Compendium of best practices on motorcycle and scooter safety

APEC
2011



For information about vehicle numbers, population, helmet wearing rates and road user deaths for each APEC member economy, visit the Economies page. Click on each Economy name for details specific to that economy.

To read about important issues and contributing factors to serious crashes, injuries and deaths of motorcycle and scooter users, as identified by APEC economies, visit the Issues page.

To learn about countermeasures to improve motorcycle safety, as well as strategy development and how to evaluate programs, visit the Safety Interventions page.

To see examples of treatments and programs implemented by APEC member economies, visit the Case Studies page.

Useful links and selected references are located on the Links page.

More information about this Compendium, a glossary of terms and acronyms used, and links to download the Report to APEC and Literature Review on which this Compendium is based, can be found on the About page.

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Some managerial and technical issues in transport sector development projects

Tengiz Gogelia and Antti Talvitie
Transportation
Online First
June 2011

In development projects there is only one problem, but it is huge: everything is connected to everything else. The authors separated from the whole the following important issues: (1) Project management and coordination: The Recipient Country’s Aid Coordination Unit (ACU) and Project Implementation Unit (PIU) staffed with competent local experts are necessary to hold the reform process memory. This issue is considered in the context of “Ownership” and “Government Leadership” as it is recognized in donor aid forums in the last decade. (2) Human resource development: Most technical assistance is oriented toward providing solutions, and the development of local capacities is ignored. The authors point out the importance of specially selected local experts—the “Technical Communication Officers”. (3) Institutional functioning: A ‘process consultation’ approach to institutional restructuring is promoted in which the Recipient has the key role. It is also recommended that the Recipient is the initiator of technical assistance in the projects. (4) Design standards are a recurrent and difficult problem. Recommendations are necessary how to transit to the new standards and how to mediate their approval process. (5) Procurement and management of consulting services: The authors argue that the recipient country qualified professionals have to be in the lead role. The vignettes in the paper are from the “real world” although they are modified slightly to protect privacy.

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El alza del precio del petróleo y su impacto en los fletes marítimos de productos exportados por Chile en contenedores

Sebastián Faúndez, Nanno Mulder, Gabriel Pérez Salas y Ricardo J. Sánchez
CEPAL
Serie Recursos Naturales e Infraestructura
Nº 151
Abril de 2011

El presente estudio analiza el impacto del alza del petróleo en el costo del flete de los principales productos exportados por Chile por vía marítima y que van en contenedores. Para ello, propone un modelo econométrico capaz de aislar la incidencia del precio del petróleo sobre los costos de transporte marítimo de contenedores, con el cual se analiza la información son los documentos únicos de salida (DUS) para el período 2001-2008. Durante 2007 y la primera mitad de 2008, que fue la antesala de la crisis económica mundial y donde se observó un brusco incremento del valor del precio del petróleo.

El modelo propuesto toma en cuenta la acción de la oferta y la demanda en la determinación del flete de contenedores en servicios regulares. Además corrige problemas de especificación observados en algunos modelos de la literatura tradicional, al rescatar los efectos fijos y constantes no medibles para una ruta/producto y considerar debidamente las economías de red al realizar un análisis costa a costa entre orígenes y destinos del comercio y no puerto a puerto, como es lo usual. El documento demuestra para el período analizado, que si bien el aumento de precio en el petróleo repercutió en los fletes pagados por las exportaciones chilenas, su participación fue menor a lo esperado, entorno al 30%. Lo que indica que hay otros factores que incidieron más fuertemente en la determinación de los fletes.

Los autores proponen un conjunto de acciones en el ámbito público para aliviar los efectos de los cambios en los fletes, entre los que destacan reformas en la políticas de provisión de infraestructura, los regímenes regulatorios del transporte, el fomento de la logística, la construcción de capacidades, la reducción de las asimetrías de información, la facilitación del comercio trans-fronterizo y el desarrollo de infraestructuras multimodales, entre otros aspectos.

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Country Guidelines for the Conduct of Road Safety Management Capacity Reviews and the Specification of Lead Agency Reforms, Investment Strategies and Safe System Projects

Implementing the Recommendations of the World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention
Tony Bliss • Jeanne Breen
World Bank Global Road Safety Facility
June 2009

In support of the World Report, several documents have been published recently. The Country guidelines for the conduct of road safety management capacity reviews published by the World Bank goes through each of the above recommendations and provides detailed advice for how to take them forward. It also suggest a specific management system also based on the safe systems principles and focusing on results.

The road safety management system is suggested divided in 3 areas:

• Results (social cost, final outcomes, intermediate outcomes and outputs)
• Interventions focusing on the road network (planning/design/operation, vehicles/drivers, recovery/rehabilitation of crash victims)
• Institutional Management Functions (coordination, legislation, funding and resource allocation, monitoring and evaluation, and research/development and knowledge transfer)

The Country guidelines furthermore explain how management capacity can be build by using the road safety management system in the different stages of appraisal and implementation. Supporting tables and questionnaires are given to help assess the situation and provide assistance in identifying Safe System implementation projects strengthening the overall management system too.

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La capacitación en el sector del transporte terrestre de carga en América Latina

Graciela Guidobono
CEPAL
Boletín FAL Nº 270, número 2/2009

El presente trabajo examina las políticas y acciones de capacitación laboral existentes en el sector del transporte terrestre de carga y operación logística en Argentina, Chile, Colombia y Paraguay a nivel público y privado, a partir de una serie de entrevistas y encuestas administradas entre febrero y mayo de 2009 a organismos públicos responsables por las políticas de transporte y de empleo, a cámaras empresariales, y a empresas seleccionadas por su experiencia en la implementación de planes de capacitación (empresas-caso).

