Global Road Traffic Fatalities and Injuries : Data, Trends and Challenges for Making Safer Highways

The global crisis of road traffic fatalities and injuries has remained an ongoing challenge, plagued by inconsistent estimation methods, data gaps, and underreporting. With 39.5 million road deaths recorded between 1980 and 2024, understanding the accurate scale and impact of this crisis is critical. This book provides a comprehensive and evidence-based perspective on worldwide and country-specific road casualties and methods to prevent them, offering an essential benchmark for researchers, policymakers, and professionals in the field.

This book delivers the knowledge required to understand and mitigate road traffic fatalities, offering practical insights drawn from global experiences. It draws together fragmented road crash data and methodologies into a unified and cohesive global perspective. Featuring a databank of over 80,000 road traffic-related entities, the book presents a Global Road Fatality Atlas―a visual representation of road deaths across 216 countries and territories over 42 years―and explores crash data sources, reporting challenges, statistical estimation methods, and solutions for addressing underreporting. Featuring hundreds of figures and expert insights from international thought leaders, the book gives readers the knowledge to improve road safety data accuracy, enhance policy development, and lead to safer roads.

Global Road Traffic Fatalities and Injuries: Data, Trends and Challenges for Making Safer Highways will be an essential desk reference for health and safety professionals, transport and public health professionals, policymakers, engineers, law enforcement personnel, insurance analysts, researchers, and academics.

Hashim MN Almadani is a professor at the College of Engineering within the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Bahrain. He holds a PhD from the University of Leeds, UK, and MSc and BSc degrees from KFUPM, Saudi Arabia. He was a faculty member, department chair, and research council member at the University of Bahrain for over 30 years. He has taught at KFUPM and served as a visiting professor at Pisa University, Italy, and Imam Abdulrahman University, Saudi Arabia. He is a recipient of the Bahrain Crown Prince Award, and he founded the Bahrain Center for Transport Studies, which has led to major road safety initiatives. He has published over 60 papers and books on road fatalities, traffic safety, and traffic modelling and serves as a UN-ESCWA traffic safety consultant.