AFRICA ROAD SAFETY REVIEW
FINAL REPORT

by Dr G Jacobs and A Aeron-Thomas(TRL Limited)

PR/INT/659/2000

Customer: US Department of Transportation/Federal Highway Administration

Report Cover
Summary
1. Introduction
1.1	Background
1.2	Scope of work
2. Methodology
2.1	Data Collection
2.2	Literature Review
2.3	Report Structure
3. The Current Situation
3.1	Estimating Road Deaths in Africa
3.2	Reported Fatality Rates and Risk
3.3	Motorisation Levels
4. Trends in Fatalities and licensed vehicles
4.1	Trends in fatalities
4.2	Trends in vehicle ownership
4.3	Population Growth Rates
5.  Crash characteristics
5.1	Urban crashes
5.2	Road casualties
5.3	Crash characteristics
5.4	Contributory factors
6. Economic Cost of Road Crashes in Africa
6.1	Introduction
6.2	Crash costing in Africa
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
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
9. 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
Tables
3.1	Road safety summary statistics
3.2	Estimated road deaths for the year 2000 with under-reporting adjusted
3.3	Distribution of estimated road deaths, motor vehicles and population
5.1	Urban share of road crashes and population
5.2	Road fatality by casualty class
5.3	Urban road casualties
5.4	Age distribution of road deaths
5.5	Socio-economic characteristics of pedestrians
5.6	Crash involvement
5.7	Vehicle type involvement
5.8	Contributory factors
6.1	Estimated costs
7.1	Model traffic safety policy
Figures
3.1	Global distribution of road deaths
3.2	East Africa Fatality Rates
3.3	Southern Africa Fatality Rates
3.4	Central Africa Fatality Rates
3.5	West Africa Fatality Rates
3.6	East Africa Fatality Risks
3.7	Southern Africa Fatality Risks
3.8	Central Africa Fatality Risks
3.9	West Africa Fatality Risks
3.10	East Africa Motorisation levels
3.11	Southern Africa Motorisation levels
3.12	Central Africa Motorisation levels
3.13	West Africa Motorisation levels
4.1	East Africa Road Fatalities
4.2	Central Africa Road Fatalities
4.3	Southern Africa Road Fatalities
4.4	West Africa Road Fatalities
4.5	East Africa-- Trends in licensed vehicles
4.6	Southern Africa--Trends in licensed vehicles
4.7	Central Africa--Trends in licensed vehicles
5.1	Vulnerable road user fatalities

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