EIB & IRAP Plan to halve road deaths by 2030

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EIB & IRAP Plan to halve road deaths by 2030

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From Highway & Network Management / February 21, 2020
Plans to halve road deaths by 2030
Which begins:
  • A new plan aims to halve road deaths by 2030
    The European Investment Bank (EIB) has entered a partnership with the NGOs leading Road Assessment Programmes (RAP) in a bid to halve road deaths by 2030. The aim is to reduce the toll of deaths and injuries, much of it in developing nations. At present around the 1.35 million people/year are killed on the world’s roads.

    The EIB and the European Road Assessment Programme (EuroRAP), the International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP), and the Road Safety Foundation (RSF) have all joined forces. They will support investment in national and regional “safer road” projects and to develop the analysis and skill sets needed to make investment in safer road infrastructure successful.

    “We aim to finance road projects that will help to save lives and prevent serious injuries. The reward both in humanitarian and in economic terms is huge,” said EIB Group vice-president Lilyana Pavlova, responsible for the bank’s transport operations. ”We, therefore, need to provide not only finance but also access to the required advice, training and skills to develop large scale safer road investment programmes. We all need to work closely together to improve safety on our roads. That is why we are delighted to enter this partnership with the RAP organisations.”
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Re: EIB & IRAP Plan to halve road deaths by 2030

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The link above was from Linkedin and had a exchange with some people on the topic and searched for and came across international historical data.
The link OECD Road Accidents Historical Data includes an interactive chart where you can plot the road accident death data for any and many countries.
Here is a sample of some of the countries:
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Simply visit the site: OECD Road Accidents Historical Data
and your can see the reduction in most of the countries with data (seom data goes back to 1970).
It it interesting to note that at least one of the countries with date have an increasing death rate:
India
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Looking at the population of India from World Population Growth, additional investigation to the cause in the increase in the death rate in India, and any other country with increasing death rates in vehicle accidents, is warranted.
  • Friends who recently visited India in early 2020 stated the roadways and driving are "crazy, dangerous and packed"!
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Re: EIB & IRAP Plan to halve road deaths by 2030

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in some back and forth exchanges on Linkedin an interesting article was presented and some other links i will repeat here
Some may require you be member of Linkedin...
  • Asian Road Safety - Decades of doing the wrong things ever better
    which includes
    • In Thailand: "20 to 80 fatalities a day with 80% of them motorcyclists die on Thailand's roads. For comparison at the opposite end, the UK having a similar population size but the average is around 3 people die on the roads each day. Around 20% of total road fatalities being motorcyclists."
    • "Thailand has the same population size as the UK but 15 times the number of registered motorcycles. "
    • "The most common motorcycle accident on the planet is the right-of-way error at a junction. The simple issue of a turning vehicle not seeing an approaching rider. So common it also has an acronym the SMIDSY (Sorry Mate I Didn't See You). This does not change anywhere Australia, USA, UK, Europe, India, Thailand, Japan, still exactly the same accidents happening for the same reasons."
Some other links posted up which may be of interest
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