Supporting Documents
Supporting Documents are intended as resources, such as guidelines, handbooks and other supporting materials, aimed at providing guidance on the various areas of the road safety function.
Rural Transport Service Indicators: Guidelines to the methodology
The survey methodology described in the document drew upon the World Bank publication on the rapid assessment of rural transport services (Starkey, 2007a). As well as the rapid rural appraisal
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Developing Indicators to Assess Rural Transport Services
This document reports lessons and recommendations from a 12‐month project to develop indicators to ‘measure’ how transport services were meeting the access needs of rural people.
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Guidelines for the development of road safety master plans
The purpose of the guidelines is to provide an overview of the process of developing, implementing and maintaining road safety master plans as applied by the City of Tshwane in South Africa. The process described in these guidelines has been refined through experience with a number of projects.
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League of Arab States Truck Accident Causation Feasibility Study (IsDB, 2013)
The Truck Accident Causation Feasibility Study helps national governments to identify actions contributing to the reduction of truck accidents and/or their seriousness, to improve road safety and to develop effective national road safety legislation.
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Rural Transport Health and Safety in Sub-Saharan Africa (AFCAP, 2014)
This project was initiated by the African Community Access Programme (AFCAP) to establish a foundation for new research themes aimed at enriching the understanding of how rural transport impacts the health of local communities in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
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Road Safety in Africa (TOI, 1997)
The report identifies the key measures that may lead to sustained reduction in the number of road accident fatalities and personal injuries as well as reduction of material damages caused by road accidents in African countries.
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Costs of crashes in South Africa (Road Traffic Management Corporation, 2016)
The “CoC 2016” study endeavours to provide the instrument for the consistent valuation of the total cost of Road Traffic Crash to the South Africa.
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Road Safety in Africa-Assessment of Progresses and Challenges in Road Safety Management System (AfDB, 2013)
The objective of the study is to obtain information on country road safety legal and institutional issues, technical and managerial capacity, financing and performance of road safety programmes (if existent).
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Africa Road Safety Review (TRL, 2000)
This review analyses existing data and information on the road safety situation in Sub Saharan Africa in order to identify the data gaps and priority needs.
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The Road Safety Cent: Management and Financing of Road Safety in Low-Income Countries
This document focuses on the financing of road safety management and intervention in low-income countries, and provides policy-makers with financial tools and strategies to help fund national road safety strategies and agendas.
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Cost Benefit Analysis - Summary
This web-text describes the use of cost-benefit analysis to assess the impacts of road safety measures. It describers the main steps that are taken in a cost-benefit analyses and which measures are most cost effective. European Commission, Cost Benefit Analysis, European Commission, Directorate General for Transport, October 2016.
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Integration of Road Safety in Other Policy Areas: Synergies and Conflicts - Summary
This web text looks at what integration means in relation to several policy areas and examines three key policy areas in more detail: employment, environment and health. These topics were chosen as they arguably have the strongest links to road safety policy. Other issues are then discussed and they represent a second tier of policy areas […]
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Road Safety Management
The focus of this web text is on good practice institutional management functions and processes which provide the foundation of the road safety management system. The text addresses the importance of good road safety management and knowledge about effective ways to improve road safety in countries. Issues like recent developments and results, integration with other […]
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Road Safety Management Capacity Reviews and Safe System Projects Guidelines
The core guidelines present a pragmatic approach to overcoming the institutional capacity barriers impeding the implementation of the World Report recommendations;
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Monitoring and evaluating the Decade of Action for Road Safety (WHO, 2014)
The UN General Assembly, in Resolution 64/255, requested World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations regional commissions to coordinate regular monitoring of the progress toward achieving the goal of the Decade by tracking indicators against which progress can be systematically measured.
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Transport for Health: The Global Burden of Disease from Motorized Road Transport (WB, 2014)
This report quantifies the global health loss from injuries and air pollution that can be attributed to motorized road transport. Source: Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF); Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
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Global status report on road safety (WHO, 2015)
The Global status report 2015 outlines the major risks for road traffic injuries and provides baseline information and data that allow monitoring international policy processes that set road safety targets.
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