Rochelle Sobel'in 8 Nisan 2011 günü Sürdürülebilir Ulaşım 2011 Kocaeli'de yaptığı sunum. Presentation done by Rochelle Sobel on 8 April 2011 during Sustainable Transport 2011 Kocaeli, Turkey

1. Association for Safe International Road Travel
ASIRT
Sustainable Transportation
Sustainable Transportation
Kocaeli, Turkey
Kocaeli, Turkey
6‐8 April 2011

2. ARON SOBEL age 25
Killed on May 3, 1995 along with 22 other passengers in a bus
crash on the Bodrum‐Izmir Highway near Lake Bafa in Turkey

3. Anatomy of a Crash
•The Driver
•The Road
•The Vehicle
•The Time and C di i
Th Ti d Conditions
•Emergency Medical Response

4. ASIRT s
ASIRT’s Mission
ASIRT was founded in 1995 to
promote global road safety through
education and advocacy
- - - - - - - One World – One Road - - - - - - -

5. Current Global Crisis
1.3 Million people are killed in road crashes every year
An additional 20-50 Million people are injured
Over 1000 young people die every day in road crashes
worldwide
Over 90% of the world fatalities occur in middle and
low i
l income countries
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6. Predicted road traffic deaths
per 100 000 people b region (source WHO)
100,000 l by i
REGION 2000 2020 TREND
East Asia and Pacific 10.9 16.8 54%
East Europe & Central Asia 19.0 21.2 12%
Latin America & Caribbean 26.1 31.0 19%
Middle East & North Africa 19.2 22.3 16%
South Asia 10.2 18.9 85%
Sub-Saharan Africa 12.3 14.9 21%
High Income Countries 11.8 7.8 34%

7. Five U.N. Resolutions since April 2004
• U.N. General Assembly recognized importance of
global road safety; designated World Health
Organization as coordinator f road safety issue.
O i ti di t for d f t i
• Established U.N. Road Safety Collaboration
• Focused particular attention on 5 major factors:
helmets, seatbelts and child restraints, speed,
drinking and driving, and infrastructure
• Called for Global Road Safety Week, World Day of
Remembrance
• Called for Global Ministerial meeting

8. Goals of the Decade of Action
2011-2020
 Stabilize and then reduce the level of road
fatalities
 Avoid more than 5 million deaths and 50
million injuries, saving $3 trillion
 Encourage p
g political and resource commitments
both globally and nationally
 Accelerate the adoption of
good practices in lower- and
middle-income countries

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10. ASIRT’s Agenda
Civil Society
Corporations
Media
International Study
Organizations Abroad Governments
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Tourist Medical
Industry Community

11. Strengths of Grassroots NGOs
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• Easy multi sector partnering, collaborative
multi-sector partnering
• Works from bottom up and from top down
• Independent commitment
• Firsthand knowledge and awareness
• Targeted campaigns
• Hands on experience
• Local focus - know the problems, the
community, the resources

12. Vietnam
Jordan
Egypt
ASIRT
WORKS
AROUND
Kenya THE
GLOBE
Turkey

13. STATISTICS ON ROAD CRASHES IN TURKEY
• Casualties per year: 10,000; Injuries per year:
200,000
• Majority of deaths are drivers and passengers in
4-wheel vehicles (55%)
( )
• Pedestrians (19%), cyclists and motorcyclists
count for one third of all deaths on the road.
• Speed, drink-driving, seatbelt- and helmet-
wearing laws are inadequately enforced
enforced.
• Turkey’s road crash rates are 3-6 times higher
than those of European Union (EU) countries

14. Factors Contributing to Turkey Crash Rate
(Court of Audits Aug 12, 2008)
Audits, 12
• 95% of passengers, 92% of cargo use highways
• Speeding, aggressive driving, ignoring lanes,
inadequate training
• Inadequate traffic signs/lane designations
• Lack of adequate enforcement
• Better roads have led to increased speeding
• Low priority given to pedestrian safety
• Low seat belt usage
• Lack of adequate bus safety

