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

www.cotm.com Email : rohitbaluja@irte.com