Second Workshop of the Asia-Pacific Road Safety Observatory (APRSO)

The Asia-Pacific Road Safety Observatory (APRSO) is proposed by a group of international development organizations, The World Bank, Fédération Internationale de l' Automobile (FIA), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the International Transport Forum (ITF) and The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), with support from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the GRSF (using funding from UK Aid).

The APRSO, which aims to become the regional forum for road safety data, policies and practices across Asia and the Pacific will provide a platform for decision-makers from countries in Asia and the Pacific to learn more on the importance of crash data, but also to foster the development of a synergistic environment to empower countries to collect useful and timely information to address the ongoing road safety epidemic.

The development partners organized the Second Workshop towards the establishment of The Asia-Pacific Road Safety Observatory (APRSO) on 3-4 December 2019 in Bangkok. The workshop focused on: a) clarifying the mission of APRSO, b) reaching consensus among countries on how to make APRSO as an interactive forum to share experiences, data, and information, c) identifying next steps on how to achieve short-term and long-term outputs, including a road safety database. The workshop was attended by government officials from 17 countries, multilateral development banks (MDBs), bi-lateral donor countries and multiple international development agencies related to road safety.

The second workshop was a follow-up to the first Workshop on APRSO which was hosted by the World Bank in Singapore on 20-21 March 2019 which was attended by government officials from 15 countries and other stakeholders related to road safety.

The relevant documents from the March meetings are provided for reference.

Support Materials

• Agenda
• Information Note

Additional Documents

• Minutes of the APRSO meeting, Singapore, March 20-21, 2019
• Draft recommended crash-related minimum data set and data sources
• Draft APRSO Governance
• Summary of Comments on Governance Structure of APRSO
• Summary of Comments on Draft recommended crash-related minimum data set and data sources

Presentations

• Asia Pacific Road Safety Observatory overview - ADB
• Sample structure of National Road Safety Observatories - FIA
• Outline of the APRSO work plan - ITF
• Minimum set of road safety indicators - MIROS
• Thai Govt's approach to data collection - Thai Government
• National Road Safety Observatory in Viet Nam - NTSC Viet Nam
• Status of Road Safety in the Asia-Pacific Region - ESCAP
• Measuring road safety progress - GSRP
• Data to support Management of Powered Two-wheeler Risks - IRAP
• Data and Analytics for Assessing the Needs of Vulnerable Road Users - AltaGO