A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ROAD SAFETY IN ASEAN COUNTRIES

A Comparative Study of Road Safety Situation in ASEAN Countries 

This chapter aims to determine -whether the varieties in road safety between ASEAN countries can be explained by differences in some indicators and socio-economic patterns. This chapter analyses the trends and levels of road safety among the region between 1994 till 2003. The indicators used here are traffic risk as number killed per vehicle, motorisation measured as vehicle per person, and personal risk as killed per person. Special cases of comparisons are presented when both indicators are considered together and when they interact with other indicators such as urbanisation and severity index (killed per casualties). This empirical study is supported by tables and graphs based on data gathered on our visits to the ASEAN region. This data will also be useful in testing the multidimensional index, ESDI, in the next chapter. 

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