WP5

Overview

Work package 5 covers initiatives for interventions of the Public Health Sector to prevent accidents among vulnerable road users.

Aim

This work package aims to establish a comprehensive view on road injuries and their prevention, improve information and knowledge for the public health sector and tackle inequalities in road safety by identifying priorities for vulnerable road users. It also aims to create a comprehensive decision making model including the entire range of potential intervention options focusing on pedestrian and two wheelers injuries and test the effectiveness of various prevention strategies using decision analysis techniques.

Specific Objectives:

The results from this model as well as from WP3 will be used to implement two specific interventions concerning the prevention of (a) pedestrian injuries among the young (Austria) and (b) injuries among two-wheelers (motorcyclists and cyclists) (Greece), given the high injury toll in the respective participating countries.  

Overview of WP5

Module 1

Data and intervention report targeting child pedestrians in Austria

• This module will develop a comprehensive view of road traffic injuries and identify priority areas targeting vulnerable road users, resulting in two reports: interventions and data. The intervention report will focus on activities and good practices for policy makers at a European level with policy recommendations and injury indicators for the EU. The data report comprises police data coming from IRTAD and CARE and hospital accidents and emergency data from the EU Injury Database, as well as national sources. A national intervention targeting child pedestrians in Austria (school way maps in one primary school) will be designed and implemented.

Module 2 

Resource book: injury prevention of VRU and implementation actions

• This module will develop a resource book, which will be a reference for how to plan and implement successful interventions for promoting safety of vulnerable road users at the community level. Efforts will be made to disseminate this book to a large network of actors related to this field.

Module 3

Decision making analytic model

• This module aims to develop an analytic model that will analyze two specific interventions on road traffic injuries. Professor Jack Dowie from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK is the leader of this module.

Module 4

VRU intervention targeting two-wheelers

• This module is aimed to populate the model developed in the above module (module 3) as well as develop a small scale intervention for the prevention of injuries sustained by the two-wheelers. Dr. Agis Terzidis from the University of Athens, Greece is the leader of this module

WP 5 Leader:

Rupert Kisser

Austrian Safety Board, Schleiergasse 18
Vienna, Austria

Tel: +43(0)5 77 077-1300

Email: rupert.kisser@kfv.at 

NEW:

• Good and promising interventions for the prevention of injuries to pedestrians and two-wheelers-Inventory and guidebook for the health sector

• Development, implementation & evaluation of a school-based helmet promotion program 

Launched reports:

• VRU data report 'Injuries to vulnerable road users and falls in pedestrians in the EU’

• ‘Safe school ways by implementing school travel plans in primary schools in Vienna’ is an evaluation of an intervention on the prevention of child pedestrian injuries in Austria.

Publications:

• Chalabi Z, Roberts I, Edwards P, Dowie J. Traffic and the risk of vehicle-related pedestrian injury: a decision analytic support tool. Injury Prevention, 2008;14:196-201

WP5 Partners

Agis Terzidis
Athens University Medical School
CEREPRI