‘Road safety is no accident’: building efficient road safety lead agencies, strategies and targets in the world, 2009–2023
Matts-Åke Belin, Meleckidzedeck Khayesi, Nhan Tran · 2025
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Matts-Åke Belin, Meleckidzedeck Khayesi, and Nhan Tran tracked how countries organized road safety work from 2009 to 2023 in a 2025 paper. Their measures are three governance basics: a lead agency for road safety, a national strategy, and numbered targets for cutting deaths. Data came from questionnaires behind five global status reports.
All three features grew steadily worldwide and in most World Health Organization regions. Africa and the Americas posted the largest gains. Europe and parts of the Pacific, by contrast, saw slight declines in some features. The authors caution that counting agencies and plans is not the same as knowing they work, and they call for research on how well these tools are actually used.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Matts-Åke Belin, Meleckidzedeck Khayesi, Nhan Tran |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 16 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |