Making Vision Zero real: Preventing pedestrian accidents and making them less severe Institute of Transport Economics Export

@book{citeulike:1556205, abstract = {This report describes the risk of accidents and injuries for pedestrians and cyclists, factors affecting the risk of these accidents, and measures to reduce the probability and severity of these accidents. The risk of pedestrian accidents is ca. 10 times greater than the risk for motorized road users. Safety measures are effective in reducing the risk for pedestrian and cyclist accidents when one or more risk factors are reduced, e.g. vehicle speed or lack of visibility of pedestrians and cyclists in the traffic environment. Increasing the amount of walking and cycling may increase the total number of pedestrian and cyclist accidents, but would decrease accident risk and would lead to a more fair distribution of injury rates between non-motorized and motorized road users. ISBN nr: 978-82-480-0749-4}, address = {Oslo, Norway}, author = {Erke, Alena and Elvik, Rune}, citeulike-article-id = {1556205}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.toi.no/article19378-29.html}, comment = {Some quite interesting ideas are being put forward in this report. It seems they could have benefitted from contact with NGO's and such that have many arguments and evidence in this subject matter that they seem to have missed.}, editor = {Elvik, Rune}, howpublished = {Institute of Transport Economics, Oslo : report series. Commissioned by the Norw. Ministry of Transport}, keywords = {accident, cost-benefit, crashes, cycling, helmet, norwegian, pedestrian, public\_health, traffic, walking}, organization = {Institute of Transport Economics, Oslo : report series. Commissioned by the Norw. Ministry of Transport}, posted-at = {2007-08-12 18:36:58}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Institute of Transport Economics, Oslo : report series. Commissioned by the Norw. Ministry of Transport}, title = {Making Vision Zero real: Preventing pedestrian accidents and making them less severe Institute of Transport Economics}, url = {http://www.toi.no/article19378-29.html}, year = {2007} }

TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:1556205 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1556205 N2 - This report describes the risk of accidents and injuries for pedestrians and cyclists, factors affecting the risk of these accidents, and measures to reduce the probability and severity of these accidents. The risk of pedestrian accidents is ca. 10 times greater than the risk for motorized road users. Safety measures are effective in reducing the risk for pedestrian and cyclist accidents when one or more risk factors are reduced, e.g. vehicle speed or lack of visibility of pedestrians and cyclists in the traffic environment. Increasing the amount of walking and cycling may increase the total number of pedestrian and cyclist accidents, but would decrease accident risk and would lead to a more fair distribution of injury rates between non-motorized and motorized road users. ISBN nr: 978-82-480-0749-4 OR - Institute of Transport Economics, Oslo : report series. Commissioned by the Norw. Ministry of Transport AD - Oslo, Norway TI - Making Vision Zero real: Preventing pedestrian accidents and making them less severe Institute of Transport Economics PB - Institute of Transport Economics, Oslo : report series. Commissioned by the Norw. Ministry of Transport KW - accident KW - cost-benefit KW - crashes KW - cycling KW - helmet KW - norwegian KW - pedestrian KW - public_health KW - traffic KW - walking N1 - Some quite interesting ideas are being put forward in this report. It seems they could have benefitted from contact with NGO's and such that have many arguments and evidence in this subject matter that they seem to have missed. AU - Erke, Alena AU - Elvik, Rune A2 - Elvik, Rune PY - 2007/// UR - http://www.toi.no/article19378-29.html ER -