China
In response to China's growing road safety crisis, GRSP is working with partners on four major projects. Supported by the Global Road Safety Initiative, all projects go through the same processes: situational survey, intervention and evaluation.
Road Safety in China
ProjectsImproving safety for Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs) at Junctions
GRSP worked with partners to improve safety for vulnerable road users such as pedestrians and cyclists at six high-risk intersections in Beijing. The team studied key risks, designed low-cost solutions, implemented improvements, then analyzed the results. The evaluation showed: A good practice manual based on the experience was published in May 2009. Reducing drinking and driving in two cities in China’s Guanxi province
GRSP is working with the World Health Organization and a wide range of partners on understanding the scale of the problem, raising awareness, and reducing the prevalence of drinking and driving and in Nanning and Liuzhou, via education and enforcement efforts. Results: more than 5,000 drivers/riders (breath tested and interviewed) indicated significant decreases in drinking and driving in the two cities with the campaign, while the control city with no campaign showed an increase. Speed Management
GRSP's speed-management project in China aims to reduce speeding and related death and injury on selected roadways. Together with China's Research Institute of Highways of the Ministry of Communications, GRSP launched the Chinese version of the global good practice manual on speed management in 2008 and began a two-year speed management project. Children's safety project
In 2008, GRSP signed a contract with the Institute of Comprehensive Transport (ICT) to carry out the children road safety research project in China and better understand the nature and scope of problem of children road traffic injury in Guangzhou. |