D3.5 - ROAD SAFETY INTERVENTIONS INITIATIVES

Abstract

According to the Global Status Report on Road Safety 2018 (WHO, 2018b), the number of road traffic injuries claimed 1.35 million lives in 2016. Based on the WHO regions, road traffic fatality rates are increasing in the African region from 26.1 fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants in 2013 to 26.6 fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants in 2016. Therefore, the African region is the worst performing WHO region. Over the same period, there was an improvement in road fatality rates in the WHO Europe region. Road traffic injury in Africa is even expected to worsen further, with an increasing of 55% in road traffic fatalities over the period from 2016 until 2030 (WHO, 2018c). SaferAfrica project aims at establishing a Dialogue Platform between Africa and Europe focused on road safety and traffic management issues. It will represent a high‐level body with the main objective of providing recommendations to update the African Road Safety Action Plan and the African Road Safety Charter, as well as fostering the adoption of specific initiatives, properly funded. The first main objective of work package 3 is to assess the implementation of the Action Plan 2011–2020 (AU‐UNECA, 2010). This assessment has been supported by SWOT and PESTEL analysis completed at different geo‐political scales (continental, regional economic communities/corridors and country) and is described in deliverable 3.1. The second main objective of work package 3 is to define initiatives for different topics (i.e., road safety policies, road safety and traffic management, capacity building and other road safety interventions). Those initiatives are designed to foster the implementation of the Action Plan and to contribute to a better situation in terms of road safety. The final aim is to prepare information to support the discussions with the Dialogue Platform Management Board. This deliverable deals with the operational dimension of the “Level/Layer” matrix and more specific, the elaboration of initiatives about road safety interventions. Hereby, road safety interventions have been defined as actions designed to target consciously chosen safety improvement objectives within the road safety system (Wilpert & Fahlbruch, 2002). The categorisation of the road safety interventions is made based on the traditional five pillars used by the UN (2011). The road safety interventions in this report were selected based on the needs described in the capacity reviews of WP5, the applicability to the African continent and the concreteness of the road safety intervention. The described road safety interventions in this report serve as a guideline for the implementation of some concrete initiatives within the pillars of safer roads and mobility, safer vehicles, safer road users and post‐crash response. Of course, they will need some specific adaptations and adjustments to the characteristics of the country or region where they would be implemented.