Road traffic injuries are an ongoing global health burden and cause more than 1.2 million deaths per year. In Europe, the annual socioeconomic impact accounts for €130 billion. In 2011, the United Nations set a special focus on road safety and injury prevention by the proclamation of the “Decade of Action for Road Safety.” This initiative focuses mainly on developing countries. In Germany, many ...

1 Abstract Road Safety in the Context of Urban Development in Sweden and California Road safety is a serious public health issue throughout the world, with more than one million people killed in traffic accidents each year. Despite the severity of its health impacts, the World Health Organization says that traffic safety is a "neglected" topic. Perhaps this is the case in the US, where traffic ...

Despite significant progress, road transport systems continue to kill people on a scale that is comparable to cancers, cardiovascular disease, and respiratory diseases. In Queensland (Qld), Australia, there is currently a targeted focus on reducing the ‘fatal five’ behaviours underpinning road trauma. Although progress is being made, researchers have argued that a new systems thinking approach ...

To enhance communication with other road safety enforcement stakeholders involved with the heavy road transport sector SAPOL initiated and chairs an Enforcement Liaison Group. Monthly meetings are scheduled to facilitate discussion about compliance and operational issues relevant to the sector. The group comprises representatives from DTEI Safety Compliance Officers, Transport Safety Inspectors...

Rapid growth in vehicles has been observed in many developing countries in recent years. The number of vehicles has grown but non-motorized vehicles have not disappeared. The presence of dissimilar modes of travel results in unsafe roads. Additional factors that exacerbate the traffic problem in these countries are the tendency of users to not observe traffic rules and the lax enforcement of tr...