Publication

By increasing the knowledge regarding fatalities per road users in collision with others, stakeholders in general and industry in particular here can address specific countermeasures. The objective is to describe the nature of the work to identify road fatalities in collisions with HGV at a global level, i.e. data to build a matrix for HGV for several countries outside EU. Large HGV markets outside UE identified for further investigation in the project were: Argentina, Brazil, Japan, South Corea, USA.

Collaboration with responsible administration in the identified countries and together with IRTAD secretary made it possible to answer whether it is possible to build collision matrix in those countries. The answer was positive in Argentina, Japan, South Corea and USA. Accident data collection and analysis are enough mature to build such collision matrix. Brazil is building a sustainable system to collect accident statistics data. Recommendations for further work are delivered in the report for global stakeholders to carry on this initiative.