Road Safety in Countries with less Developed Infrastructures: Issues and Actions to Maximize Effect with Minimum Resources
This paper focuses on the so called "soft" measures for road safety that can be recommended particularly for countries with not so advanced road infrastructure. It makes a review of the principal of these "measures" that have been found to influence road safety in European countries with lesser developed road infrastructures. The selection of the factors and the analysis that follows is based on accident statistics and their "interpretation" for the last 5 - 10 years in thirteen European countries. Particular emphasis is given to the development of long term Strategic Plans for the increase in road safety and it is stressed that good coordination among the various government departments that are involve in road safety work is fundamental.
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Corporate Authors:
Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
Linköping, Sweden SE-581 95 -
Authors:
- Giannopoulos, G A
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Conference:
- Road Safety on Four Continents: 14th International Conference
- Location: Bangkok , Thailand
- Date: 2007-11-14 to 2007-11-16
- Publication Date: 2007
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: CD-ROM
- Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 1-29
- Monograph Title: Road safety on four continents. 14th international conference, Bangkok, Thailand 14-16 November 2007. Conference proceedings
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Crash data; Highway safety; Infrastructure; Intergovernmental relations; Strategic planning
- Geographic Terms: Europe
- Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01099636
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: ITRD, VTI, TRIS
- Created Date: May 21 2008 7:09AM