Road Safety Management in Africa

Download or read book Road Safety Management in Africa written by João Canoquena and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the road death reduction capacity in Africa, with a view to assisting Master’s and doctoral students to contribute to road traffic injury prevention. Divided into five parts, this innovative portrayal of the institutional capacity to reduce road deaths evaluates the reporting accuracy of crash data in Africa, the causes of road deaths, institutional weaknesses and threats, and detailed case-studies. It also offers suggestions for the development of coordinated road traffic policy responses. Complete with practice activities and recommendations for further reading, this book is ideal as a course textbook at tertiary institutions, and will encourage policy makers and university students to be reflective practitioners.