Improving Road Safety
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 The model takes the road network as its frame of reference. The interventions are directly
associated with the road network and have strong spatial dimensions. The difference
between this approach and models based on safer roads, safer vehicles and safer people is
that these are placed specifically in the network context where injury related crashes occur.
The model focuses on safety interventions to prevent network failures and near failures as is
the case with, for example, air transport.
The World Bank and WHO report (Bliss & Breen, 2009) provides implementation guidelines for
road safety management capacity review projects. As mentioned earlier, an important
consideration in applying the model is that a fundamental understanding of the current road
safety situation and climate in the particular country is needed.
shows the implementation stages recommended by the guidelines. Ideally each
member country in the OIC should follow these implementation guidelines in assessing and/or
establishing road safety management systems. As mentioned, the review process uses a series
of checklists (see Appendix 2) as a basis for collecting the required data. The checklists have
been generalised and designed to cover all the aspects described by the road safetymanagement
model. There are 11 checklists covering aspects relating to the results, interventions and
institutional management functions. A twelfth checklist has been designed to assess the
performance and role of a lead agency.
The current project is aimed at assessing the state of road safety management in member
countries of the OIC. Due to a limited budget, full scale capacity reviews as described by the
World Bank guideline (as depicted by are not possible and the review will for the
largest part be based on a review of current practice as described in available (English)
documentation supplemented by questionnaires and interviews in a select number of countries.
However, the process described by the World Bank guideline provides the evaluation
framework for the study although the evaluation in this study will be at much lower level of
detail. The purpose is an illustrative comparison of the state of road safety management at a
fairly global level across OIC member countries, across OIC regions and with non-OIC member
countries that are considered to practice state of the art Road Safety Management. For this
reason an overview of the World Bank approach is provided as the backdrop against which this
review is provided.