Forecasting Indian road traffic casualties : guidance to prioritize road safety technologies and regulations

India accounts for 11% (nearly 150,000) of global road traffic deaths and its fatality rate is 22.6 per 100,000 people, almost three times higher than that of the European region. India is committed to reducing fatalities and has signed the Stockholm declaration to halve the fatalities by 2030. Fatality reduction can be achieved through various countermeasures. To prioritise between various countermeasures, it is important to understand future road safety challenges and to predict the effectiveness of these countermeasures, e.g. the impact of pre-crash safety technologies and recently implemented vehicle safety regulations. firstly, the effectiveness of state-of-the-art pre-crash safety technologies for different road users in India was investigated using simple deterministic rules; one optimistic and one conservative rule for each safety technology, to identify future safety gaps. Secondly, the effectiveness of recently implemented vehicle safety regulations was estimated and used to characterise remaining crash. Since both these studies found that the proportion of crashes involving Powered Two-Wheelers (PTWs) will remain high, the final study identified the most frequent crash configurations of PTWs.

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  • Accession Number: 01844815
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
  • Files: ITRD, VTI
  • Created Date: May 6 2022 5:07PM