Regional Road Safety Seminar and the APRSO Annual Meeting

Globally, road traffic crashes cause nearly 1.3 million preventable deaths and an estimated 50 million injuries each year. 

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GRRSO Dialogue on Powered Two-Wheeler Safety and APRSO Annual Meeting

Event Details 

On 11-13 October 2022, the Global Regional Road Safety Observatories (GRRSO) Dialogue on Powered Two-Wheeler Safety (11-12 October) and Asia-Pacific Road Safety Observatory (APRSO) Annual Meeting (13 October) will be held in ADB Headquarters, Manila, Philippines. 

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Webinar Series: Safer Road Infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific – 5 Sessions, February 2022

Road Safety webinar series Feb 2022

REGISTRATION IS OPEN
DATES: 08, 10, 15, 17, 24 February 2022
TIME: 2.00PM – 4.00PM (UTC+8) Manila, Philippines
Free of charge

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Cost of Fatalities and Serious Injuries Cost as % of country GDP

 
 

Road accidents inflicts high economic costs. This ratio considers economic costs of road accidents with GDP (SEC-SEG-001).

Deaths by Road User Category - motorised 2/3W

 
 
Reported distribution of road traffic deaths by type of road user type - Motorised two wheelers including electric two wheelers is considered here.

Cost of Fatalities and Serious Injuries

 
 

Road accidents inflicts high economic costs. This indicator reports economic costs of road accident injuries in USD.

Asian Transport Outlook Database

 
 
ADB has initiated the Asian Transport Outlook (ATO) to strengthen the knowledge base on transport in the Asia-Pacific region. The ATO is developed in support of the planning and delivery of ADB Transport Sector Assistance. At the same time, the ATO supports ADB's Developing Member Countries in transport policy development and delivery.

CASE STUDY: Upskilling traffic police officers to tackle speeding in the Philippines

150 traffic police officers are now trained in speed enforcement, which could lead to deterring an estimated 30,000 speeding drivers.

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Meeting the Global Road Safety Performance Targets: Case Studies from Pakistan and the Philippines

ADB is hosting a special knowledge-sharing webinar that will feature presentations on two road safety case studies that support achievement of the Global Road Safety Performance Targets, and will showcase examples of the key concepts and approaches that will be featured in the upcoming Road Safety Capacity Building Programme to be sponsored by ADB's Transport Sector Group.

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APRSO Annual Meeting Day 2: APRSO member countries set to appoint National Data Coordinators

Day two of the Asia Pacific Road Safety Observatory’s first annual meeting was entitled ‘Country Experiences in Collecting, Analyzing & Managing Data’ and kicked off with a case study from the Philippines where, since the introduction of distracted driving laws, the number of crashes attributable to this cause has plummeted from 773 in 2017 to just 26 in 2019.

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