Better Crash Data Can Improve Road Safety

Krambeck, Holly ; Job, Soames ; Sultan, Sara

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: ROAD SAFETY;    TRAFFIC CONGESTION;    TRAFFIC INJURIES;    INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY;    OPEN SOURCE;   

RP-ID  :  130119

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Low- and middle- income countriestypically lack adequate systems for collecting road crashdata. This limits their capacity to monitor, effectivelyadvocate for, manage, and efficiently improve road safety.While many cities, states, and countries have adopted ordeveloped proprietary systems for recording crash data, theyare often developed in isolation, limiting the ability toshare data among users. These systems may also be expensive- and unable to support road safety delivery and advocacy.They usually lack a seamless, global, real time, andgeoreferenced crash repository: a basis for monitoring thescale of the challenge. Data for road incident visualizationevaluation and reporting (DRIVER) -a data collection systemdeveloped and now operating in the Philippines, answers thischallenge, and offers an effective road safety supportsolution. DRIVER offers important opportunities for improvedroad safety data in many national and subnationaljurisdictions, and its code is available free on the WorldBank GitHub open source code repository. DRIVER is likely tobecome more widespread as the World Bank and the global roadsafety facility (GRSF) support its use in other countriesand cities.