Early road safety policies placed considerable emphasis on information and publicity effort, generally used in isolation and without much success, to try and persuade users to behave safely. These gave way in several countries in the 1970s and 1980s to increasingly successful strategies recognising the need for infrastructure, vehicle and user measures and targeting, systematically, evidence-based interventions at crash prevention, reducing injury severity and post crash care. In the 1990s, this systems approach was refined further, to one that recognised speed control and human limitations - both behavioural and physical - as core issues for the design and operation of the road traffic system. Growing acceptance that serious public health loss from road traffic injury is a feature of poor traffic system design and operation represents a major shift in professional understanding about what has to be done to avert the worsening global traffic injury crisis and to enhance performance in safety management. (Author/publisher) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E211954.
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