[sustran] reducing traffic speed as cost-effective health intervention

John Ernst itdpasia at adelphia.net
Tue Apr 11 14:28:00 JST 2006


An interesting news release from the Disease Control Priorities 
Project:  the new edition of their book, Disease Control Priorities 
in Developing Countries, finds that interventions to reduce traffic 
speed are among the most cost effective.

The report is not sophisticated from a transportation perspective -- 
it looks only at speed limit enforcement and speed bumps as 
interventions -- but these came out as among the most cost effective 
interventions for developing countries when compared to the many 
other expenditures possible to improve human health.

The book is available for purchase or free download, the relevant 
chapter on "Unintentional Injuries" is at http://www.dcp2.org/pubs/DCP/39.



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John Ernst   -  Director, Asia Region
    ITDP - The Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
Promoting environmentally sustainable and equitable transportation worldwide
  Visit http://www.itdp.org
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