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Saving lives beyond 2020: The next steps
Road safety analysis can be used to understand what has been successful in the past and what needs to be changed in order to be successful to reduce severe road trauma going forward and ultimately what\u27s needed to achieve zero. This chapter covers some of the tools used to retrospectively evaluate real-life benefits of road safety measures and methods used to predict the combined effects of interventions in a road safety action plan as well as to estimate if they are sufficient to achieve targets near-term and long-term. Included are also a brief overview of methods to develop boundary conditions on what constitutes a Safe System for different road users. Further to that, the chapter lists some arguments for the need of high-quality mass and in-depth data to ensure confidence in the results and conclusions from road safety analysis. Finally, a few key messages are summarized
Mobility in a Globalised World 2012
The term mobility has different meanings in the following science disciplines. In economics,
mobility is the ability of an individual or a group to improve their economic status in relation
to income and wealth within their lifetime or between generations. In information systems and
computer science, mobility is used for the concept of mobile computing, in which a computer
is transported by a person during normal use. By designing logistics networks, logistics creates
the infrastructure for the mobility of people and goods. Electric mobility is one of today’s
solutions from an engineering perspective to the problem of reducing the need for energy resources
and environmental impact. Finally, for urban planning, mobility is the crunch question
as to how to optimise the different needs for mobility and how to link different transportation
systems. In this publication we have collected the ideas of practitioners, researchers, and government officials about the different modes of mobility in a globalised world, focusing on both domestic and international issues