Publications Routes/Roads Road safety
This page lists Routes/Roads articles of PIARC in the field of road safety. These publications are classified chronologically.
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Road safety: Policies, Strategies and Action Campaigns
The internationalization of the road safety issue is no longer open to debate. Roadrelated risks must now be addressed across all continents, although the extent of risk mitigation varies tremendously. Should the numbers of victims be expressed per capita or should analyses actually segment by victims, major variations can indeed be observed. Such discrepancies are known to decision-makers, as underscored by Roberto Arditi, in his introduction on low and middle-income countries.
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Road safety impact bonds - A financial business case
Initial feasibility and pilot studies are underway and the paper provides an update on progress worldwide and in particular ongoing work in Victoria, Australia.
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Justifying road safety investments for locations without collisions by quantifying road safety risk
This article describes the rationale and methodology that was developed for ICBC's Proactive Road Safety Program.
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Lay-bys and protection against lateral obstacles in tunnels
The present article summarizes the contents of a report soon to be published on the World Road Association's Website.
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New Zealand - Evaluating a package of interventions to improve young driver safety
New Zealand's road safety strategy to 2020, Safer Journeys [Ministry of Transport 2010], has as one of its goals a reduction in the fatality rate of young people. In 2007/08, the fatality rate for young New Zealanders in road crashes was 21 per 100,000 population. Half of these fatalities were drivers. By comparison, the equivalent rate in Australia was 13 per 100,000 population.