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Journal of Road Safety, 2008 The Australian news media typically portrays road crashes as “accidents” involving human tragedy.The pattern is all too familiar: scenes of mangled wreckage, an ambulance leaving the scene, an interview with emergency service personnel who describe the ...
Steve Jiggins
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BMJ, 2005 Is part of the broader development process > We must now use every day to act on road safety, and implement effective sustainable action to prevent injury and death on the world's roads. Dr Lee Jong-wook, director-general, World Health Organization T he World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention notes that political will and commitment are ...
Meleckidzedeck, Khayesi, Margie, Peden
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Road Safety Efficiency on Interurban Roads in Spain
Evaluation Review, 2023 The slowdown in economic development caused by traffic accidents in Spain, together with the disparity in the risk of death or injury due to traffic accidents in its provinces, makes it necessary to evaluate their road safety performance. Therefore, the objectives of the present research are, on the one hand, to find out the level of road safety ...
Ángel Tejada +2 more
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Infrastructures, 2023 High quality data on road crashes, road design characteristics, and traffic are typically required to predict crash frequency. Surrogate Safety Measures (SSMs) are an alternative category of indicators that can be used in road safety analyses in order to
Dimitrios Nikolaou +8 more
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Increase road safety or reduce road danger: challenging the mainstream road safety discourse
Traffic Safety ResearchCorrection has been made to the article e000043, vol. 5, 2024, https://doi.org/10.55329/vfer7646 (published on 5 March 2024, updated on 18 March 2024).
Marco te Brömmelstroet
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Comparative Evaluation of Road Safety Level and Geometric Design Consistency [PDF]
Journal of Engineering, Project, and Production Management, 2023 This paper investigates road safety levels and geometric design consistency in a road network in Greece concerning road alignment characteristics. Published literature has proved that road accidents and road safety, in general, are directly connected to ...
Antonios Panas +2 more
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BMJ, 2004 Health professionals have an important role in implementing measures to reduce deaths and injuries on the roads As many as 50 million people each year may be injured in road traffic crashes globally—a total representing the combined populations of Beijing, Delhi, London, Paris, and New York.1 Without increased safety effort to match the growing ...
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CAUSES ANALYSIS OF SERIOUS ROAD ACCIDENTS IN ROMANIA [PDF]
Annals of the University of Petroşani. Mechanical Engineering, 2023 Improving road safety is a priority at both international and national level, and reducing deaths and injuries in road accidents has been set as a goal by both the United Nations and the European Union.
Sorin Mihăilescu
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Roads and Bridges, 2020 The article presents a general description of the state of road safety in Poland in the years 2010-2019, taking into account the safety of pedestrians, who belong to the most vulnerable road users.
Leszek Kornalewski +2 more
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Tools for road infrastructure safety management in poland
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2017 Road safety can be improved by implementing principles of road safety infrastructure management (RIS) on the network of European roads as adopted in the Directive.
Kustra Wojciech, Michalski Lech
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