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Ould Khou SID’AHMED Economic Affairs Officer Transport Division, UNECE, Geneva

UNECE TRANSPORT STATISTICS AS A TOOL FOR ROAD SAFETY International Road Safety Symposium, Making Roads Safe...Towards Zero Fatalities on the Road, Great Arsenal, Chania, Crete, October 29th 2008. Ould Khou SID’AHMED Economic Affairs Officer Transport Division, UNECE, Geneva.

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Ould Khou SID’AHMED Economic Affairs Officer Transport Division, UNECE, Geneva

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  1. UNECE TRANSPORT STATISTICS AS A TOOL FOR ROAD SAFETYInternational Road Safety Symposium, Making Roads Safe...Towards Zero Fatalities on the Road, Great Arsenal, Chania, Crete, October 29th 2008 Ould Khou SID’AHMED Economic Affairs Officer Transport Division, UNECE, Geneva

  2. Global Road Safety CRISIS • About 1.3 million people killed and more than 50 million injured every year • It is a global issue, it is a health, social and economic hazard UNECE Transport Division

  3. What UNECE can do for road safety? UNECE Transport Division

  4. UNECE Instruments to improve road safety SOCIAL RULES TRAFFIC RULES VEHICLES ROAD AND TRAFFIC SIGNS INFRASTRUCTURE DRIVERS’ LICENSE - Tunnel safety DANGEROUS GOODS STATISTICS UNECE Transport Division

  5. The intergovernmental Forum on road safety • Working Party on road traffic safety: WP.1 • Convention on road traffic Vienna conventions • Convention on road signs and signals • Consolidated resolutions 1-2 (Best Practice) • Country initiative for reforms • Global Road Safety Conference in Russia, 2009 UNECE Transport Division

  6. United Nations legal instruments for road safety • 1949 Geneva Convention on Road Traffic and Protocol on Road Signs and Signals • 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Traffic • 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals • 1971 European Agreements supplementing the Vienna Conventions UNECE Transport Division

  7. Most Conventions already have close to global coverage BUT: How well are they followed-up? How well can we monitor their implementation? How well can we get feed-back to further improve them? UNECE Transport Division

  8. CONVENTION ON ROAD TRAFFIC, 1968 Objectives: • To facilitate international road traffic • To increase road safety …Through internationally agreed traffic rules and the reciprocal recognition of documents issued in conformity with those rules. UNECE Transport Division

  9. CONVENTION ON ROAD SIGNS AND SIGNALS, 1968 Objectives: • To facilitate international road traffic • To increase road safety …Through internationally agreed road traffic signs and signals. UNECE Transport Division

  10. CONVENTION ON ROAD SIGNS AND SIGNALS,1968 DANGER WARNING ROAD SIGNSEquilateral Triangle, White or Yellow Ground, Red border UNECE Transport Division

  11. 1968 CONVENTION ON ROAD SIGNS AND SIGNALS, REGULATORY ROAD SIGNSCircular, White or Yellow Background, Red Border UNECE Transport Division

  12. CONVENTION ON ROAD SIGNS AND SIGNALS,1968 INFORMATIVE ROAD SIGNSRectangular, Blue or Green Background, White or Yellow Rectangle with Sign UNECE Transport Division

  13. Danger warning signs – equilateral triangle, ground white or yellow, border red 1 UNECE Transport Division

  14. Regulatory signs – circular, white or yellow background with a red border UNECE Transport Division

  15. Informative signs – rectangular, blue or green background, bearing a white or yellow rectangle with sign UNECE Transport Division

  16. Dangerous goods transport UNECE Transport Division

  17. Vehicles UNECE Transport Division

  18. UNECE Transport Division

  19. UNECE Transport Division

  20. Infrastructure UNECE Transport Division

  21. UNECE and the e-road network UNECE Transport Division

  22. Drivers UNECE Transport Division

  23. AETR: Driving and rest time of drivers • From analogue to digital tachograph: deadline 2010 June 16. • Alignment issues with the EU Regulation UNECE Transport Division

  24. UNECE TRANSPORT STATISTICS DATABASE AS A TOOL FOR ROAD SAFETY UNECE Transport Division

  25. COLLECTION, DISSEMINATION AND METHODOLOGY • Collection and dissemination of transport statistics, including data on motor traffic, road traffic accidents and rail traffic. • Common methodologies to facilitate and improve the collection of information on road and rail traffic flows and infrastructure parameters through surveys and censuses. UNECE Transport Division

  26. Main activities • Statistics of Road Safety (Questionnaire on Road Traffic Accidents) • Glossary of transport statistics • Development and maintenance of the on-line UNECE Transport Statistics Database • Common questionnaire • Recommendations to Governments on motor traffic and rail traffic censuses UNECE Transport Division

  27. Dissemination of Transport Statistics • Publications • Annual Bulletin of Transport Statistics (ABTS) • Statistics of Road Traffic Accidents in Europe and North America • Maps and data on E Road/E Rail Traffic Censuses • Online database UNECE Transport Division

  28. UNECE Transport Division

  29. Main Road Safety Indicators (1) • Number of Persons Killed or Injured in Road Traffic Accidents; • Road Traffic Accidents by Accident Type, Location, Country and Year; • Road Traffic Accidents by Accident Type, Day of Week, Country and Year; • Road Accidents by Accident Type, Light Condition, Country and Year; UNECE Transport Division

  30. Main Road Safety Indicators (2) • Road Accidents Involving One or More Persons under the Influence of Alcohol by Accidents; • Pedestrians and Drivers, under the Influence of Alcohol, Involved in Accidents by Pedestrians or Category of Drivers; • Road Traffic Accidents in Built-up Areas Involving Personal Injury by Accident Type, Nature of Accident. UNECE Transport Division

  31. Fatalities per 100000 inhabitants, 2005 UNECE Transport Division

  32. ROAD FATALITIES PER MILLION INHABITANS 2005 UNECE Transport Division

  33. Evolution in EU-27/FatalitiesSource: CARE (EU road accidents database) UNECE Transport Division

  34. UNECE Transport Division

  35. Number of road accidents/injured in road accidents for Greece UNECE Transport Division

  36. Number of fatalities in road accidents for Greece Transport Statistics for road safety UNECE Transport Division

  37. Conclusions • UNECE has several areas to improve road safety • WP.1 is our focal point for road safety • UNECE Transport Statistics Database: a modern tool for road safety (online, disaggregated, time series) UNECE Transport Division

  38. All our products are on the web Publications Brochures Newsletters UNECE Transport Division

  39. THANK YOU!UNECE Transport Division Sustainable Transport SectionWorking Party on Transport Statistics (WP.6)http://www.unece.org/trans/main/wp6/wp6.html Ould Khou SID’AHMED stat.trans@unece.org

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