Research project

Road safety in low income countries: state of knowledge and future directions

Project overview

This project undertook a systematic review and produced a state of knowledge paper on road safety in low income countries. Particular focus was placed on underreporting, limited data conditions, unobserved heterogeneity, emerging technologies and new forms of data, novel approaches, expected increases in traffic volumes, dumping of old vehicles and advanced vehicle safety features.
This work was part of the High Volume Transport applied research programme and involved a collaboration with the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit.

Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Shahram Heydari

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Transportation safety
  • Travel behaviour
  • Traffic-related air pollution
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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Shahram Heydari, Adrian Hickford, Rich Mcilroy, Jeff Turner & Abdulgafoor M. Bachani, 2019, Sustainability, 11(22), 6249
Type: article