We focus on the fracking effects on fatal crashes, as measured by the impact of one more well near a road on the count of fatal crashes and the associated total and per-capita fatality and injury costs in terms of the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL). Our purpose differs from Muehle...
Fig. 2. Population, road traffic deaths and registered motorized vehicles, by country income status. (Source: WHO [5]). The income classification is according to the World Bank Indicators 2013 (Low = ≤ US$ 1045 per capita; Middle = US$ 1046 to US$ 12,745; High = ≥...
But in the developing world, traffic deaths are on the rise. Across all countries, traffic kills more than 1.2 million people a year — a number set to triple by 2030,The Washington Postreported, based on the most recent Global Burden of Disease study. Young, poor and male individuals ar...
“Sadly, this year we’ve seen the death of an eight year old and someone who was almost eighty. Unfortunately, the state of our roads means that deaths are inevitable, as bikes are regularly brought into conflict with fast-moving traffic. Despite the government finding £3bn to dual the...
Presently 70% of road traffic deaths involve motorcycle and the numbers are steadily on the rise. This is NOT a cultural issue. Education and Enforcement are essential to reversing this situation. Rodger Posted on March 20, 2019 at 07:00:43You keep saying some but not all, sorry but ...
Road deaths globally have steadily climbed in recent years with the increase in motorisation. Yet in many economically developed countries they have actually fallen. Explanations for this reduction include the role of improved vehicle and highway design, better enforcement and the impact of the economi...
It pointed out that although overall crash rates reduced, pedestrian crashes increased in some spots in the BRT corridor such as in the case of TransMilenio (Bocarejo et al., 2012), and traffic deaths more than double in Delhi. Therefore the role of BRT in mitigating RTI still requires ...
The increase in the number of private cars, combined with the increase in GDP per capita, resulted in a tremendous increase inroad trafficover the years, as illustrated inFig. 2.30(for the United States) andFig. 2.31(for the United Kingdom). However, road traffic manifests fluctuations due ...
Further, the Towards Zero Deaths National Strategy sponsored by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, the Governors Highway Safety Association and 6 trade organizations representing transporation safety professionals is based on the E’s,and notes it’s importance for ...
Fig. 3. Road traffic deaths per 100,000 population in the surveyed countries: comparison of each country's statistics and WHO estimates (left) and each country's statistics by age group (right). Fig. 3 (right) depicts the number of road traffic deaths per 100,000 population based on each...