Written by INDUS MED NEWS 21 February, 2016 2:17 am .
INDUSEM Leaders participated as experts at The Institute of Road Traffic Education (IRTE) lead high level Summiton the Safety of Powered Two-Wheelers in Traffic, with special focus on the South East Asia. It was held on 17th and 18th February 2016 in partnership with the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India (MORTH) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of the United States Department of Transportation (NHTSA). The Meeting was conducted in consultation with the Road Safety Forum (WP1) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) and supported by the FIA Foundation.
INDUSEM Leaders Professor Sanjeev Bhoi (AIIMS) Professor Amit Gupta (AIIMS) Professor Ajai Singh (KGMU) and Dr. Tej Prakash (AIIMS) conducted the round table on health related safety issues for Two Wheeler Drivers in presence of WHO Leader Dr. Nayar.
According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 1.2 million fatalities occur in road crashes globally each year. Fifty nine percent of these fatalities occur in the Asia Pacific Region, and crashes involving powered two-wheelers account for an estimated 34 percent of these deaths.
Working Party 1, the Road Safety Forum of the UNECE, in its celebrative 70th session in March 2015, held a Roundtable dedicated to powered two-wheeler safety policies. The Roundtable recognized an urgent need for program and policy development concerning powered two-wheeler safety among nations in South East Asia and recommended that guidance in the form of model legislative framework could facilitate such development.
The Roundtable suggested that such guidance could be created by engaging governmental agencies, research bodies and academic institutions from this region to identify two-wheeler safety problems which are common – and may be unique – to South East Asia and to outline the types of guidance that could be offered by Working Party 1 to facilitate safety improvements.
This conference followed up on these Roundtable recommendations by convening experts from across South East Asia to prescribe the content of proposed model legislative framework for powered two-wheeler safety.
Shri. Rohit Baluja who is the President of IRTE was the brain child and leader of this meeting. Shri. Baluja also is the winner of the 2016 INDUSEM Award for Social Engineering “Samajik Abhiyantrik Samman”
About IRTE
The Institute of Road Traffic Education (IRTE) was established in December 1991. The IRTE research initiatives have delivered proven results, which have been adapted in developing countries like India for improving the basis of traffic management systems.As a member of the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration and the Commission for Global Road Safety, IRTE Supports the Decade of Action for Road Safety and implementation of a five pillar Action Plan.In the process of research, IRTE’s tools, systems and methods of training in all areas of traffic management have been benchmarked and training courses imparted by the institution have been most successful. The vision of creating an Umbrella facility for research based training towards capacity building in road safety management for India and other developing countries is taking shape as The College of Traffic Management. For more Information
About INDUSEM
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