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https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27432/critical-issues-in-transportation-for-2024-and-beyond

Global road safety : promising routes to further improvements : roles for the FIA, its Member Clubs and other stakeholders.

Worldwide, over 1.2 million people are killed in traffic each year and another 20 to 50 million are seriously injured. Road traffic injuries are estimated to be the eighth leading cause of death globally. If no action is undertaken, in 2030 road traffic injuries will be the fifth leading cause of death. It was within this framework that the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) commissioned SWOV to perform a study to identify successful strategies to put and keep road safety on the political agendas throughout the world, and to identify promising routes to further improvements. A special emphasis in this study is on the roles of the FIA and its Member Clubs. The present report is intended to be a reference document for the three main products of the study: 1. A road safety advocacy brochure targeted at national high level decision and policy makers, highlighting the need and the opportunities for action in the road safety area; 2. A report on the role of the international community in improving global road safety and the challenges for the (near) future; 3. A website, targeted at FIA member clubs and other national stakeholders, with concise and easily accessible information to inspire them to take relevant and effective action in various ways. Being a reference document, this report serves multiple goals and target groups. It provides an overview of the current global road safety situation as well as past and ongoing international initiatives. It also provides an analysis of further opportunities and challenges for the international community. Finally, the report describes the potential role of FIA clubs and other stakeholders in national road safety activities, and gives an overview of the main road safety principles as well as of possible actions and interventions. Among other things, it may be concluded that during the last decade a remarkable number of initiatives have been taken or have been intensified. A wide variety of public and private organizations have been involved. There are indications that the number of fatalities is decreasing in quite a few countries worldwide. However, in order to meet the target set in the Plan of the Decade of Action - 50% lower than the anticipated 1.9 million fatalities in 2020 - road safety must be put higher on the political agenda, both nationally and internationally, and receive more funding to do justice to the size of the problem, also in comparison with the funding of other important health problems such as HIV/aids, malaria and tuberculosis. Furthermore, a tenpoint action plan is proposed, including: Bridging the implementation gap; Upscaling road safety initiatives; Including road safety as a Sustainable Development Goal; Improving road safety data quality; Monitoring progress and evaluating interventions; Gaining support to bridge the funding gap; Ensuring massive capacity building in low and middle income countries; Building a knowledge base in a ‘clearing house’; Carrying out national policy reviews; Strengthening awareness raising and advocacy efforts.

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  • Features: References;
  • Pagination: 99 p.

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 01570443
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety, SWOV
  • Report/Paper Numbers: D-2013-9
  • Files: ITRD, SWOV
  • Created Date: Jul 21 2015 9:42AM