Road- Pathology for Capacity Building in Road Crash Investigation & Traffic
Management Towards improving Global Road Safety
Dr. Rohit Baluja President
New Delhi, India, 2013
How many Road Traffic Violations have you noticed in these 25 second traffic Video?
Type of Mode Number
Car 738 Auto 101
Two Wheeler 455 Bus 24
Tractor 2
Truck&Tempo 2
Pedestrian 2
Total 1324
1 2 3 4
5
9 6 7 8 10
11 12
Road Designed for - 4Lanes
Indian Example Year 2011
• Fatalities 1,42,485
• Est. Serious Injuries 18,00,000
• Automobiles : 110 Million Automobiles Increasing by 3.4 Million annually
• Est. Road Traffic Violations (Daily) 2.0 billion Est. Annual increase of 90 Million (Daily)
• Traffic Congestion : Road Rage: Crime Loss of life due to various road related issues: ?
• Loss of man-hours, ??
Safety Factor
Traffic Legislation
Traffic And Road Engineering
Vehicle Regulation
Elements And Methodology Of
Driver/Rider, Training& Testing
Traffic Enforcement
Public Awareness
Post-crash Management
Manifestation In Each Of The Components Of
Traffic Management
Road Safety: Definition
Roads Like Arteries Determine The Health Of A Nation
ROAD PATHOLOGY
(CRASHOLOGY)
• factual causes behind serious & fatal road crashes
• catalytic agents which are leading to unsafe roads
• consequences of road crashes.
PATHOLOGY
• cause/etiology,
• mechanisms of development (pathogenesis),
• structural alterations of cells (morphologic changes), and
• the consequences of changes (clinical manifestations)
Diagnosis
Human Disease Road Crashes
The First Step to Solution
Scientific Means of Investigation :
• Factual Causes behind: Serious & fatal Crashes
• What are the issues/agents Catalyzing
• Road Traffic Violations/ hazardous situations
• Road Crash Investigation is rudimentary
• To book a guilty person: 95% fault is attributed to the
driver of a vehicle, and is generally the larger vehicle
In Many Developing Countries India
Value of Data
• In the absence of Scientific and Procedural
Investigation:
Data generated is only figurative, and of no
consequential value for initiating remedial measures
• Data is as Abstract as the Term” Road Safety”
UNRSC
Collaboration to: Catalyze the improvement of Global Road Safety
Strengthen & Capacity Build Traffic Management Systems to enable sustainability of road safety
IRTE's commitment towards Decade of Action
COLLEGE OF TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
Supporting UN Decade of Action For Road Safety
Departments at CTM
• Department of Traffic Engineering
• Department of Traffic Enforcement
• Department of Driver Training & Road Safety Education
• Department of Public Health for Road Safety
Department of Driver Training
Department of Traffic Enforcement
Department of Public Health
Department of Traffic Management
– Comprehensive Diploma/ Post Graduate Degrees
From 2015
Working Party 1 Session at the College
Together with our association with UNECE
IRTE will be hosting a Special Session of the WP1 at the College of Traffic Management India
On 4,5 & 6 December 2013
IRTE recommends that such dedicated non-profit
research organizations like the IRTE should
• be promoted in respective developing nations
towards capacity building of their traffic
management institutions and also
• support the UNSRC in defining micro-level
initiatives for sharing, initiation and promotion.
In addition:
Let us abstain to give remedial road safety
prescriptions and grants thereof to developing
countries without making an inquest into their
pathological road safety tests
To Doctors & Advisors of Global Road Safety
Financial grants and expertise should be directed
to strengthen the capacities of developing nations
in all respective domains of traffic management by
involving the primary need of capacity in road
accident investigation, rather than on pre-
determined and ad-hoc measures which are short-
lasting.
The IRTE as a member of the UNRSC & Commission for
Global Road Safety offers to support members of the
Collaboration as well as Governments of developing
countries towards catalyzing capacity building initiatives in
their respective domains.
IRTE Offers our Support
Thank You Website : www.irte.com
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