A DECADE OF ACTION TOWARD ZERO DEATHS: A WORLDWIDE PLAN FOR ROAD SAFETY AND THE U.S. HIGHWAY SAFETY STRATEGY CASE STUDY

摘要

Worldwide, 1.3 million people die annually on the roads. Deaths will increase to 1.9 million by 2020. The FIA Foundation helped establish the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety (2011-2020), which incorporates a Safe Systems approach with the goal of reducing projected deaths by half, saving 5 million lives in 10 years. With 43,000 U.S. deaths annually, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) spearheaded in 2007 a national goal of halving the current number of fatalities in two decades. Now AASHTO is taking the effort further with their many federal, state and local safety partners by developing Toward Zero Deaths (TZD), a data-driven 25 year strategy. This paper presents the strategies of the Decade and TZD for use by PIARC members from developing and developed countries for policy formulation, institutional framework-building, countermeasure implementation, and social marketing. Evidence-based interdisciplinary collaboration is essential to success in every PIARC member country. The collaborative, evidence-based frameworks for the Decade and TZD built support among stakeholders. The Decade‘s Five Pillar Plan is mirrored by results of the TZD stakeholder meeting in August 2010, where experts in infrastructure, enforcement, technology, education, emergency medical services, and public health worked on high-payoff strategies.