Road safety is a major international health issue – every year an estimated 1.25 million people are killed on the world’s roads and up to 50 million people incur non-fatal injuries. Despite the scale of the human cost, road safety has historically been given low priority, with interventions having a highly technical focus and often targeting the safety of relatively low risk groups. This is beginning to change, however, with the development of a series of global targets and a new systems approach to road safety challenges. This report develops a political approach to understanding road safety issues that compliments emerging approaches, using analysis of existing literature on road safety issues and interventions. It concludes by setting out a methodology for analysing these challenges at the city level that will be piloted by Overseas Development Institute and World Resources Institute in three cities over the course of 2017.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/political-economy-road-safety-policy-oriented-literature-review
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/joseph-wales
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/overseas-development-institute
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/traffic-accidents
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/public-transport
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/road-transport
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/vehicular-safety
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/urban-transport
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/global
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mumbai
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/colombia
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/kenya
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/congestion