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Africa Road Safety Review

Africa Road Safety Review

FHWA-SA-01-008
December 2000


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Summary
Chapter 1 - Introduction
1.1 Background
1.2 Scope of work
Chapter 2 - Methodology
2.1 Data Collection
2.2 Literature Review
2.3 Report Structure
Chapter 3 - The Current Situation
3.1 Estimating Road Deaths in Africa
3.2 Reported Fatality Rates and Risk
3.3 Motorisation Levels
Chapter 4 - Trends In Fatalities and Licensed Vehicles
4.1 Trends in fatalities
4.2 Trends in vehicle ownership
4.3 Population Growth Rates
Chapter 5 - Crash Characteristics
5.1 Urban crashes
5.2 Road casualties
5.3 Crash characteristics
5.4 Contributory factors
Chapter 6 - Economic Cost of Road Crashes in Africa
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Crash costing in Africa
Chapter 7 - Literature Review Summary
7.1 Development initiatives
7.2 Road safety management
7.3 Funding
7.4 Road safety partnerships and community participation
7.5 Crash data system
7.6 Crash costing
7.7 Road safety engineering
7.8 Traffic regulations and law enforcement
7.9 Traffic safety education for children
7.10 Road safety publicity
7.11 Medical services
7.12 Impaired road use
7.13 Research
7.14 Motor vehicle insurance
Chapter 8 - Conclusions and Recommendations
8.1 Sectoral Needs Analysis
8.2 Crash data
8.3 Road Sector Development Programmes
8.4 Road safety engineering
8.5 Funding
8.6 Community Participation
8.7 Collaborations and Partnerships
8.8 Monitoring and Evaluation
8.9 Central Road Safety Reference System
8.10 Vulnerable road user safety
8.11 Professional drivers
References
Appendices
Appendix A - Estimating road fatalities in Africa
Appendix B - Trends in fatalities, vehicles and population
Appendix C - Literature review
Appendix D - Contact database
List of Tables
Table 3.1 - Road safety summary statistics
Table 3.2 - Estimated road deaths for the year 2000 with under-reporting adjusted
Table 3.3 - Distribution of estimated road deaths, motor vehicles and population
Table 5.1 - Urban share of road crashes and population
Table 5.2 - Road fatality by casualty class
Table 5.3 - Urban road casualties
Table 5.4 - Age distribution of road deaths
Table 5.5 - Socio-economic characteristics of pedestrians
Table 5.6 - Crash involvement
Table 5.7 - Vehicle type involvement
Table 5.8 - Contributory factors
Table 6.1 - Estimated costs
Table 7.1 - Model traffic safety policy
Table A.1 - Estimated costs
List of Figures
Figure 3.1 - Global distribution of road deaths
Figure 3.2 - East Africa Fatality Rates
Figure 3.3 - Southern Africa Fatality Rates
Figure 3.4 - Central Africa Fatality Rates
Figure 3.5 - West Africa Fatality Rates
Figure 3.6 - East Africa Fatality Risks
Figure 3.7 - Southern Africa Fatality Risks
Figure 3.8 - Central Africa Fatality Risks
Figure 3.9 - West Africa Fatality Risks
Figure 3.10 - East Africa Motorisation levels
Figure 3.11 - Southern Africa Motorisation levels
Figure 3.12 - Central Africa Motorisation levels
Figure 3.13 - West Africa Motorisation levels
Figure 4.1 - East Africa Road Fatalities
Figure 4.2 - Central Africa Road Fatalities
Figure 4.3 - Southern Africa Road Fatalities
Figure 4.4 - West Africa Road Fatalities
Figure 4.5 - East Africa - Changes in registered vehicles from Baseline 1992
Figure 4.6 - Southern Africa - Changes in registered vehicles from Baseline 1992
Figure 4.7 - Central Africa - Changes in registered vehicles from Baseline 1992
Figure 4.8 - West Africa - Changes in registered vehicles from Baseline 1992
Figure 5.1 - Vulnerable road user fatalities


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