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The ITF Road Safety Annual Report 2022 provides an overview of road safety performance for the 42 countries participating in the International Transport Forum's permanent working group on road safety, known as the IRTAD Group. Based on the latest data, the report describes recent road safety developments in these countries and compares their performance against the main road safety indicators. Detailed country profiles are available for download from the ITF website: https://www.itf-oecd.org/road-safety-annual-report-2022.

Traffic safety. --- Traffic safety

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This guide provides advice on 'What Works and What Does Not Work' in road safety, with a focus on interventions that can be used by those working in low- and middle-come countries (LMICs). While the intended audience is primarily those working in LMICs, it is likely that the information will be of relevance in all countries. The contents will be valuable to those working on road safety at the policy or practitioner level, including World Bank Technical Team Leaders and those in client countries seeking to establish or expand road safety programs. The guide introduces the topic of road safety interventions, a summary of findings, and references for more detailed information. The document sets knowledge within a 'Safe System' context and highlights the need for an evidence-based approach across Safe System components. At the core of this guide is a summary table with an overview of beneficial and nonbeneficial interventions. This is supported in an appendix with more detailed information, including case studies and reference to the evidence base to support the summary. In this guide, effective interventions are defined as those that reduce fatal and serious injuries. The most effective interventions are those that substantially reduce or eliminate these injuries. Ineffective interventions therefore are those interventions that do not reduce these injuries. The focus of the guide is on intervention effectiveness in terms of this fatal and serious injury reduction, and not on issues such as cost, public acceptability, period of benefit (treatment or service life), or related issues. Although intervention effectiveness should be a main driving force when selecting road safety solutions, these other issues also need to be considered. For example, an economic analysis comparing the costs for interventions and their likely benefits (or savings in crash costs) is important to ensure that interventions are cost-effective and that limited resources are invested in the most beneficial solutions. Information has not been provided on this aspect of effectiveness in this guide as this analysis is context specific (for instance, the cost of interventions may vary substantially between countries or even different road environments within a country).

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The IRTAD Road Safety Annual Report 2019 provides an overview of road safety performance for 41 countries. The report outlines the most recent road safety developments there and provides comparative data for the main road safety indicators. It also offers detailed analysis by road user, age group and types of road. It describes the crash data collection process in IRTAD countries, the road safety strategies and targets in place and information on recent trends in speeding, drink-driving and other aspects of road user behaviour.

Traffic accidents. --- Traffic safety.

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Walking is the most natural form of mobility; however cities have not always evolved to accommodate the needs of pedestrians and walking has in many cases been neglected in the development of transport systems. Improving the pedestrian environment can contribute significantly to meeting the challenges of climate change, air pollution and health. This report aims to present decision-makers with hard evidence on the important place of walking in transport policies and provide guidelines for developing a safe environment conducive to walking. This is an essential contribution to creating liveable cities. Every single trip begins and ends by walking.

Traffic safety. --- Traffic regulations.

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The World Bank estimates a significant funding gap in road safety of 260 billion to achieve SDG 3.6 and 11.2 in the next ten years, and recognizes that this gap cannot be closed through public funding alone and thus mobilization of private capital is required. The impacts of road traffic crashes reach far into the economy and can cost L/MICs as much as 6% of their GDP. The costs of a road traffic crash do not end at the roadside; they create ripple effects throughout the wider economy. Loss of income, property damage, insurance premiums, loss of taxes, and burdens on the health sector are just some of the far-reaching costs associated with road traffic crashes. Road traffic crashes can cost countries as much as 6 percent of their GDP and trap families in poverty as they lose income generating potential and focus on providing lifetime care. This report examines the potential for private capital mobilization to close this gap.

Traffic safety. --- Accidents --- Prevention.