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Cycling, Health and Safety
Many jurisdictions around the world are trying to retain or increase the share of cycling in urban traffic in order to benefit
from the many health and transport efficiency benefits. Safety is a key concern and should be accounted for in these policies.
This report of the International Transport Forum's Cycling Safety Working Group monitors international trends in cycling,
safety and policy, and explores options that may help decision makers design safe environments for cycling. Key messages
relate to strategic goal-setting for cycling policy and managing crash risks while increasing health benefits. The report also discusses
how to better capture crash and bicycle usage statistics. The safety impacts of a wide range of pro-cycling measures are examined in detail.
248 pages; OECD, Paris,
December 2013
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Sharing Road Safety: Developing an International Framework for Crash
Modification Functions
Almost 1.3 million people die in road crashes every year, and between 20 and 50 million are injured. Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death among young people between 15 and 29 years of age. Road crashes cost countries between 1 and 3 per cent of their GDP. In the face of these facts, the need for effective road safety policies is undeniable.
Governments can more effectively improve road safety by making better use of indicators that reliably quantify the reduction of crashes due to interventions in the road-traffic system. According to the study, lack of quantifiable evidence about the effects of countermeasures – such as roadway signage, pedestrian crossing treatments, roadway geometric features, etc. – on road crashes is a key obstacle to the advancement of many critical, life-saving road safety initiatives.
Through the use of indicators - so-called Crash Modification Functions (CMF) that provide measures of how interventions affect the number and gravity of road crashes - governments can reduce the risk of taking decisions that have little or no impact on improving road safety.
Dr Steve Lawson, Partnerships and Research Director, International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) comments: “This is a pathfinding report that reinforces the importance of understanding the effectiveness of road safety countermeasures – it will be useful to practitioners, researchers and policy-makers alike. iRAP’s work towards enabling a world free of high risk roads relies heavily upon reports such as this where best-in-field come together to establish the theoretical framework and add available knowledge to that.”
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132 pages; OECD, Paris, December 2012
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Pedestrian Safety, Urban Space and Health
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.
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116 pages; OECD, Paris, August 2012
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ISBN 978-92-821-0365-4
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Reporting on Serious Road
Traffic Casualties: Combining and using different data sources
to improve understanding of non-fatal road traffic
crashes
This special International Road Traffic and
Accident Database (IRTAD) report was prepared by a
Working Group on Linking Police and Hospital Data
with a view to identify and assess methodologies for
linking different sources of accident data in order
to develop better estimates of the real number of
road traffic casualties.
108 pages; OECD/ITF, Paris, December 2011
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Car Fleet Renewal Schemes:
Environmental and Safety Impacts
France, Germany
and the United States
Many governments have subsidised fleet renewal schemes to stimulate consumer spending on cars during economic downturns.
Subsidies are often linked to the environmental performance of vehicles, but how effective is accelerated fleet renewal
in reducing emissions and can schemes be designed to improve the safety of cars on the road?
This report examines three of the largest programmes introduced in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, in France,
Germany and the United States. It investigates the impact of 2.8 million transactions trading-in old cars for new
on CO2 and NOx emissions and on road safety. It assesses value for money and identifies critical design elements
for success in meeting environmental and safety objectives. The results of the analysis provide guidance for
the design of any future schemes.
71 pages; ITF/ FIA, Paris, June 2011
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Drugs and Driving: Detection and Deterrence
Driving while impaired by drugs - whether licit or illicit - has emerged as an important road
safety issue.
This report provides a state-of-the-art review of the role and impact of drugs in road accident risk.
It reviews the legislation, deterrence and roadside detection practices in member countries as well as
preventive measures to combat drug use while driving.
It provides recommendations on strategies to adopt in addressing this issue.
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110 pages; OECD, Paris, November 2010
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Safety and Regulatory Reform of Railways
Does deregulation reduce rail safety? Many countries have envisaged or implemented pro-competitive regulatory
reforms of their rail sectors. Concerns have been voiced regarding the impact of these reforms on rail safety
performance, especially in cases of reforms that have privatised or deregulated state ownership and control
of railways.
