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 as the IRTAD Group. Based on the latest data, the report describes recent road safety developments in these countries and …
Walkability is a crucial first step in creating sustainable transportation in an urban environment. Effectively understanding and measuring the complex ecology of walkability has proven challenging for many organizations and governments, given the various levels of policy-making and implementation involved. In the past, Western and Eurocentric standards have permeated measurement …
Free speed, the key parameter in the modelling of pedestrian flow, is the speed that a pedestrian desires to walk at. In this study free speed of pedestrians considering characteristics such as age, gender, and with or without luggage in ascending and descending stairways located on platforms in suburban and …
Hyderabad: Could Hussainsagar Lake, the pride of Hyderabad, do with an overhaul? Or to put it nicely, a makeover? The architects in the city along with many residents, certainly feel so. The beautiful Hussainsagar Lake which was once the haven of city slickers needing a break during the day or …
The survey was conducted Thursday morning by nearly 20 road safety experts. Mumbai: A survey conducted from Worli naka to Worli sea face by road safety experts from three private organisations has found that footpaths in Mumbai are anything but pedestrian-friendly. According to the experts, sidewalks in the city are …
In the context of the Fourth UN Global Road Safety Week, WHO has released Managing speed. The document highlights that excessive and inappropriate speed is among the key risks for road traffic deaths and injuries, contributing to around one third of road traffic fatalities in high-income countries and up to …
India is committed to reduce the number of road accidents and fatalities by 50 per cent by 2020. However, road safety levels have taken a serious hit with the country witnessing one of the highest growth rates of vehicles in the world and rapid urbanisation over the years. It is …
The central business district is all set to become the city’s first vehicle-free zone from next month Connaught Place is going to become the Capital’s first vehicle-free zone from next month, and experts feel it is a step in the right direction in order to make the city more liveable …
Account for 32% of the total deaths in road accidents in city in 5 years Accidents claim precious lives on city roads. However, what is more alarming is that a large number of those falling prey to road accidents are pedestrians. During the past five years, road accidents claimed 664 …
Controversy exists about the differences in air pollution exposure and inhalation dose between mode of transport. We aimed to review air pollution exposure and inhaled dose according to mode of transport and pollutant and their effect in terms of years of life expectancy (YLE). Original Source
Lack of investment in safe walking and cycling infrastructure is contributing to the deaths of millions of people and overlooking a great opportunity to contribute to the fight against climate change, a new UN Environment report says. In Global Outlook on Walking and Cycling, UN Environment calls on countries to …
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 19 had published an article "Nrupatunga Road will be stripped of 18 trees for TenderSURE work" , exposing the …
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 (WHO), Claudia Adriazola, the Program Director (Road Safety) of World Resources Institute (WRI) said, WHO’s figures …
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 exceed the prescribed noise limits. These alterations are usually made with the specific intention of …
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 summer Paris closes the Voie Georges Pompidou between the Louvre museum and the …
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. There were several reasons for this. The prime cause was inadequately trained drivers including …
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 loudspeakers and public address systems will not be allowed between 10pm and 6am, except on certain days marked …
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 countries, official government statistics in India suggest that pedestrians comprise less than 10% of deaths. Original Source
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. The protection system would involve changes in the designs of bumper, bonnets, leading edges windshield and …
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 common sight. The court observed that many roads were dug up immediately after building them, for laying cables and …
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 world-class passenger experiences, significant economic benefits, and positive environmental impacts. BRT plays an important role in …
