Post on 27-Jul-2020
Road Safety: A Global Crisis
UNESCAP Regional Seminar on Road Safety, New Delhi, 2019
Soames Job
Head of the Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF)
Global Lead for Road Safety, World Bank
This address: core areas covered (briefly)
1. The Global Road Safety Crisis - Predicting scale of the problem
2. Can we afford to do Road Safety?- Economic Costs
3. Road Safety can be delivered- Evidence-based solutions, not common sense
4. What the World Bank and GRSF are doing
- Road Safety Observatory for Asia
The Road Safety Crisis is Worsening• We will not meet the United Nations Decade
target or the SDG targets
• 2013 = 1.25 million deaths • 2016 = 1.35 million deaths
• Bangladesh: 2013 = 21 316 deaths (WHO for 2013) 2016= 24 954 deaths (WHO for 2016) (Officially, Police: 2 376)
The Road Safety Crisis is Worsening• We will not meet the United Nations Decade
target or the SDG targets
• 2013 = 1.25 million deaths • 2016 = 1.35 million deaths
• Simple extrapolation:…………Brutal prediction:
The decade 2021 to 2030 = 17.4 million deaths and 500m+ injuries Road crashes are the scale of a World War.
Can we afford to do road safety3-7% of GDP is critical but not convincing to some
Q: Does halving deaths & injuries = more GDP growth?
A: YES: Economic analysis of 5 countries by WB/GRSF
(With Bloomberg Philanthropies funding)
- GDP grows faster: 7% to 22% more over 24 years
- For some countries almost an extra 1% per year
Road safety = good economic investment
Road Safety can be delivered: great value
• Road safety is a product, which can be delivered with managed investment
• Evidence-based solutions, not common sense
• Many countries are succeeding and we see close relationships between policy and reduced death numbers
• Example: iRAP Report in China: Investing US$4,579,412 = saves 198 FSI= saves US$ $25,511,967 in crash costs. BCR = 6.
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World Bank & Road Safety• Key part of projects
• Road Safety safeguard went into effect October 2018
– First systematic requirement that road safety must be addressed in projects which can influence road safety
– Guidance on requirements
– Exciting development
GRSF Current Donors and Funders
8GRSF: Huge leveraging ratio
GRSFGlobally
influential reports
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GRSF: Influential
guiding research
publications & Road Safety
Observatories(Incl: Asia)
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The World Bank &
the Global Road Safety
Facility:
e.g., in LIC: Nepal
Before
During
After
After
Thank you for your attention
Soames Job
We talk about rOad safety badly: creating barriers to SAFE SYSTEM and
EVIDENCE BASED ACTION
We talk about raod safety badly: Old WRONG model still promoted, creating barriers
TO SAFE SYSTEM and ACTIONWrong answer to a wrong question: Key Q: not what causes crashes but what causes FSI
Lets make salt……….
New Model: Safe System & Scientific Reality
• Focus on solutions not problems: remove any one cause and problem can’t occur
Speed = 100%
Thank you for your attention
Soames Job