Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal on Halving Road Deaths and Injuries: Impacts and the Role of Infrastructure
12 September 2016

Philippines

Among one of the most challenging targets under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is the target to halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents by 2020. The inclusion of road safety in the SDGs is belated recognition that road crashes lead to appallingly high numbers of death and debilitating injury, which places a huge cost to development, society, and the economy. This interactive workshop examined the safety and economic benefits of achieving the said SDG target and assessed the role that road infrastructure can play in advancing road safety.

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal on Halving Road Deaths and Injuries: Impacts and the Role of Infrastructure was a Preforum Training on Road Safety held during ADB Transport Forum 2016. Click here to view the ADB Transport Forum 2016 main event page and materials in k-Learn.

Program and Learning Materials
Session / Activity Title Speaker(s)
Presentation Introduction - Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal on Halving Road Deaths and Injuries: Impacts and the Role of Infrastructure
Understand the relationship between road design and risk. Learn why achieving the sustainable development goal target for road safety is important…
Greg Smith
Presentation Star Rating - Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal on Halving Road Deaths and Injuries: Impacts and the Role of Infrastructure
Risk factors, sometimes called crash modification factors (CMF), are used by International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) in its methodology to…
Greg Smith
Presentation Sustainable Development Goal - Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal on Halving Road Deaths and Injuries: Impacts and the Role of Infrastructure
Targets like those reflected in the global sustainable development goals are important because they provide strategic focus for road safety. Research…
Greg Smith
Presentation Case Studies - Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal on Halving Road Deaths and Injuries: Impacts and the Role of Infrastructure
The International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) is used for setting road safety targets, assessing existing road networks and tracking…
Greg Smith

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Event Coordinator/s

  • Diana Marie Hernandez-Louis

ADB Organizer/s

  • Transport Sector Office

Topics

  • Social Development and Protection
  • Transport