Road Accident Analysis and Policy Planning in African Countries
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 2941
Special Issue Editors
Interests: road safety; sustainable transport planning; public transport systems; innovative mobility systems and vehicles; pricing schemes; cycling mobility
Interests: land transport; air transport; civil engineering; infrastructure development; logistics and supply chain management; policy development; programme planning; project development and management; regional integrations and infrastructure; strategy and strategic management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
African countries present the worst road safety conditions in the world, with fatalities rates three times higher than in Europe. Moreover, despite decreasing trends in Europe and many other areas of the world, the number of fatalities in African countries is continuously increasing, with dramatic impacts on local economies.
Relationships between fatality rates and income levels are clearly identifiable from WHO data, as well as relevant and very common risk factors, in terms of unreliable road accident data availability, poor infrastructure conditions, lack of vehicle standards and high average age, low levels of enforcement, inefficient road safety management frameworks, and unreliable post-crash emergency systems.
There is considerable focus from international institutions, such as the UN, African Union, European Union, etc., to improve the situation, introducing safe system approaches in local road safety management procedures. A main priority is represented by significant improvements in the local research and academic institutions, through dedicated actions of capacity building.
This Special Issue, entitled “Road accident analysis and policies planning in African countries”, contributes furthering understanding of local road safety conditions and the main risk factors, with a view of strategies and measures, which could lead to significant changes in the current increasing fatality trend.
We expect to present the results of studies on accident trends and characteristics, key risk categories and contexts, infrastructures, vehicles and user behavior weaknesses, safety performance indicators, assessments of road accident social costs, examples of implemented strategies and measures and their results, the transferability of good practices, and barriers to the introduction of the safe system approach and to improvements in road safety management frameworks.
Dr. Luca Persia
Dr. Robert Tama Lisinge
Dr. Dominique Mignot
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- road accidents
- injuries and fatalities
- road safety data
- social costs
- exposure
- safety performance indicators
- safe system
- transferability of good practices
- capacity building
- post-crash emergency services
