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The Safe Systems Pyramid: A new framework for traffic safety

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Organisation:
ScienceDirect

Media type:
Guidance

Topic:
Planning, design & safety

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Town centres / Urban, Countryside / Rural

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An article presenting a new framework for promoting transportation safety, integrating concepts from public health.
Researchers in the US reviewed prior efforts to combine public health into transportation safety, with a call for transportation professionals to understand their role as public health professionals, and suggests a new Safe Systems Pyramid framework to help shift thinking.
The Safe Systems Pyramid highlights changes that have the greatest public health impact while requiring the least individual effort. Education is at the top of the pyramid, with the least impact, and changes to the built environment and socioeconomic solutions are at the bottom, with the greatest impacts. Kinetic energy is the cause of injuries in traffic collisions, and approaches to prevent or limit its transfer to human bodies must be used to prevent traffic injuries, for example altering road layouts to shorten crossing distances, forcing drivers to slow down and limiting the amount of time pedestrians are at risk.
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