Nature and characteristics of road safety situation in ASEAN countries

3 Nature and characteristics of road safety situation in ASEAN countries 

SIDA website http //www.sida.se (last accessed 2005-05-15). 

Kenneth Asp, PhD. Per Lindskog, MSc (Eng). Ing-Marie Eriksson, and PhD student Ghazwan A1 Haji. 

The quick growth in urbanisation, number of vehicles and GDP are causing a demand for road transport networks to expand. However, in many ASEAN countries, the road infrastructure, legislation and education have not often followed this quick and sudden 

In addition, tourist traffic to the ASEAN region has also been increasing, which has led to increased traffic volumes and congestions on some roads. This has led to an increase in the number of traffic accidents. 

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