Better road markings can boost safety for road users.
There is currently a strong focus on traffic safety in Europe with a number of programmes intended to reduce the overall number of crashes on roads and cut the statistics for injuries and fatalities. In the first EU programme implemented between 2001 and 2010, the goal was to halve the number of people killed in road crashes. Most EU countries showed significant improvement over the decade and a few countries met or even exceeded this target of 50% r
Construction of the Via Salis, the Czech Republic’s first public-private partnership for a road project, is on schedule, according to VINCI which is leading the construction and operating consortium.
The IRF Geneva said that India has the dubious distinction of claiming the highest number of fatalities by road crashes. More than 10% of road-related deaths occur in India alone, and this poses a serious challenge, being the major killer of young and productive lives.
While India’s infrastructure programme is being lauded all over the world and high rate of growth has been achieved for the 1.25 billion strong democracy, a significant 3% of the GDP is lost every year due to the uncontrolled and unmanaged
Organised by the International Road Federation (IRF Geneva) a day before the official opening of the 18th IRF World Meeting, a Transport Ministers Forum was held in Delhi, India on 13th November 2017.
Highlighting how the rise in road accidents is increasing the burden on healthcare in low and middle-income countries including India, Union health minister J P Nadda said about 48% of hospital beds in surgical wards are occupied by road traffic injury patients in these countries.
Nadda said road traffic de
