Road safety improvement by applying policies and technology

Now a day’s road traffic fatalities as well as injuries have become global crises. Road safety is a major concern for society and individuals. Every year more than 1.2 million people die on the world’s road accident and about 50 million are injured. In order to address this major health crisis the UN has declared 2011-2020 as the decade of action for road safety. In the present context the need for making proper policies and better utilization of advanced technologies rendering for the improvement of road safety are the foremost task. The thesis principally organizes to focus on both of the policies and technologies related to improvement of road safety. The road safety problem characteristics and the prevalent conditions in road safety are initially noticed by analyzing the accident trends of different regions (Europe, USA, and Asia).The new policies adopting in different corners of the world are also described along with its safety benefits against accident causation. Long term planning is very crucial as some countries (Norway, Sweden) have been benefiting applying their safety program such as vision zero. Having a better policy the contemporary technologies may serve the purpose of fulfilling the target of safety improvement taken by many countries. Both of vehicles and infrastructures could be integrated to get better benefit from enabling technologies. ITS plays an important role to safeguard that purpose. Implications addressing to reduce the probability of happening the crash event (active measures) and also consequences (passive measures) of ITS are well explained. Policies will have no effect on road safety unless they are implemented. The implementation considerations of both the policies and novel technologies are also suggested.