15. Road fatalities per 100 million vehicle km.
12
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16. Popular Tourist Destinations
COUNTRY FATALITY
RATE How Safe Are Their
Mexico 10.4 Roads?
Turkey 7.1
Spain
S i 3.1
31
Greece 2.7
Italy 2.7
Statistics given in
France 1.6 fatalities
f t liti per 100 Milli
Million
Germany 1.6 Vehicle Kms (compared
Canada 0.9
09 to 0 9 in the United
0.9
United States 0.9 States)
United Kingdom 0.6

17. ASIRT in TURKEY

19. Building Coalitions, Gaining Support
Rotary
Governments Medical Community
Educational I tit ti
Ed ti l Institutions Community leaders
Victims & families Law Enforcement
Transport Corporations
p
Media Tourism

20. Local Problems, Local Solutions
Building a Safer Community
Collect data
Determine priorities
Safe
Plan targeted actions
Communities
Assign tasks
A i t k
Institute intervention
Evaluate results

21. Turkish
Rotary
takes the
lead in
l di
road
safety
initiatives

22. Pedestrian Overpass
Pedestrian Overpass

23. Jumping the Median
p g

24. Turkish Highway Traffic Law Article 78/1b
Motorcycle drivers and passengers must wear helmets

25. ROTARY accomplishments in Turkey
Established Safe Communities coalitions in 4 Rotary districts (Cankaya,
Mersin, Samsun, Eskisehir), formed partnerships with businesses,
government, police, medical community, schools/universities, other NGOs
Road signs
Visible
lane
markings
Traffic
Better Increased
lights
lighting Police Patrols

26. ROTARY accomplishments in Turkey
• Collected and evaluated data on fatal and non-fatal
crashes on certain roads
• Collected and presented list of black spots to
national and local governments
• Organized non-speeding and seatbelt campaigns
• Campaigned for higher fines for violators
• Lobbied for a new traffic bill
• Encouraged building of roads with median dividers

27. ROTARY accomplishments in Turkey
• Published a manual on how to establish a
Safe Community in Turkey
• Involved Roteract (young Rotarians) in road
safety projects
• Developed university
faculty and student
involvement
Bilkent University

28. ROTARY accomplishments in Turkey
• Introduced road safety programs in schools.
Local police participated in training
• Created a road safety theater for schools
(The l
(Th playwright is the Deputy Director of the TNP)
i ht i th D t Di t f th
• Provided community first-aid training
• Advocated for official recognition of Road
Safety Week and World Remembrance Day
for road crash victims

29. A Road Safety Education Center and Traffic
Park in Denizli – Dayged ISHAD
Dayged,
A community resource for information and
y
training in road safety

30. ASIRT works in TURKEY
• Met and corresponded with political leaders,
MPs, police, embassies, media,
MPs police embassies media university
professors, medical community, traffic
p
planners, Education department, NGOs,
, p , ,
Corporations, World Health Organization,
victims
• Wrote articles in newspapers
• Campaigned to legislate use
of child safety seats

31. Road Safety in Ten Countries
In 2010, a consortium of partners received
funding from The Bloomberg Family
g g y
Foundation to expand road safety to 10
low- or middle-income countries.
ASIRT partners with nongovernmental
organizations t mobilize community
i ti to bili it
support
EMBARQ works with State partners in the
area of sustainable transport

32. RS-10 Goals for Turkey
y
• Support Turkish government to implement
good practices in road safety in order to
reduce deaths, injuries and disabilities
• Focus on speed control and increasing
seat-belt-wearing rates i th cities of
t b lt i t in the iti f
Afyonkarahisar and Ankara

33. RS-10: ASIRT in TURKEY
• Along with local groups, conduct public awareness
campaigns to improve the current low compliance
rates for child restraint usage – Afyon (2.4%) and
Ankara (11.7%) – by:
– publicizing the 2009 child restraint law in Turkey
Turkey,
– emphasizing the importance of using child restraints, and
– demonstrating their p p usage
g proper g
• Foster the creation of road safety
y
organizations within universities
• Conduct seminars on speed reduction and seatbelt
use

34. A call to action
Who
Wh saves a life saves
lif
the world entire
1995 2010

35. Embracing the World