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Benchmarking Road Safety in Latin America

International Transport Forum - 2017

Road safety is a major issue in Latin America and substantial actions are needed to reduce the number of road deaths and injuries. This report describes and benchmarks road safety management and performance in ten Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba,...

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Road Safety in Cities : Street Design and Traffic Management Solutions

OECD / International Transport Forum - 2022

This booklet presents measures that effectively reduce road traffic deaths and serious injuries in cities. It covers urban street design, traffic management and improving mobility options. Measures are illustrated with examples reported by cities collaborating in the ITF Safer City Streets...

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Motorway Safety in Korea : Learning From International Best Practice for an Action Plan to 2030

OECD / International Transport Forum - 2021

Motorway crashes kill over 200 people in Korea each year. This report reviews international best practices in motorway safety across ten countries to inform ways to make Korea’s motorways safer. Matching the average safety performance observed across Germany, Japan, the Netherlands and the...

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Safer Micromobility

International Transport Forum - 2024

In 2020, the ITF published Safe Micromobility, a report assessing the safety of micromobility and new mobility services. In the four years since publication, much has changed in terms of the evidence base regarding the safety of micromobility. This report summarises an analysis of the current...

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Using safety performance indicators to improve road safety : The case of Korea

International Transport Forum - 2023

More than 1.3 million people die each year in road crashes, with millions more suffering life-altering injuries. The Safe System approach aims to eliminate deadly crashes through a comprehensive, shared-responsibility framework. This report offers guidelines for establishing Safety Performance...

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Monitoring Progress in Urban Road Safety : 2022 Update

International Transport Forum - 2022

This report tracks the progress in reducing the number of road traffic fatalities and serious injuries in cities between 2010 and 2020. It presents traffic safety data collected in 32 cities participating in the ITF Safer City Streets network and compares trends in urban and national road...

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Energy and exergy analysis of hydrogen-oriented coal gasification with CO2 capture

Liszka, Marcin; Malik, Tomasz; Manfrida, Giampaolo - In: Energy 45 (2012) 1, pp. 142-150

Coal gasification is seen as an attractive way for hydrogen production. The main advantage of this approach is the low …, pressure-swing adsorption process for hydrogen separation, combined cycle for power production and essential auxiliary … loss takes place in the gasifier. The overall exergy efficiency of the coal-to-hydrogen system is equal to ca. 57%, while …

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Exergetic evaluation of 5 biowastes-to-biofuels routes via gasification

Sues, Anna; Juraščík, Martin; Ptasinski, Krzysztof - In: Energy 35 (2010) 2, pp. 996-1007

gas), methanol, Fischer–Tropsch fuels, hydrogen, as well as heat and electricity, from several biowastes generated in the … synthesis is preferred when exergetic efficiency is the objective parameter, but hydrogen process is more efficient when the …

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Exergy based performance analysis of hydrogen production from rice straw using oxygen blown gasification

Bhattacharya, Atmadeep; Das, Anirban; Datta, Amitava - In: Energy 69 (2014) C, pp. 525-533

An exergetic analysis has been performed on a gasification-based bio-hydrogen generation system consisting of an ASU … operating parameters on the hydrogen yield and cold gas efficiency. It is observed that, with 95% oxygen in the gasifying agent … and with gasifier equivalence ratio of 4.0, the process generates 107.8 g hydrogen per kg of dry biomass (on ash free …

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Advances in hydrogen production by thermochemical water decomposition: A review

Rosen, Marc A. - In: Energy 35 (2010) 2, pp. 1068-1076

Hydrogen demand as an energy currency is anticipated to rise significantly in the future, with the emergence of a … hydrogen economy. Hydrogen production is a key component of a hydrogen economy. Several production processes are commercially … other hydrogen production processes. Recent advances in hydrogen production by thermochemical water decomposition are …

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