Performance analysis of road safety five- pillars policies at nations’ and brazilian cities' level.

Abstract

The road traffic deaths phenomenon suggests the development of studies that consider the complex causal relationship between the factors that influence the road safety policies. For supporting effective policies and strategies on road safety, a thorough investigation of road traffic fatalities provides useful information to decision makers. The aim of the study is to propose a benchmarking method for the analysis of public road safety policies using the structural equation modelling and factor scores index approach. The main hypothesis of the present study is that there is information in the collected data set which can be used to define latent variables that have a causal relationship with road traffic deaths. The preliminary results indicated that policies aimed at encouraging users’ safe behavior were the ones that had the greatest influence in reducing road deaths followed by policies in safer vehicles, road safety management, safer roads and mobility, and post-crash response.