International Tourism and Road Safety Seminar

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• International Tourism and Road Safety Seminar
• Andrew J. Pearce
• Paris, 24th September, 2008

GRSP is a hosted programme of the International
Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent
Societies
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Road Safety - Global Context

• WHO estimates
• 1.3 million deaths, 50 million injuries per year
• 2.4 million deaths by 2030
• 2 cause of death in 4 29 year olds (2002)
• 85 of casualties in low and middle income
  countries
• Incalculable pain and suffering
• 65 billion per year financial cost in low and
  middle income countries and growing fast

This 65 billion is a prize that we can win by
investing in road safety
..and if we do not, we will continue pay the price
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Road Safety Global Context

• 2 May - Cyclone Nargis, Myanmar, over 100,000
  dead and 2 million homeless
• 12 May - Sichuan earthquake, 55,000 dead, 25,000
  missing, 5 million displaced

• Every two months the roads take the same toll on
  humanity.

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Contributing to a global coalition
People
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Reducing Road Safety Risk
Law
Standards
Infrastructure
Behaviour in daily life
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Partnership the core of GRSP
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Safe Driving Communities in Brazilian towns
SDMC Transporte Seguro Motoristas de Transporte
Coletivo CERTIFICADO
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What can the tourist industry do?

• Work with local partners to make your area free
  of crashes-
• Get your own fleet safety management up to a high
  standard
• Create communities of safe taxi drivers
• Create communities of safe bus drivers
• Create communities of safe rental vehicles

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• Thank You!

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