Assessment of Safety on Rural Roads in Egypt

A 3-step procedure to assess road safety conditions is developed and applied to Egypt as a prototype example. Assessing road safety culture represents the first step in judging the road safety situation in a developing country. This can be represented through 14 aspects, namely: Political, Institutional, Safety Lobbying, Safety Research, Engineering, Accident Management System, Evaluation, Behavior, Legislation, Enforcement and Standards, Emergency, Education, Mass Media, Coordination and Cooperation. These were applied to describe and assess the road safety condition in Egypt. This is followed by comparing severity indicators among several countries in an effort to determine the road safety position in Egypt. The third step involved compiling and analyzing accident records for five main rural roads in Egypt. Most of the highly contributing causes are driver related including loss of control of driving wheel, over speed, misjudgment of traffic gap, sudden slowing/stoppage. Two other vehicle related causes are frequently mentioned, i.e. tire burst and vehicle turnover/turn off the road. The paper concludes by developing an integrated road safety programme composed of 16 fields of actions namely: institutional, land use planning and management, travel demand management, road infrastructure improvement, legislation, traffic-related, accident-related, vehicle-related, driver-related, traffic police-related, enforcement, educational, mass-media, community related, health-related and research-related measures. These should complement each other and work together in a supportive way to tackle the particular road safety problem.

2017

Road safety is considered an important issue by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and other global organisations which acknowledged the first steps towards reducing the annual road fatalities rate by applying global strategies. Despite the significant reduction in crash rate in the developed countries, the developing countries still has the majority of the reported road fatalities and injuries in the world. WHO has addressed the reasons behind this and some collaborated agencies started to conduct studies regarding the road safety issue in developing countries. This research will review the road safety management system in the developing countries. It will be focus on the regional scale of the problem, especially Middle East region. The results of the multi criteria analysis of the data collected from the countries profiles published by the WHO is presented. This analysis demonstrate that countries with unstable political and war condition have the worst road safety management sys...

Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2004

This paper starts by presenting a conceptualization of indicators, criteria and accidents' causes that can be used to describe traffic safety. The paper provides an assessment of traffic safety conditions for rural roads in Egypt. This is done through a three-step procedure. First, deaths per million vehicle kilometers are obtained and compared for Egypt, three other Arab countries and six of the G-7 countries. Egypt stands as having a significantly high rate of deaths per 100 million vehicle kilometers. This is followed by compiling available traffic and accident data for five main rural roads in Egypt over a 10-year period (1990)(1991)(1992)(1993)(1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999). These are used to compute and compare 13 traffic safety indicators for these roads. The third step for assessing traffic safety for rural roads in Egypt is concerned with presenting a detailed analysis of accident causes.

More than 1.2 million people die in RTAs and between 20 and 50 million people are injured in these accidents every year around the world. Road traffic accidents are a menace to both developed and developing nations, particularly to the latter. In Libya 50,000 people died because of road accidents from 1966 to 2009. For Libya, road accidents not only represent a social problem in Tripoli, but also indicate an economic problem that costs the country significant amount of money. On the average, traffic accidents in the country have led to the death of six people per day. Thus, Libya has become one of the most affected countries. This number is considered too large for a state whose population does not exceed six million people. This paper examines road accident problems in Tripoli, Libya. The methodologies adopted include desk research and primary data collection that covers accidents, as well as possible preventive measures that can be taken by operators of road transportation systems in Tripoli. The present status of the planning and evaluation of road safety, the causes of accidents and the general preventive measures are also considered. Recommendations on the procedures and interventions that must be implemented by the government to reduce the risk of traffic accidents are presented.

Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 2014

Jrsm Short Reports, 2011

Objectives This study was conducted to assess political mapping in relation to road traffic injuries (RTIs) management and prevention to present a practical model for RTIs. Design A phenomenological qualitative study was developed to identify stakeholders on RTI in Iran in 2008. Setting The designed questions were discussed by systematic discussion with the relevant specialists. After receiving written consent from the main responsible stakeholders, the questionnaire was filled in by trained experts. Themes were determined and content was analysed in each part. Participants Main responsible stakeholders. Main outcome measures By comparing other countries' political mappings which were found in the library and by Internet searching, political mapping of RTI in Iran was suggested. Results Subjects were 26 experts from governmental and nongovernmental organizations. The main proposed leading agencies were traffic police and presidency (13% each). Findings showed that only 31% of our political mapping was formed according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In 94% of cases, the involved organizations had unspecified roles; the reason was poor monitoring for RTI in 39% of organizations. Lack of adequate authority and suitable legislation, appropriate laws and tasks definition were 94% and 18%, respectively. The most essential policy to overcome problems was defined as appropriate legislation (21%), and the most frequent type of support needed was mentioned as adequate budgeting (25%). Conclusion Traffic police can play the leading agency role by government support, with strong leadership, appropriate legislation, defined tasks and adequate budget.

Recently, Loss due to traffic accidents is estimated as a percent of the GDP of the country. In Egypt recent studies show that this percent goes to be between 1 and 2% of the GDP value. Decision Makers needs to have reliable database and classification showing the recommended priority for implementing an action plan to minimize the loss due to traffic accidents. Literature review shows that there are different techniques to come with the priority list. In this research the technique adopted by GARBLT has been assessed versus to international techniques. It has been concluded that the "Relative Dangerousness Rate" is the best technique to identify the hazardous road section as it considered almost all factors such as relative cost, accident severity, traffic volume, etc. Proposed priority list based on this research for Egyptian road network is presented and recommendation to revise GARBLT technique is described.

2007

This dissertation develops, presents and tests a new international tool, the so-called Road Safety Development Index (RSDI), which indicates in a comprehensive and easy way the severity of the road safety situation in a specific country and/or in comparison with other countries. There are three pillars of outcomes involved in the framework of RSDI. One pillar is the People focus (road user behaviour). The second is the System focus (safer vehicles, safer roads, enforcement, management, etc). The third is the Product focus in terms of accident death rates. This thesis analyses each of these pillars. In addition, RSDI links the key national practices of road safety to each other and to the end-results (accident death rates). The study suggests a master-list of performance indicators to be implemented for assessing road safety level in a country and for RSDI building. Based on the “master-list”, a short key list of performance indicators is chosen and classified into two primary catego...

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013

This study presents some basic concepts for a systematic approach for formulation of a road safety improvement program in India. The numbers of road accidents are increasing at an alarming rate in India. Thus, there is an urgent need for a systematic approach to improve road safety. Road safety improvement program is a systematic approach to reduce the injuries, fatalities, deaths and loss of public properties because of road accidents. In order to develop an effective road safety improvement program, it is required to collect relevant data and analyze accident record so that hazardous locations can be identified. Further, it is required to conduct studies on identified safety hazardous locations to identify remedial measures to reduce severity and number of accidents. Further, as it is not possible to implement all remedial measures identified due to limited resources available, it is also required to determine urgency of the safety measures identified. Literature review indicated that the comprehensive accident record, essential for formulating road safety improvement program is not available. Hence, hardly any meaning full analysis is done to find out the accident hazardous location, vulnerable road users involved in accidents, causes of accident etc. which are so essential for identifying preventing measures. This study highlights the deficiencies in the present state of the art and also presents some basic concepts so that systematic approach for formulation of a road safety improvement program in India can be developed. The study presents basic concepts to develop a accident record system, for ranking of Safety hazardous locations, for identification of safety improvement measures and to determine priorities of safety measures. It is expected that this study will provide a systematic approach for development of road safety improvement program in India and thus pave the way for improving safety on Indian roads.

Highway safety is of serious concern not only to the Highway Authorities but also to the whole Nation, as they involve in loss of property and human life. Increase in vehicular growth and there by the traffic on Muscat roads is of serious concern. Even though the accidents growth rate is declaiming over the last ten years, but the number of accidents is of serious concern to the Authorities. The reasons for accidents are many folds and among them, high speeding of vehicles is the major factor contributing to the accidents. This study aimed at conducting an investigation to understand the causes of accidents for improving highway safety in Muscat. The methodology involved is discussions with the Authorities elicit the opinion of Royal Oman Police (ROP) and collection of data from ROP and field road inventory data. Also operating speeds of the vehicles during peak and non-peak hours are collected on the selected roads to validate the hypothesis. Data collected from primary and secondary sources, analysis of vehicular speed data and accident statistical data facilitated to draw conclusions for the traffic safety concerns.