Studies Conducted at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Risk Management Recently Reported (Monitoring road safety development at regional…

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Studies Conducted at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Risk Management Recently Reported (Monitoring road safety development at regional level: A case study in the ASEAN region)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- Data detailed on Risk Management have been presented. According to news reporting out of Cambridge, Massachusetts, by VerticalNews editors, research stated, "Persistent monitoring of progress, evaluating the results of interventions and recalibrating to achieve continuous improvement over time is widely recognized as being crucial towards the successful development of road safety. In the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) region there is a lack of well-resourced teams that contain multidisciplinary safety professionals, and specialists in individual countries, who are able to carry out this work effectively."

Financial supporters for this research include Chinese Government Scholarship, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities P.R. China, Transportation Science & Technology Projects of Shaanxi province P.R. China.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "In this context, not only must the monitoring framework be effective, it must also be easy to use and adapt. This paper provides a case study that can be easily reproduced; based on an updated and refined Road Safety Development Index (RSDI), by means of the RSR (Rank-sum ratio)-based model, for monitoring/reporting road safety development at regional level. The case study was focused on the road safety achievements in eleven Southeast Asian countries; identifying the areas of poor performance, potential problems and delays. These countries are finally grouped into several classes based on an overview of their progress and achievements regarding to road safety. The results allow the policymakers to better understand their own road safety progress toward their desired impact; more importantly, these results enable necessary interventions to be made in a quick and timely manner. Keeping action plans on schedule if things are not progressing as desired."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "This would avoid 'reinventing the wheel' and trial and error approaches to road safety, making the implementation of action plans more effective."

For more information on this research see: Monitoring road safety development at regional level: A case study in the ASEAN region. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 2017;106():437-449. Accident Analysis and Prevention can be contacted at: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, England. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Accident Analysis and Prevention - www.journals.elsevier.com/accident-analysis-and-prevention/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting F.A. Chen, MIT, Dept. of Urban Studies & Planning, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States. Additional authors for this research include J.J. Wang, J.R. Wu, X.H. Chen and P.C. Zegras.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2017.07.016. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Keywords for this news article include: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America, Risk Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.