1. Is Your City Safer By Design?!
! Presented at Transforming Transportation 2014!
! Holger Dalkmann!
! Director, EMBARQ, World Resources Institute!
Transforming Transportation 2014!

2. Is your city
Safer
by Design?
A program of the!
Photo by Bridget Coila/Flickr.

3. Growing traffic fatalities, particularly pedestrians
=
! 1.3 million traffic fatalities a year
! 30 – 50+ % are pedestrians
3,250
Fully loaded
Boeing 747s

4. Cities are key to reducing traffic fatalities
40– 45%
of traffic fatalities
occur in urban
areas
73% of US traffic fatalities occur within
cities and 5 miles of urban areas
Source: US DOT 2006

5. 50
30
0
Stockholm
Berlin
Tokyo
Hong Kong
London
Paris
Amsterdam
New York
Istanbul
Washington DC
Chicago
Los Angeles
Ahmedabad
Surat
Mumbai
Atlanta
Recife
Bogota*
Porto Alegre
Rio de Janeiro
Lima*
Kolkata
Bengaluru
Jakarta
Sao Paulo
Montevideo
Beijing
Bangkok
Belo Horizonte
Johannesburg
Shanghai
Indore
Brasilia
Cuidad de Mexico*
Curitiba
Pune
Delhi
Leon*
Chennai
Guadalajara*
Jaipur
Addis Ababa*
Dar es Salaam*
Nairobi
Fatalities / 100,000 population
80
North America / Europe
Asia
70
Traffic Fatalities per 100,000
pop. in select world cities
60
Los Angeles
7.6 / 100,000
40
Stockholm
1.23 / 100,000
20
10
*
-­‐
indicates
metropolitan
area
Unpublished EMBARQ research

6. 70
60
50
30
0
Stockholm
Berlin
Tokyo
Hong Kong
London
Paris
Amsterdam
New York
Istanbul
Washington DC
Chicago
Los Angeles
Ahmedabad
Surat
Mumbai
Atlanta
Recife
Bogota*
Porto Alegre
Rio de Janeiro
Lima*
Kolkata
Bengaluru
Jakarta
Sao Paulo
Montevideo
Beijing
Bangkok
Belo Horizonte
Johannesburg
Shanghai
Indore
Brasilia
Cuidad de Mexico*
Curitiba
Pune
Delhi
Leon*
Chennai
Guadalajara*
Jaipur
Addis Ababa*
Dar es Salaam*
Nairobi
Fatalities / 100,000 population
80
North America / Europe
Asia
7.6 / 100,000
40
Traffic Fatalities per 100,000
pop. in select world cities
South America
Africa
Delhi
Los Angeles
31.3 / 100,000
Sao Paulo
17.1 / 100,000
Stockholm
1.23 / 100,000
20
10
*
-­‐
indicates
metropolitan
area
Unpublished EMBARQ research

7. 70
60
0
Stockholm
Berlin
Tokyo
Hong Kong
London
Paris
Amsterdam
New York
Istanbul
Washington DC
Chicago
Los Angeles
Ahmedabad
Surat
Mumbai
Atlanta
Recife
Bogota*
Porto Alegre
Rio de Janeiro
Lima*
Kolkata
Bengaluru
Jakarta
Sao Paulo
Montevideo
Beijing
Bangkok
Belo Horizonte
Johannesburg
Shanghai
Indore
Brasilia
Cuidad de Mexico*
Curitiba
Pune
Delhi
Leon*
Chennai
Guadalajara*
Jaipur
Addis Ababa*
Dar es Salaam*
Nairobi
Fatalities / 100,000 population
80
North America / Europe
Asia
South America
Africa
50
40
Traffic Fatalities per 100,000
pop. in select world cities
70
31.3
17.1 57.2
Nairobi
Delhi
/ 100,000
/ 100,000
Addis Ababa
Sao Paulo
/ 100,000
/ 100,000
30
20
10
*
-­‐
indicates
metropolitan
area
Unpublished EMBARQ research

8. Avoid, Shift, Improve – a paradigm for road safety
AVOID motorized travel through the
integration of sustainable land use and
transport planning – increasing
accessibility, saving lives, and protecting
the environment.
SHIFT to safer, healthier and more
environmentally friendly modes, such as
public and non-motorized transport. Or
preserve the current share of these modes,
particularly in emerging economies.
IMPROVE safe system design and
operations, to maximize health and
environmental efficiency of each kilometer
traveled.

9. Annual Traffic Fatalities / 100,000 pop.
Reduce driving, overall exposure
! More driving
means more
crashes
Daily VKT / Capita (Urban Roads)
US FWHA 2008

10. Reduce risk by reducing speeds
! 90% of pedestrians survive when
a car hits at 35km/h
! 75% of pedestrians survive when
a car hits at 45 km/h

11. Sustainable Transport & City safe by design
www.embarq.org!

12. Shifting to High-Quality Mass transport
BRTs have reduced
crashes in
Guadalajara

13. Implementing safer design: Mexico City
Before
Counterflow is associated with
an increase in injuries of over
120%
(EMBARQ analysis of local data)

14. Implementing safer design: Mexico City
After
Now a complete street, part of
Metrobus Line 5

15. Safer city and neighborhood design
! Smaller blocks,
connected
streets
! Walkable
amenities
! Fewer arterialoriented
superblocks
! Proximity to
jobs, city center,
transit

16. Designing safer city streets – traffic calming
Raised Crosswalks
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Pedestrian priority

17. Designing safer city streets – public spaces
Mexico City

18. What’s good for safety is good for business
! Increases productivity
and health
! Raises Property
Values
Safer Cities
€
! Improves Retail
Sales
! Fewer employees in
crashes, safer
delivery of goods to
market

19. Final remarks!
!
! Sustainable Transport save lives !
! Road safety needs an integral part of sustainable
transport – mainstream guidance!
! Solutions are good for business & economic
development!
! Time for a decade of action for road safety in cities
– part of future Sustainable Development Goals!
!

20. Thank you for your attention!
#TTDC14
www.embarq.org
Photo by Bridget Coila/Flickr.
A program of the!