Road safety annual report 2023
The Road Safety Annual Report 2023 provides an overview of road safety performance for the 43 countries participating in the International Transport Forum’s permanent working group on road safety, known
Traffic Accidents
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Study Says Small-Car Buyers Sacrifice Safety
Consumers who buy minicars to economize on fuel are making a big tradeoff when it comes to safety in collisions, according to an insurance group that slammed three minimodels into midsize ones in tests.
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Micro-level traffic planning programme yielding results: Mahali
Coimbatore: The micro-level traffic planning study programme and golden hour trauma care through networking of private hospital ambulances with the city police control room was yielding results in terms of fatal accident rate showing a marginal decline, said Police Commissioner K.C. Mahali on Tuesday.
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Mobility for development
This latest report is on the state of mobility in Bangalore, Dar es Salaam, S
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Road kill
Accounts for 22 per cent of accidental deaths in children Around 950,000 minors worldwide die every year due to injury and violence About 87.4 per cent of these are categorized unintentional (accidental) injuries Each day, 2,274 children die due to unintentional injuries (road accidents, drowning, poisoning, burns and falls) Poor children in low-income countries are at
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Road safety in India: challenges and opportunities
This report was designed to analyze the traffic safety situation in India, and to identify countermeasures for areas in which the total harm caused by crashes can be substantially and readily reduced. The report focuses on two aspects of traffic safety in India: challenges and opportunities.
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Policy paper for pedestrian movement in the Bangalore metropolitan region
This policy paper is devised with intent of creating a framework for regulating and co-coordinating programs as well as actions by various stakeholders such that there is increased comfort, convenience and safety to the pedestrians and their movement.
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Unravelling myths about subsidies in urban transport: a case study of Pune
This paper by Prayas Energy Group exposes the hidden subsidies enjoyed by users of cars and two wheelers, thus marginalizing the needier sections. It uses a case study of urban transport in Pune to show that a bus user is much less subsidized than a car or a two-wheeler user.
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BRT blocked; ply buses on left only, say residents
Residents of Madangir in south Delhi blocked the traffic at the Pushpa Bhawan crossing on the pilot Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor on Monday morning, inconveniencing scores of commuters headed to work. The protesters demanded that the bus lanes throughout the corridor should be shifted to the extreme left of the road.
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Bhangagarh flyover opens
In what is expected to mitigate the vehicular traffic woes on the busy Guwahati-Shillong Road to a considerable extent, the much-awaited earthquake-resistant flyover in city's Bhangagarh area was finally thrown open to public here this morning. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today formally inaugurated the 647.58-metre
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Left, right
If there are many left turns on a road, then a bus lane on the extreme left will hamper other traffic turning left or turning into traffic. It also means that every time the bus has to stop for