TY  - GEN
AU  - Beaujon Marin, Amanda
AU  - Hidalgo, Darío
AU  - Zamora, Edgar
AU  - Café, Eduardo
AU  - Montes, Laureen
AU  - Cortés, René
AU  - Montoya Robledo, Valentín
AU  - Bernal Carvajal, Valeria
AU  - Pinto Ayala, Ana María
AU  - Díaz, Claudia
AU  - Santos, Claudia Franchesca de los
AU  - Persaud, Christopher
AU  -  Puppo, Corina
AU  - Alonso, Francisco
AU  - Paredes, Hernán
AU  - Rodríguez, Manuel
AU  - Ponce De León, Marisela
AU  - Sosa, Martín
AU  - Chiavassa, Nathalie
AU  -  Cruz, Paula
AU  - Dewez, Raphael
AU  - Azzato, Franco
AU  - Riobó, Alexander
AU  - Crotte Alvarado, Amado
AU  - Rodrigues, Beatriz
AU  - Aun, Eduarda
AU  - Pompeo, Eduardo
AU  - De la Peña, Elena
AU  - Bradford, James
AU  - Kissner, Jessica
AU  - Williams, Judy
AU  - Urzua, Julio
AU  - Scholl, Lynn
AU  - Fletcher, Morgan
AU  -  Aguilar, Sonia
AU  - Santos, Paula
AU  -  Schwedhelm, Alejandro
AU  - Furas, Alejandro
AU  - Fernández, Eduard
AU  - Berner, Rebbeca L.
AU  - Brodziak, Stephan
AU  - Rojas Méndez, Ana María
AU  - Rodríguez, María Fernanda
AU  - Picard, Jeanne
AU  - Gaviria Fajardo, Ricardo
AU  - Gallego, Rosa
TI  - Road safety in Latin America and the Caribbean: after a decade of action prospects for safer mobility
PY  - 2023
Y1  - 2023/03/31
DO  - 10.18235/0004843
AB  - The first Decade of Action for Road Safety has ended, but not without demonstrating the importance that systemic work on road safety offers towards protecting life. At the same time, it is clear that real progress in road safety requires a significant commitment of time, resources and political effort. In the Latin American and Caribbean region (LAC), over the past ten years, the growth in the rate of vehicle deaths has slowed. Unfortunately, in the last two years this trend has reversed due to the expansion of the motorcycle fleet in the region. Although it has been possible to raise awareness, create institutions, plan and implement important actions to reduce fatalities, LAC has not obtained the same results as high-income countries, which have entirely reversed the trend in road deaths. In accordance with the above, it is possible to conceive of a second decade of action as an opportunity for LAC countries to finalize the processes initiated over the past decade and to introduce successful lessons experiences from other countries in the region. With this study, the IDB intends to guide this process of continuous improvement, highlighting the best practices and offering an overview of how to move from theory to practice, following the principles that mobility must be safe, sustainable and inclusive, while reducing the risk to all road users, especially the most vulnerable, and maintain the focus on users with special needs (people with disabilities, children and the elderly).
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18235/0004843
ER  -