This report addresses these concerns with a detailed investigation of pre- and post- reform rail safety data
in countries where complete and comparable data exists.
55 pages; OECD, Paris, October 2010
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Transport Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Country Data 2010
This report provides a brief update of greenhouse gas emission trends from the transport sector and discusses
the outcome of the United Nations Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change held
in December 2009 in Copenhagen. It is based on material collected for the OECD-ITF Joint Transport Research
Committee's Working Group report on GHG emission reduction strategies which will be released later in 2010.
The report besides providing data on Co2 emissions of ITF Member Countries also includes data on certain non-ITF economies.
94 pages; OECD, ITF, May 2010
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Improving Reliability on Surface Transport Networks
Passengers and freight shippers alike want reliable transport services. Surprisingly, little research has been
undertaken in incorporating reliability into the assessment of transport projects despite the increasing importance
of scheduling in economic activities.
This report provides policy makers with a framework to understand reliability issues, to
incorporate reliability into project assessment and to design reliability management policies.
It also explores a range of reliability performance measures. Case studies across OECD and ITF countries provide examples
of several core policy tools that can be used to deliver more reliable networks in a cost-effective manner.
The report makes significant progress in identifying appropriate methodology for incorporating reliability into policy and
project evaluation, as well as exploring the pitfalls that need to be avoided.
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108 pages; OECD, Paris, April 2010
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Effective Transport Policies for Corporate Mobility Management
Many companies and other large employers have put in place initiatives to address the
traffic-related nuisances generated by their activities and, in particular, the traffic
generated by their workers and customers.
Such Corporate Mobility Management (CMM) initiatives are the focus of this report which investigates success factors in individual
best practice cases at the company level as well as the roles, if any, public
authorities can play in facilitating the uptake of CMM.
The report provides guidance to governments on effective strategies for addressing and mitigating the traffic generated
by commuter and customer travel.
108 pages; OECD, Paris, April 2010
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Towards Zero: Ambitious Road Safety Targets and the Safe
System Approach
Many countries have set targets to reduce the number of
casualties on their roads.
Are these countries on track to meet their targets? What can be done in the
immediate and longer term to achieve these targets? Is there a limit to traditional
approaches to road safety?
This report takes stock of recent developments and initiatives to meet increasingly
ambitious road safety targets. It highlights the management changes required in
many countries to implement effective interventions. It emphasises a strong focus
on results and examines the economic case for road safety investment. It challenges
the better performing countries to do more and strongly recommends the adoption of
a Safe System approach with a long-term vision of no
fatalities on the roads.
242 pages; OECD, Paris, October 2008
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Long-life Surfaces for Busy Roads
Long-life surfaces could substantially cut the costs of road works, including the delays they cause,
especially on congested routes with heavy traffic. These surfaces use new materials
that cost more than conventional asphalt and require special handling.
This report presents the results of collaborative research to evaluate the technical and economic potential
of the most promising long-life surfaces and assist governments in weighing up the risks and advantages of
introducing them on busy roads.
186 pages; OECD, Paris, May 2008
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Transport Infrastructure Investment: Options for
Efficiency
Surface transport plays a fundamental role in nearly all social and
economic activity. Providing and maintaining the infrastructure
consumes enormous resources. Thus, it is essential that this be
carried out in the most efficient and effective way possible.
Many options are available to provide surface transport infrastructure -
public ministries and agencies, public-private partnerships (PPPs),
state-owned companies, private and non-profit entities, and outright
privatisation. There are also various means of paying for it, including
user charging, subsidies, public borrowing or private financing.
This report examines key principles that should be considered by
governments in deciding how to provide and pay for surface transport
infrastructure, with a view to best serving societies' needs and
employing public resources. It also considers the key issues that must
be resolved in making more use of private financing and expertise.
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