[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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