Guidelines for Mainstreaming Road Safety in Regional Trade Road Corridors
The global crisis of road traffic injury is escalating in low-income and middle income countries to devastating effect; with road traffic crashes a leading cause of death. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 1.24 million people were...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/06/18127874/guidelines-mainstreaming-road-safety-regional-trade-road-corridors http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16281 |
| Summary: | The global crisis of road traffic injury
is escalating in low-income and middle income countries to
devastating effect; with road traffic crashes a leading
cause of death. The World Health Organization (WHO)
estimates that 1.24 million people were killed on the
world's roads in 2010 and between 20-50 million more
suffer non-fatal injuries from road traffic collisions each
year. Among young people aged 15-44 years, road traffic
crashes are the second leading cause of death after
HIV/AIDS. The guidelines presented here are an important
contribution to addressing the challenge of road safety
management in regional trade corridors. Developed jointly by
the Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Program (SSATP) and the
World Bank, they are intended to serve as a guide for
mainstreaming road safety in regional trade corridor
investment programs in developing countries. The guidelines
present a roadmap and set of tools with templates for terms
of reference to assist in the identification, preparation
and implementation of effective road safety projects in
regional trade corridors, based on the lessons and global
best practice experience. The publication outlines a
systematic and logical process for directly addressing
priority road safety needs on regional corridors in a
streamlined and iterative manner, that will be relevant not
only within Africa, but also to other developing regions of
the world. |
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