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Road traffic safety refers to the methods and measures used to prevent road users from being killed or seriously injured. Typical road users include pedestrians, cyclists, motorists, vehicle passengers, and passengers of on-road public transport (mainly buses and trams). Best practices in modern road safety strategy:
The Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety is a collection of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that implement programs and lobby for road safety initiatives around the world. [1] As an umbrella organization, it currently represents more than 200 member NGOs from 90-plus countries.
He has published hundreds of articles and book chapters and was co-editor of the Handbook of Injury and Violence Prevention.; [2] Injury and Violence Prevention: Behavioral Science Theories; [3] Derryberry’s Educating for Health; [4] and the international prize-winning World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention.
The Road Safety Fund [25] was created to raise funds for activities which contribute to the implementation of the national plans for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011–2020. The Fund raises financial contributions from corporations, the general public and other donors.
Following the dedication of World Health Day in April 2004 [2] to the issue of road safety and the launch of the World report on road traffic injury prevention on that day, the United Nations General Assembly (through UN resolution 58/289 ) [3] invited the World Health Organization (WHO), working in collaboration with the United Nations regional commissions, to act as the coordinator of global ...
Make Roads Safe is a global road safety campaign established with the aim of securing political commitment for road traffic injury prevention around the world.. The Make Roads Safe campaign played a leading role in arguing for and securing the first-ever United Nations Ministerial Conference on global road safety, which was approved by the UN General Assembly on 31 March 2008 and was held in ...
Modern Road Safety makes a distinction between the situation and the management systems necessary to control it, with prevention activities that largely exceeds the self-evident fields of the traditional 3 E (Engineering, Enforcement, Education) approach, first introduced in 1925.
Systematic motor-vehicle safety efforts began during the 1960s. In 1960, unintentional injuries caused 93,803 deaths; [5] 41% were associated with motor-vehicle crashes. In 1966, after Congress and the general public had become thoroughly horrified by five years of skyrocketing motor-vehicle-related fatality rates, the enactment of the Highway Safety Act created the National Highway Safety ...