Assessment of road safety management at institutional level in Malaysia::A case study

This paper examines the current institutional arrangements for the management of road safety in Malaysia in a systematic manner. It focuses on road safety funding and seeks to provide an insight into how funding factors may affect both the effectiveness and the efficiency or road safety management. The study follows an exploratory approach based on semi-structured interviews targeting key stakeholders in road safety management such as policy makers from various government agencies, private sector representatives and academia. The information collected is subsequently analysed using a template analysis technique based on a set of criteria defined by the World Bank. The analysis reveals that the efficiency and effectiveness of the road safety management system in Malaysia may be sustainably improved by addressing the current dependence of funding solely on government sources, the fragmentation of the decision making process of this de facto multi-disciplinary area, the road safety legislative framework, public awareness, local needs and institutional capacity. An institutional model based on 2nd generation road funds is tentative suggested to this effect. Keywords: Road safety management, Qualitative research, Malaysi

Association of Researchers in Construction Management

The construction industry generates overwhelming environmental waste, particularly during construction and demolition activities. While most of the waste is inert, the small amount of toxic and hazardous substances may cause significant environmental degradation leading to socio-economic impacts. Therefore, the construction industry is not only concerned with the life-safety of buildings but management of construction and demolition waste. However, implementation of these strategies indicates that technical, legislation, and other socio-economic constraints exist. The major impediment, that is, legislation and the process in which technological solutions are accepted by authorities with jurisdiction are considered. The review involves evaluation of the interfaces between environmental, planning, and building regulations more especially how they impose constraints on each other in respect to C&DW management. The evaluation reveals that the construction industry and its stakeholders neglect legal procedures of developing and deploying technology. Consequently, authorities having jurisdiction often preclude these technologydependant C&DW management strategies citing reasons as non-compliance with prevailing building regulations. Keywords: building regulations, construction and demolition waste (C&DW) standards and codes of practice, town and country planning acts

Accident causation and pre-accidental driving situations. Part 3. Summary report

This report aims to present the final results of the descriptive statistical, in-depth and risk analysis performed within TRACE Work Package ‘WP2-Type of situations’, in order to identify the main problems and the magnitude of these problems related to accident causation and risk factors for the following four types of situations: the stabilized situations, the specific manoeuvres, the intersection situations and the degraded situations. The different analysis (descriptive, in-depth and risk) of each of these five tasks has been performed using the available European accident databases within TRACE (national, in-depth and exposure databases). The objectives achieved in this WP are: • Identify and quantify accident causation factors associated to particular types of driving and pre-accidental situations, at a statistical level, by analyzing various available databases in Europe. • Obtain a focused understanding of accident causation issues related to these types of situations at an in-depth level by analyzing data from available in-depth databases. • Identify the level of risk associated to these selected types of situation in causing accidents

Accident causation and pre-accidental driving situations. Part 2. In-depth accident causation analysis

WP2 of the European Project TRACE is concerned with “Types of Situations” to analyse the causation of road traffic accidents from the pre-accidental driving situation point of view. Four complementary situations were defined: stabilized situations, intersection, specific manoeuvre and degradation scenario. To reach this objective, the analysis is based on a common methodology composed on 3 steps: the “descriptive analysis” which from general statistics will allow to identify among the studied situations those them relevant and to give their characteristics, the “in-depth analysis” allowing to obtain accident causes from the generic description of the problems identified in the previous step and the risk analysis identifying the risk of being involved in an accident taking into account the results obtained from the ‘in–depth’ level. This report is dedicated to the identification of the accident causes analysed for the pre-accidental driving situation point of view, i.e. the circumstances in which the driver is involved just prior the accident. This analysis has been conducted from the scenarios identified for each type of situation during the descriptive analysis realized in a first part (Report D2.1: Accident causation and pre-accidental driving situations. Part 1. Overview and general statistics). These results are based on the study of disaggregated data (in-depth accidents collection databases) available via WP8 in TRACE. With the identification of the main causes and contributing factor, the aspect related to the human functional failure has been taken into account. This innovative concept studied in TRACE WP5, has been used here in order to have a more complete overview of the problems in working on each road users involved in the accident and not only on the whole accident