Problem: In many LMICs the organizational structure of the management system may suffer from deficiencies. These deficiencies are weakening the institutional functions across key road safety players. In addition, subpar measurement and reporting systems may mean that crash data suffer from significant underreporting.

Solution: Adopting country-wide management systems is crucial to improving country/jurisdictional road safety performance.

Recommendation: To ensure road safety management and leadership and to build road safety expertise, LMICs should develop a strong leading agency and a robust set of local guidelines and regulations.

Read More:

• Road Safety Manual - Road Safety Management (Safety Management System)
• Road Safety Manual - Road Safety Management (Target and Strategic Plans)

Problem: Fatalities and serious injuries are an unacceptable consequence of people’s mobility and the design of our road transport systems across the whole world.

Solution: The development of an effective road safety strategy starts from the notion of the Safe System approach, to prevent fatal and serious crashes. The Safe System approach considers that the transport environment should be intuitive and forgiving, so that fatalities and injuries can be mitigated or avoided altogether. Building awareness of Safe System possibilities and application is a critical step especially for LMICs.

Recommendation: An efficient management system and leadership body are essential for the implementation of an effective road safety improvement program. In addition, the promotion of that the Safe System approach can only be built on the understanding of common, shared responsibility amongst authorities, motorists, enforcement agencies and all stakeholders overall.

Read More: Road Safety Manual - Road Safety Management (The Safe System Approach)

Problem: The success and effectiveness of road safety lead agencies (RSLAs) in coordinating preventative road safety interventions in developing countries is dependent on the existence of lead agencies with full-time expert staff, legally endowed powers, permanent funding, political support, and access to relevant data.

Solution: Set out a performance management framework for the delivery of interventions and their outcomes, delivered primarily by the Government Agencies with core road safety responsibilities in government partnerships with civil society and business, with the support of research and professional community.

Recommendation: LMICs should exercise caution in establishing complex targeted strategies and plans until data and appropriate management capacity are available. They should allow support and power to but also enforce good oversight on the agencies

Read More:

• Road Safety Manual - Planning, Design & Operation (Roles, Responsibilities, Policy Development and Programmes)
• Proceedings of the PIARC International Seminar on: “Road Safety in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Issues and Countermeasures”

Problem: Achieving global and national road safety goals and targets requires appropriate managerial capacity.

Solution: Adopt institutional management functions ensuring: coordination, legislation, funding and resource allocation, promotion, monitoring, analyzing and evaluation, as well as research, development and knowledge transfer and dissemination with the wider public.

Recommendation: Define expected results, as the desired safety performance endorsed by government at all levels, stakeholders and the community, and communicate with them at all levels exploiting the relevant feedback loops.

Read More:

• Road Safety Manual - Strategic Global Perspective (Scope of the Road Safety Problem)
• Road Safety Manual - Road Safety Management (Safety Data)