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.

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.

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.

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.

Implementation of Australia's new road crash risk assessment approach

The Australian National Risk Assessment Model (ANRAM) provides road agencies in Australia with a nationally-consistent system for the identification; measurement and reporting of severe crash risk. ANRAM helps road agencies manage this risk through the development of treatment programs aimed at reducing fatal and serious injury (severe) crashes. Such programs support the objectives of the national and state road safety policies seeking to eliminate fatal and serious injuries. This Safe System vision [...]