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Road safety: Policies, strategies and action campaigns
Laurent Carnis Research Director, IFSTTAR Institute, France. French-speaking Secretary of Technical Committee C.1 National Road Safety Policies and Programs of the World Road Association
The internationalization of the road safety issue is no longer open to debate. Road-related risks must now be addressed across all continents, although the extent of risk mitigation varies tremendously. Should the numbers of victims be expressed per capita or should analyses actually segment by victims, major variations can indeed be observed. Such discrepancies are known to decision-makers, as underscored by Roberto Arditi, in his introduction on low and middle-income countries.