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PROTOCOL: Effectiveness of road safety interventions: An evidence and gap map

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  • Dinesh Mohan
  • Geetam Tiwari
  • Mathew Varghese
  • Kavi Bhalla
  • Denny John
  • Ashrita Saran
  • Howard White

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The Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011–2020, officially proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in March 2010, sought to reduce morbidity and mortality due to road traffic injuries (RTI) significantly. While there is reasonable agreement internationally on safer designs of motor vehicles (except locally produced vehicles like three‐wheeled scooter taxis, tuk‐tuks, jeepneys, etc.), there is a lack of evidence based interventions in road and infrastructure design, police enforcement and post‐crash care. Researchers in the field of traffic safety have been aware of the existence of counterintuitive results in their area of work for more than four decades. The fact that many interventions do not result in reductions in RTI is mainly because a large number of studies only measure intermediate outcomes like change in behaviour or knowledge and not the actual results in the field. The scope of this evidence and gap map (EGM) is to cover relevant studies in road safety sector from all countries and present the effectiveness of interventions in terms of mainly traffic crash injuries as its outcome. The interventions adopted in this EGM are classified into five broad categories: Human factors, vehicle factors and protective devices, road design, infrastructure and traffic control, post‐crash pre‐hospital care and legal and institutional framework. In order to come closer to accomplishing targets for road safety, it is important to allocate resources to promote interventions that are effective in achieving outcomes in the context of road safety. A mapping will provide a comprehensive overview of existing knowledge in the area of road safety and its effectiveness across the world. The map will guide programme managers to high quality evidence and inform targeted commissioning of future research.

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  • Dinesh Mohan & Geetam Tiwari & Mathew Varghese & Kavi Bhalla & Denny John & Ashrita Saran & Howard White, 2020. "PROTOCOL: Effectiveness of road safety interventions: An evidence and gap map," Campbell Systematic Reviews, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 16(1), March.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:camsys:v:16:y:2020:i:1:n:e1077
    DOI: 10.1002/cl2.1077
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