Project overview
A multi-disciplinary, international project that takes a socio-technical systems perspective of road safety in low- and middle-income countries, funded through the National Institute for Health Research with Overseas Development Assistance funding.
Traditional road safety research has been characterised by the ‘3 E’s’ of Engineering, Enforcement and Education. Although they have provided guidance to engineers and policy makers, they do not go far enough at providing a holistic and integrated approach to road safety and fail to consider fully the wider system factors that shape road user performance and outcomes. The STARS project intends to tackle road safety from a ‘7 E’s’ perspective, with the inclusion of Ergonomics, Economics, Emergency response, and Enablement. There are four overarching objectives for achieving this work:
1. Capture the current situation in each LMIC through local data collection of the road transport system
2. Develop solutions and countermeasures from a socio-technical systems-based perspective based on the local data
3. Evaluate these solutions in simulated environments (a significant output of the project is establishing simulator facilities at each LMIC institution)
4. Disseminate findings at local and national levels in order to shape the interventions, policy and regulations to reduce road crashes and associated public health trauma.
This will enable us to deliver measurable benefits, primarily targeting a reduction in loss of life from road crashes by designing safer systems, but also aiming to reduce injury severity by improving the coordinated multi-agency effort of emergency responders.
Traditional road safety research has been characterised by the ‘3 E’s’ of Engineering, Enforcement and Education. Although they have provided guidance to engineers and policy makers, they do not go far enough at providing a holistic and integrated approach to road safety and fail to consider fully the wider system factors that shape road user performance and outcomes. The STARS project intends to tackle road safety from a ‘7 E’s’ perspective, with the inclusion of Ergonomics, Economics, Emergency response, and Enablement. There are four overarching objectives for achieving this work:
1. Capture the current situation in each LMIC through local data collection of the road transport system
2. Develop solutions and countermeasures from a socio-technical systems-based perspective based on the local data
3. Evaluate these solutions in simulated environments (a significant output of the project is establishing simulator facilities at each LMIC institution)
4. Disseminate findings at local and national levels in order to shape the interventions, policy and regulations to reduce road crashes and associated public health trauma.
This will enable us to deliver measurable benefits, primarily targeting a reduction in loss of life from road crashes by designing safer systems, but also aiming to reduce injury severity by improving the coordinated multi-agency effort of emergency responders.
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Research outputs
, 2021
, Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing and Service Industries
, 31 (5) , 546--558
DOI: 10.1002/hfm.20902
Type: article
Omar Faruqe Hamim,
Mithun Debnath,
Shahnewaz Hasanat-E-Rabbi,
Md Shamsul Hoque,
, 2021
, Ergonomics
, 64 (7) , 839--855
Type: article
Do Duy Dinh,
N.H. Vu,
, 2020
, Sociotechnical Approach to Road Safety
, 44 (3) , 238--247
Type: article
Omar Faruqe Hamim,
Md Shamsul Hoque,
, 2020
, Safety Science
, 124 , 1--14
Type: article
D. D. Dinh,
N. H. Vu,
, 2020
, Safety Science
, 124
Type: article
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