How Bogotá is harnessing leadership to redefine road safety and save lives
From May 6-12 2019, the United Nations celebrated the fifth iteration of its Global Road Safety Week with the theme of leadership. The topic highlights the role that elected leaders have in enforcing and implementing...Read more
Road safety is an essential component in sustainable urban mobility
In European cities, pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists make up 70% of road deaths. This is according to the European Transport Safety Council, who are authors of a new report. The report also states tackling urban...Read more
Is your city serious about road safety? Look for these 3 things
Thirty-six people died in traffic crashes in Washington, D.C., last year, a 20% increase from 2017. Eight people, six of whom were walking or biking, have already been killed this year, prompting a major public rally...Read more
In Tanzania’s capital, safer children mean better neighbourhoods
Chaos often reigns on the streets of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s capital. Minivans, cars and motorcycles careen along half-finished roads without markings, sidewalks or traffic lights. Pedestrians walk single-file within reach of speeding vehicles. Groups...Read more
Lessons from Flanders: school traffic safety in four steps
The Belgian municipality of Hoogstraten is making primary school routes safer. The municipality won the Flemish Road Safety Award 2019 last month and they are in the process of redesigning the area around eight schools....Read more
Child road casualties double in Bangladesh
In Bangladesh the Child Rights Advocacy Coalition reported that 627 children were casualties of road accidents in 2018. Meaning the number of child casualties almost doubled from the previous year. This has led to school...Read more
Redesigning one of Mumbai’s most dangerous intersections in 3 simple steps
While India accounts for only 2 percent of global motor vehicles, it contributes over 12 per cent of global road traffic deaths. Around 150,000 people lose their lives on India’s roads every year, making them...Read more
Why we need a summit on youth urban road safety
Our cities are rapidly expanding, and with them motorization is increasing at an unchecked pace. Unless the global community takes meaningful strides to address the impact of these trends on the most vulnerable in our...Read more
Six road design changes that can save lives
Urbanisation is by and large a good thing, corresponding with steady declines in extreme poverty. More compact cities may also hold the key to a sustainable future. But this trend has come with a side effect: more...Read more
Dhaka: how speeding bus drivers sparked a student insurrection
2Traffic jams – or “janjot”, as locals call them – are a fundamental part of life in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Sometimes the slowness of the traffic can give you a sense of claustrophobia,...Read more
Cities ‘must act’ to help cut 350,000 annual child road deaths
Governments and city leaders are being urged to act on a report which says road traffic accidents and air pollution are killing over 350,000 children globally every year. Countries around the world are aware of the...Read more
Increasing child road safety with the 2020 Action Agenda
Halving child road deaths in the next five years is a key aim of the 2020 Action Agenda, a global plan of action signed by Governments around the world. It is a product of the...Read more
Proposed act aims to make roads safer for Mexican children
A new proposed law in Mexico seeks to define the hierarchy of street users in order to reduce the number of casualties of young children killed in road accidents. The new proposed law would also address...Read more
Transport policy needs to break free from the bias of engineers
In this second of her two-part essay on the need for cross-disciplinary approaches to street design and traffic management, Lucy Marstrand points to evidence of an innate bias towards roads – over pedestrian and cycle...Read more