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Development of the European road safety knowledge system

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posted on 2017-03-03, 09:43 authored by George Yannis, Pete Thomas, Nicole Muhlrad, Heike Martensen, Letty Aarts, Petros Evgenikos, Eleonora Papadimitriou
This chapter presents the European Road Safety Knowledge System, which was developed within the Data Collection Transfer and Analysis (DaCoTA) research project of the 7th Framework Program of the European Commission. This knowledge system includes a number of components, concerning data and tools, road safety issues and countries. A three-step methodology was adopted for the development of this European Road Safety Knowledge System. Initially, a wealth of data and information was gathered and stored in an organized way, on road fatalities, exposure, safety performance indicators, socioeconomic indicators, health and causation indicators, road user attitudes and behaviors, traffic laws and regulations, road safety management structure and processes for 30 European countries. Data and information gathered was exploited within DaCoTA for the estimation of road traffic fatalities based on time-series analysis, as it is important to know in what direction the annual casualties are developing, and how fast this development

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Traffic Safety

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35 - 50

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YANNIS, G. ...et al., 2016. Development of the European road safety knowledge system. IN: Yannis, G. and Cohen, S. (eds.) Traffic Safety, Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley, pp. 35-50.

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© Wiley

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2016

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This paper is an updated version of the paper presented at the TRA2014 Transport Research Arena 2014: Transport Solutions: from Research to Deployment - Innovate Mobility, Mobilise Innovation! 14th-17th April 2014, Paris. This book chapter is in closed access.

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1786300303;9781786300300

Book series

Research for Innovative Transports Set;4

Language

  • en

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