As part of its Road Safety Initiative, the IDB is working with strategic partners to raise awareness about the importance of road safety during the UN Decade for Action for Road Safety 2011-2020. The IDB and Fundação Dom Cabral co-published this technical note to highlight the need for road...

The Inter-American Development Bank assigns high priority to this problem and consequently has launched its road safety strategy which aspires to minimize human, social and economic losses resulting from inadequate road safety practices. The strategy is directed at providing support to member...

Este documento, que sirve de base a la Estrategia de seguridad vial del BID, es un análisis exhaustivo del estado de la seguridad vial en los países América Latina y el Caribe. El estudio incluye un análisis de los aspectos institucionales, de financiación, planes de seguridad vial,...

Road traffic injuries are a leading cause of death and disability in Latin America. Nevertheless, road safety continues to rank low in national development priorities in the region. Estimates of the economic costs imposed by road traffic crashes on society can provide policy planners with an...

Este documento es una presentación de Esteban Diez-Roux, especialista principal de Transporte como representante de los Bancos Multilaterales de Desarrollo en el contexto del Tercer Congreso Iberoamericano de Seguridad Vial (CISEV). Este evento facilita el encuentro de los gobiernos en la...

This presentation was given by Esteban Diez-Roux and Kavi Bahlla at the Ibero-American Road Safety Conference (CISEV) which took place in Bogota, Colombia in June, 2012. This presentation describes how the high rate of traffic accidents in Latin America places a burden on economies in the...

This presentation was given by Esteban Diez-Roux and Kavi Bahlla at the Ibero-American Road Safety Conference (CISEV) which took place in Bogota, Colombia in June, 2012. This presentation describes how the high rate of traffic accidents in Latin America places a burden on economies in the...

Este documento es una presentación de Esteban Diez-Roux, especialista principal de Transporte como representante de los Bancos Multilaterales de Desarrollo en el contexto del Tercer Congreso Iberoamericano de Seguridad Vial (CISEV). Este evento facilita el encuentro de los gobiernos en la...

In the development of models analyzing the impacts of free trade agreements between countries or regions within countries, relatively little attention has been paid to potential limitations imposed by transportation infrastructure. In free trade blocks such as those represented by the European...