Traffic Risk and Urbanisation for ASEAN countries

Severity index is another factor of interest in international comparisons. It was calculated for each ASEAN country in 2003 as the percentage of fatalities per casualty (fatal, serious and shghtly injured). Table 4.3 shows that severity index varies with a low percentage of almost 0.85 in Thailand and a high percentage of 29.84 in Vietnam and 11.92 in Malaysia. The severity index decreases with the better medical facilities and rescue services (number of hospital beds per person or the number of physicians). 

The results from this study indicate a remarkable difference between ASEAN countries of road safety even at the same level of motorisation. The study has shown that there is a continuing increase in the number of road deaths in aU ASEAN cornitiies except 

Multi-national discipline and experts were involved in constructing and assessing the international composite indices. A.K. Sen, for instance, is a Nobel Prize holder and he is one of the key developers of the Human Development Index (HDI) in terms of his theory on poverty and welfare on a global scale (Andrew, 2004). Since 1990 the Human Development Reports (UNDP, 2004) have measured the country s 

Until now, no similar index has been developed and used in road safety issues. Most previous work in international road safely assessment has focused on one or a few indicators (as outlined in the previous chapters). Most of the macro-models compare countries road safety performance by means of risk indicators (accident rates), which are few and isolated. However, road safety represents complex phenomena, where a high number of accident factors and indicators of human, vehicle, road, enviromnent, regulation are involved. A systematic way to add up aU the potential indicators combined with weights into one index is required. This will directly compare the road safety level and progress across a large number of countries and regions worldwide. 

The proposed index in this study is the development of Road Safety Development Index (RSDI), which has been initiated from a desire to create a benchmark of national performance and development in road safety and to rank country s level on a global scale and over a time period. The first outline of the RSDI is shown in (A1 Haji Asp, 2003). 

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Figure 4.4 Traffic risk and urbanisation for ASEAN countries in 2003...

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