Safety : Why Safety Matters for Sustainable Mobility
Safety is one of four global goals identified in the Global Mobility Report (GMR)—along with universal access, efficiency, and green mobility. The safety goal is aimed at curbing the human pain, suffering, loss, grief, and economic costs of transpo...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/457761537381808044/Safety-Why-Safety-Matters-for-Sustainable-Mobility http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30486 |
| Summary: | Safety is one of four global goals
identified in the Global Mobility Report (GMR)—along with
universal access, efficiency, and green mobility. The safety
goal is aimed at curbing the human pain, suffering, loss,
grief, and economic costs of transport-crash-related
injuries and deaths. The scale of the safety problem is
profound across all transport modes, including air, rail,
road, and water. Safety efforts need to be focused on Low-
and Middle- Income Countries (LMICs), where 90 percent of
the 1.4 million transport crash deaths occur each year. The
inclusion of road safety in the Sustainable Development Goal
targets has created opportunities for an increased global
commitment. Nevertheless, to date there has been no
overarching effort to set an overall target for safety of
mobility and to collect reliable global data on transport
safety across all modes. To increase the momentum, the GMR
sets targets for global transport safety aimed at setting a
unified transportation safety goal. |
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