City roads in India unsafe for pedestrians, cyclists': World Health...
BHUBANESWAR: Traffic related fatalities in the country have increased by 4.6 percent in 2015 resulting in the death of over two lakh persons. Quoting the figures from a report by the World Health...
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View ArticleGovt green light to traffic management system
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View ArticleMinister calls for strict road safety laws
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With over 1.24 million deaths and up to 50 million injuries every year on roads – over 90% of which happen in low and middle income countries (LMICs), road safety is now recognized as an urgent global
View ArticleThe political economy of road safety: a policy-oriented literature review
Road safety is a major international health issue – every year an estimated 1.25 million people are killed on the world’s roads and up to 50 million people incur non-fatal injuries. Despite the scale of
View ArticleBlueprint for an EU cycling strategy
This draft blueprint document for an EU Cycling Strategy is the first time ever that, in a consolidated manner, all EU policies that have a direct or indirect link to cycling, have been collected in one
View ArticleMumbai footpaths not pedestrian friendly: Road safety survey
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View ArticleSpeed thrills but kills: More lives lost this year than 2017
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View Article30% of Delhi-Mumbai highway unsafe: Study
NEW DELHI:Nearly 30% of the Delhi-Mumbai and almost half of the Mumbai-Chennai stretches of the Golden Quadrilateral are unsafe for car, bus and truck occupants, says a first-ofits-kind safety study on
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