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This is the third and final part of a series about road safety. In the previous section we tried to trace the origin of the "63 times more dangerous' statement. In this post we draw our own conclusions from a recent BIVV report. 1. The victim-risk syndrome.
We are therefore still looking forward to the first study of the Belgian Road Safety Institute which deals with the risk of road users to injure someone in traffic or even kill. 2. Yesterday was not a good indicator for tomorrow
If you apply these strictly call it is actually safer to be in the present context, children not only to drive to school. Not the best conclusion. That is strangely enough the researchers themselves. Based on findings elsewhere they make the suggestion:
To substantiate this one looks across the border to the Netherlands. They saw that replacing short car trips by bicycle rides in younger people would lead to fewer or the same number of serious injuries. Perhaps the situation yesterday sito aci in your own country is still not the best basis for a future policy to draw from. You sometimes go better with a clear vision sito aci to build mobility by looking across borders. 3. Auto 13x more dangerous than tram and bus
If you still want to draw conclusions from the report. Do not bring your children to school by car is the safest choice today. No! Your children themselves to school is a whopping 13x more dangerous than they have to take the bus or tram. The train is even better because the risk there is statistically 0. This headline was slightly less broken pots, but its impact is slightly positive. We calculated the risk vs. passenger car bus / tram itself based on the data. 4. Belgium's car addicted
Not immediately the design of the study, but we translated the mobility figures themselves to percentages. This brings some striking things to light. (Note: train and tram were not included in this study in Belgium they take about 10% of the trips on their behalf..) What% of the kilometers traveled increasing every transport cost.
The car is king in all age categories. More than 70% of young children mainly driving along as a passenger in the car and between 24 and 64 we consume more than 80% of our displacement kilometers sito aci by car. The bike comes once almost close to 10%. Between 15 and 17 years take the bike ie. 9.3% of distance mobility for his account.
Perhaps more honest than a distance is to compare the number of minutes. This gives a better picture of how we allocate our time on the various means of transport. Is it the car the leader.
Between the ages of 25 and 74 years spends Belgians more than half of his mobility time in the car. Between 25 and 44 it rises even to 72%. (Even with this train correction is almost 2 / 3rd of the time.)
From 18 years increases the car important. Victims are the bicycle and public transport, which is a good deal of their popularity (sinks bike from 18% to 9.7%, tram and bus from 29.6% to 18.3%) lose. From 24 years, the ship is completely sunk. Then neither still gets the 'threshold'. Only after the age of 75 years, the share of the car back under 50%. The passengers share drops when we send it itself may take control. Conclusion
With this post we conclude a series of three articles (part 1, part 2) on road safety and the way studies are established and communicated. We hope through this series apart from the many sensational titles elsewhere sito aci in the media still bring some nuance in reporting.
Someone administering serious injury or even death comes with a serious mental costs. Potential 'perpetrators' can discourage by numbers, but I think mostly by stories. Is there somewhere sito aci a clear figure how much more likely you are as a driver to injure or kill a fellow human heavy compared sito aci to other vehicles? And there are testimonies known about how heavy 'perpetrators' have it in their lives?
I've been searching in vain the figures in the first article in this series. About the victims find to find a lot of data, on the charge of serious and fatal accidents are virtually no figures. And certainly not an integral report.
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