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Publications Routes/Roads Road safety

This page lists Routes/Roads articles of PIARC in the field of road safety. These publications are classified chronologically.

  • Philippine initiatives towards safer roads: a'safe system' approach

    On 10 May 2010, the UN General Assembly proclaimed the period 2011-2020 as the Decade of Action for Road Safety. Its goal is to stabilize and reduce the forecast level of global road fatalities by 2020 through increased activities conducted at national, regional and global levels.

  • Progress in Indonesia on infrastructure improvement

    In Indonesia the number of road fatalities continues to increase. According to the Indonesian Traffic Corporation, the number of fatalities in 2012 peaked at 31,234. The cost associated with traffic accidents in 2010, in terms of lost productivity, was about 3% of national GDP, or about IDR 210 trillion. This figure includes infrastructure damage, medical expenses, and loss of income.

  • Road transportation safety policies and measures in South Korea

    As of the end of 2012, the area of South Korea was 100,208 km 2 and its population was 50,950,000 with 90.9% of the population living in urban areas. The length of the Korean road network at the end of 2012 was 109,930 km, including 4,044 km of expressways; 79.8% of the roads were paved. Whilst there is a general trend for the length of the road network to increase, the rapid increase in the number of registered vehicles (3.6 million in 1990 to 18.87 million in 2012) means that the amount of [...]

  • Road safety in REAAA countries - Overview

    In June 2001, the World Road Association and the Road Engineering Association of Asia & Australasia (REAAA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to serve as a basis for a future structured cooperation. The MoU was updated in 2009 to better reflect the increased level of cooperation and mutual understanding sought by both associations. Several initiatives have taken place since the revised MoU was signed, the most recent being the joint World Road Association/REAAA/IRDA (Indonesian Road Development [...]

  • A comprehensive approach for road safety exemplified by the State of Brandenburg 1991-2012

    This article describes the successful actions led to reduce the number of traffic victims to a fatality rate of 6.6 within 20 years.