Road safety annual report 2023
The Road Safety Annual Report 2023 provides an overview of road safety performance for the 43 countries participating in the International Transport Forum’s permanent working group on road safety, known
Pedestrians
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Greens to hug trees to protest BBMP's tree-chopping plan
BENGALURU: Environmentalists and citizens will hit the Nrupatunga Road on Friday morning and embrace the 18 trees marked for felling to facilitate TenderSURE works by the BBMP recently. TOI on September
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City roads in India unsafe for pedestrians, cyclists': World Health Organisation
BHUBANESWAR: Traffic related fatalities in the country have increased by 4.6 percent in 2015 resulting in the death of over two lakh persons. Quoting the figures from a report by the World Health Organisation
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Fat fines for tinkered vehicles with jarring sound
PUNE: Those who have made alterations to their vehicles so that it makes more noise may soon have to pay hefty fines as the government is looking at imposing heavy penalties on such modifications that
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Drivers fume as Paris turns right bank of Seine into park
Paris plans to turn a stretch of highway on the right bank of the river Seine into a pedestrian zone in an attempt to reduce pollution despite protests from drivers. Every Sunday and for much of the
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Unreal licence test: 235 pedestrian deaths recorded in Hyderabad
RTA’s driving licence test checks only 3 of 24 parameters listed in MV Act. Hyderabad: Hyderabad has recorded 235 pedestrian deaths up to July 2016, compared to 455 in all of 2015 and 420 in 2014.
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Strictly implement noise pollution rules during fests, Bombay High Court tells state
You may get to enjoy comparatively lesser noise during the forthcoming festivals. The Bombay High Court has asked the state government to strictly implement the noise pollution rules and has held that
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Official government statistics of road traffic deaths in India under-represent pedestrians and motorised two wheeler riders
<p>Reliable data on traffic deaths are important for planning road safety programmes and evaluating progress. Although pedestrians comprise approximately 40% of traffic deaths in low-income and middle-income
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Pedestrian safety score may be must for new car models
The government will ask auto companies to equip all their future car models with frontal protection system to reduce the number of road fatalities in the event of a front-end collision with a pedestrian.
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HC orders restoration of broken footpaths on a war footing
KOCHI: Expressing concern over the inordinate delay in repairing damaged footpaths in the city, the Kerala High Court on Monday observed that pedestrians struggling to walk on footpaths had become a
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The BRT Standard 2016
The BRT Standard is the centerpiece of a global effort by leaders in bus transportation design to establish a common definition of bus rapid transit (BRT) and ensure that BRT systems more uniformly deliver