Targeting motorcycle users to improve traffic safety in Latin America
Motorcycle riders and passengers have long been vulnerable users of motorized transport. In the Americas, with the increasing ownership of motorcycles, given the ease and lower costs, this trend is worrisome as the number of vulnerable users as well as those impacted by traffic crashes increases, sometimes masking a shift from pedestrian or bicycle casualties to motorcycle victims. These trends would be similar in regions such as Africa which also share the motorcycle-taxi (mototaxi) phenomenon.
- Tags:
- world bank
- latin america
- road safety
- motorcycle
- Urban Development
- Transport
- Latin America & Caribbean
- Virgin Islands, British
- Venezuela, Republica Bolivariana de
- Uruguay
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Suriname
- St. Vincent and the Grenadines
- St. Lucia
- St. Kitts and Nevis
- St. Helena
- Peru
- Paraguay
- Panama
- Nicaragua
- Montserrat
- Mexico
- Jamaica
- Honduras
- Haiti
- Guyana
- Guatemala
- El Salvador
- Ecuador
- Dominican Republic
- Dominica
- Costa Rica
- Colombia
- Chile
- Brazil
- Bolivia
- Belize
- Barbados
- Argentina
- Antigua and Barbuda