Article: Is the effect of quantified road safety targets sustainable?
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| Title | Is the effect of quantified road safety targets sustainable? | ||||||
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| Authors | Wong, SC1 Sze, NN2 | ||||||
| Keywords | Before-and-after evaluation Long-term effect Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Quantified road safety target Road fatality Treatment-comparison group approach | ||||||
| Issue Date | 2010 | ||||||
| Publisher | Elsevier BV. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ssci | ||||||
| Citation | Safety Science, 2010, v. 48 n. 9, p. 1182-1188 [How to Cite?] DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2009.12.020 | ||||||
| Abstract | Recent studies have shown that the setting of road safety targets is associated with a substantial reduction in road fatalities in the short-term. Although such targets may not themselves be responsible for the reduction in fatalities, they serve as a useful measure of the intention and commitment of road authorities to formulate timely road safety measures that lead to the achievement of the target. A quantified target is regarded as one of the key components of a road safety strategy. However, few studies have examined the degree of commitment and attention of road authorities to such targets in the long-term. In this study, we revisit the effectiveness of the quantified road safety targets set by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, but with a different method, time scale, and group of comparison countries. We not only evaluate the associations between quantified targets and road fatality levels, but also measure the changes in the time-series trends in road fatalities over the long-term. The results indicate that all seven treatment countries analyzed experienced desirable changes in the time-series trend in road fatalities during the period under study, which implies an increase in road safety improvement over time. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. | ||||||
| Description | This article appears in the Workshop on Scientific Research on Road Safety Management (organized by SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research), Haarlem, The Netherlands, 16-17 November 2009 | ||||||
| ISSN | 0925-7535 2011 Impact Factor: 1.402 2011 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.062 | ||||||
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2009.12.020 | ||||||
| ISI Accession Number ID | WOS:000281369600013
Funding Information: We would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their constructive and insightful comments on an earlier version of the paper. The work described in this paper was supported by grants from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China (Project No.: HKU7176/07E) and the Outstanding Researcher Award from the University of Hong Kong. | ||||||
| References | References in Scopus |
| dc.contributor.author | Wong, SC | ||||||
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| dc.contributor.author | Sze, NN | ||||||
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-10-31T10:22:51Z | ||||||
| dc.date.available | 2010-10-31T10:22:51Z | ||||||
| dc.date.issued | 2010 | ||||||
| dc.description.abstract | Recent studies have shown that the setting of road safety targets is associated with a substantial reduction in road fatalities in the short-term. Although such targets may not themselves be responsible for the reduction in fatalities, they serve as a useful measure of the intention and commitment of road authorities to formulate timely road safety measures that lead to the achievement of the target. A quantified target is regarded as one of the key components of a road safety strategy. However, few studies have examined the degree of commitment and attention of road authorities to such targets in the long-term. In this study, we revisit the effectiveness of the quantified road safety targets set by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, but with a different method, time scale, and group of comparison countries. We not only evaluate the associations between quantified targets and road fatality levels, but also measure the changes in the time-series trends in road fatalities over the long-term. The results indicate that all seven treatment countries analyzed experienced desirable changes in the time-series trend in road fatalities during the period under study, which implies an increase in road safety improvement over time. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. | ||||||
| dc.description.nature | Link_to_subscribed_fulltext | ||||||
| dc.description | This article appears in the Workshop on Scientific Research on Road Safety Management (organized by SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research), Haarlem, The Netherlands, 16-17 November 2009 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.citation | Safety Science, 2010, v. 48 n. 9, p. 1182-1188 [How to Cite?] DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2009.12.020 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.citeulike | 6708565 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2009.12.020 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.epage | 1188 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 174270 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000281369600013
Funding Information: We would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their constructive and insightful comments on an earlier version of the paper. The work described in this paper was supported by grants from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China (Project No.: HKU7176/07E) and the Outstanding Researcher Award from the University of Hong Kong. | ||||||
| dc.identifier.issn | 0925-7535 2011 Impact Factor: 1.402 2011 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.062 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.issue | 9 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.openurl | | ||||||
| dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-77955088250 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.spage | 1182 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/124240 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.volume | 48 | ||||||
| dc.language | eng | ||||||
| dc.publisher | Elsevier BV. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ssci | ||||||
| dc.publisher.place | Netherlands | ||||||
| dc.relation.ispartof | Safety Science | ||||||
| dc.relation.references | References in Scopus | ||||||
| dc.subject | Before-and-after evaluation | ||||||
| dc.subject | Long-term effect | ||||||
| dc.subject | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development | ||||||
| dc.subject | Quantified road safety target | ||||||
| dc.subject | Road fatality | ||||||
| dc.subject | Treatment-comparison group approach | ||||||
| dc.title | Is the effect of quantified road safety targets sustainable? | ||||||
| dc.type | Article |
Author Affiliations
- The University of Hong Kong
- Delft University of Technology