Economic, socio-political and environmental risks of road development in the tropics

M Alamgir, MJ Campbell, S Sloan, M Goosem… - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
It is projected that 25 million km of new paved roads will be developed globally by 2050—
enough to encircle the planet more than 600 times. Roughly 90% of new roads will be built …

Road safety in low-income countries: state of knowledge and future directions

S Heydari, A Hickford, R McIlroy, J Turner, AM Bachani - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Road safety in low-income countries (LICs) remains a major concern. Given the expected
increase in traffic exposure due to the relatively rapid motorisation of transport in LICs, it is …

Understanding the potential of emerging digital technologies for improving road safety

ME Torbaghan, M Sasidharan, L Reardon… - Accident Analysis & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Each year, 1.35 million people are killed on the world's roads and another 20–50
million are seriously injured. Morbidity or serious injury from road traffic collisions is …

Socio-economic assessment of shared e-scooters: do the benefits overcome the externalities?

R Félix, M Orozco-Fontalvo, F Moura - Transportation research part D …, 2023 - Elsevier
Shared e-scooters are a trending mobility service and are usually advertised as a
sustainable transport mode which could improve urban transport. However, there are …

[HTML][HTML] Cutting social costs by decarbonizing passenger transport

R Maier, A Posch, C Proß, S Plakolb… - … Research Part D …, 2023 - Elsevier
Major efforts are still needed to decarbonize passenger transport. To do so, a combination of
improved technologies, a shift towards public transport, cycling and walking and the …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of random forest and support vector machine regression models for forecasting road accidents

A Gatera, M Kuradusenge, G Bajpai, C Mikeka… - Scientific African, 2023 - Elsevier
One of the world's concerns today is the rate of road traffic accidents (RTA). The
overwhelming majority of these accidents occur in low and middle-income countries. RTA …

Personality traits and attitudes toward traffic safety predict risky behavior across young, adult, and older drivers

F Lucidi, L Girelli, A Chirico, F Alivernini… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In the last few decades, several studies have investigated the role of personality traits and
attitudes toward traffic safety in predicting driving behaviors in diverse types of drivers across …

An analysis of official road crash cost estimates in European countries

W Wijnen, W Weijermars, A Schoeters… - Safety science, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper gives an overview of official monetary valuations of the prevention of road
crashes, road fatalities and injuries in 31 European countries. The values have been made …

Preventing wildlife roadkill can offset mitigation investments in short-medium term

F Ascensão, DR Yogui, MH Alves, AC Alves… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Wildlife vehicle collisions (WVC) are a threat to wildlife and humans, killing millions of
animals of numerous species, as well as causing significant damage to vehicles, drivers and …

Quantitative analysis of the social costs of road traffic crashes literature

T Bougna, G Hundal, P Taniform - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite recent improvements in tackling road safety challenges, particularly in developed
countries, road traffic crashes account for 1.35 million deaths annually and cost over 65 us …