Entendiendo que la creación y administración del conocimiento es una capacidad clave para incrementar la productividad y competitividad del sector, el presente boletín explora aspectos del desempeño laboral de los recursos humanos del sector y la existencia de mecanismos de medición del impacto de la capacitación en los niveles de desempeño actuales y los proyectados.

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Brazil - Mato Grosso do Sul State Road Transport Project

INTEGRATED SAFEGUARDS DATA SHEET
World Bank
October 2009

The project development objective is to improve the efficiency of the state road network, including reduction of vehicle operating costs, freight transport losses, and travel times, as well as improved access to markets and services, notably in areas with economic potential. The objective will be achieved through: (i) support to Government in improving efficiency in the design and implementation of its state road rehabilitation and surfacing program; (ii) financing of eligible works under the State road investment program; and (iii) institutional development support to improve Government capacity in identifying, executing and monitoring civil works, at the administrative, engineering and social and environmental levels.

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Chile - Santiago Urban Transport Programmatic Development Policy Loan Project

World Bank
August 2009

Ratings for the Santiago Urban Transport Programmatic Development Policy Loan Project for Chile were as follows: outcomes were moderately satisfactory, the risk to development outcome was moderate, the Bank performance was moderately satisfactory, and the Borrower performance was also moderately satisfactory. Some lessons learned included: lack of a holistic approach may result in emphasizing one concern over another, for example, focusing mainly on environmental and economic considerations may lead to a design with unnecessarily fewer and larger buses. However, fewer and larger buses reduce comfort and increase waiting times. Such a decrease in service quality is a disincentive for public transport use and will, at least in the long run, go against environmental and economic considerations. Hence, it is important that a design that includes user participation finds the right balance between environmental and economic considerations and service quality. Travel and network models are excellent tools to evaluate network designs, but over reliance on normative analytical tools that 'optimize' a network subject to a set of assumptions, especially in areas that assume behavioral changes, should be avoided. The modeling exercise also needs to include 'bottom up' inputs, such as information on the importance in terms of overall weight people give to transfers, waiting, and walking. The Santiago experience showed that it is not advisable to redesign the public transport network without considering the existing information on travel demand and destination available through the operators. Additionally, stakeholders' involvement in the network design process, especially the municipalities comprising the metropolitan area, operators and users, is essential, and the design concept for the network needs to be extensively modeled before implementation.

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Argentina - Road Safety Project

World Bank
August 2009

...The proposed project development objective is to reduce road traffic crashes along targeted corridors of Argentina’s road network. This objective will be achieved through strengthening the institutional framework and management of road safety interventions, the development of improved institutional capacity to manage for results, enhanced monitoring and evaluation of road safety performance, and the achievement of targeted safety improvements on defined pilot corridors...

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Successful transport decision-making: A project management and stakeholder engagement handbook

CIVITAS
2004



This handbook is the main outcome of the GUIDEMAPS project and gives a practical overview of good practice in stakeholder engagement, public participation and project management for local and regional transport projects. Among the tools and techniques presented are those that are already well known and well accepted, but there are also a number of tools that are relatively new for the transport sector in Europe.

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E-learning for training Energy Agencies in mobility management and alternative fuels

E-TREAM

e-TREAM offers a complete e-learning platform for Mobility Management and Alternative fuels for free:
Select from 10 language versions
Be flexible; learn whenever you have time to do so
Get inspiration from best practices from all over Europe
Communicate with other users, with experts in the forums or with your personal tutor
Be interactive and use audio and video files, presentations, links and other features
Choose from 9 training modules:

Fundamentals of transport and energy (introduction)
Production and utilisation of bio-fuels
Alternative fuels and clean vehicles (excluding bio-fuels)
Driving style and in-car devices
Mobility Management for municipalities
Mobility Management for companies and institutions
Mobility Management for schools
Demand Management
Mobility Marketing

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Sobre Ruedas

Newsletter Nº 79
Fundación Profesional para el Transporte
Julio 2009

Contenido:

• Uruguay: Montevideo. El polo logístico más destacado de la región.
• Logística Verde. Se nos viene, y se nos viene ya.
• La situación del Transporte Marítimo de carga en Argentina
• Nueva edición del PACE CIT en el exterior.
• Asumen nuevas autoridades en la Secretaria de Transporte de la Republica Argentina.

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Training course on the design and construction of low volume rural roads

Research for Development
June 2009

The objective of the project is the effective transfer of appropriate knowledge on the selection, design, construction and management of Low Volume Rural Roads (LVRRs) to provincial and district engineers operating under the Cambodian National Decentralisation and De-concentration (NCDD) programme. The NCDD is investing in rural access and rural roads and is consequently interested acquiring knowledge relevant to improving the performance of these investments. Training Module 1 was conducted from 4th to 7th May 2009: LVRR paving and surfacing training. This is a 4 day course based on the materials developed for DF 55 in Vietnam, but amended and upgraded to suit Cambodian rural infrastructure needs and environments. Documents attached are course details and summary, and presentations for the course. The presentations are:

- 1: LVRR Principles
- 2: Surfacing and Paving Options
- 3: Pavement Option Selection and Design
- 4: LVRR Pavement Construction
- 5: Environmentally Optimized Design
- 6: Desk Exercise.

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