The Road to Smarter, Safer Cities

The Road to Smarter, Safer Cities

As cities become more connected and intelligent, many communities are looking to integrate increasingly advanced safety initiatives.

CASE STUDY: Shanghai

That’s why the Shanghai Municipal Government published the “Shanghai Transportation Development Whitepaper” calling for sustainable decrease in the number of crashes and fatalities – to keep annual fatalities per 10,000 motor vehicles below 2.63 by 2020. In response, Together...

REPORT: Using Technology to Address Road Safety Challenges

By using the latest technologies, the private sector can make a significant impact on ensuring their operations, fleets, and employee drivers are safe during transport. With these guidelines, TSR aims to support companies with the transition to best practice,...

Catapulting Progress into the Fast Lane

Through TSR’s Safer Roads Challenge, the City of Atlanta and TSR entered a partnership to combine the City’s data with TSR members’ data, investigating root causes of crashes in North Avenue.

Today’s Solution for Tomorrow’s Traffic

It is only when all stakeholders come together that road safety projects, policies and technologies can be sustainable – ultimately saving lives. At TSR we seek to be active participants and thought leaders in public-private partnerships. We are learning...

3 Steps Companies Can Take to Solve Road Safety Challenges Using “Big Data”

From monitoring drivers who may accelerate too fast from a stoplight, to tracking truck breakdowns, “big data” is revealing new insights that companies can use to help make roads – and drivers – safer.

Home to the World’s Safest Roads

Sweden is home, on average, to the world's safest roads. By focusing on engineering efforts, infrastructure changes, and a robust communications campaign, Sweden is moving closer towards its goal of zero traffic deaths.

Why Should the Private Sector Care about Roadway Safety?

Companies around the world are coming to the realization that roadway crashes are not simply a problem for governments.

Dedicated Bike Paths Could Save Lives

Sweden's extensive cycle path networks not only encourage tourism and trade, but also reduce road crashes. Raised bike tracks are separated from automobile traffic, often with sloped curbs that allow easy transitioning to street level.

REPORT: Improving Global Road Safety — Corporate Sector Commitments & Opportunities

Road safety has been recognized as an increasing public health burden that disproportionately affects low- and middle-income countries. In response, in 2010 the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety to reduce...

REPORT: Investing in Road Safety — A Global Imperative for the Private Sector

With the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety, the private sector has an opportunity to drive a groundswell of meaningful cross-sector action. Companies can help save millions of lives, strengthen communities in which they do business, help...

Case Study: São Paulo, Brazil

Through concerted action and collaboration, Together for Safer Roads and the State of São Paulo are reducing the state’s crash fatalities. Together, a data system and action plans for road infrastructure, education, and supervision are being implemented to support...

DEVELOPING AND MANAGING CORPORATE TRANSPORTATION PROGRAMS

Companies must develop an environment that supports the emergence of safer road users. By initiating simple steps, companies can improve their safety performance and better protect the well-being of their employees and other road users. Together for Safer Roads has compiled member companies’ best practiced processes and guidelines for developing and managing corporate transportation programs.

4 Reasons You Should Stop Calling Vehicle Crashes “Accidents”

A group of non-profit, governmental, and business leaders are encouraging people to stop using the word “accident" when referring to a car crash, saying that it detracts from our own empowerment and responsibility to make the roads a safer...

4 Ways Road Crashes Impact the Economy

Road Crashes kill 1.25 million people and injure 20 to 50 million people every year, having a devastating impact on victims and their families. Aside from the human and health cost, road crashes carry a heavy economic cost, as...

The Hidden Cost of Traffic Crashes

Every two minutes somewhere around the world, someone dies in a roadway crash. In addition to the heavy human toll, these road crashes have massive financial, legal, and social implications for companies.

The Real Cost of Road Crashes

While every road crash causes immeasurable pain and suffering to individuals and their families, collectively, crashes contribute to an additional problem: a mounting financial drain imposed upon society and the economy.

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