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Experiences and lessons learned during the decade: Road safety management
Ana María Pinto, Claudia Díaz, Claudia Franchesca de los Santos, Christopher Persaud, Corina Puppo, Eduardo Café, Francisco Alonso, Hernán Paredes, Manuel Rodríguez, Marisela Ponce de León, Martín Sosa, Nathalie Chiavassa, Paula Cruz, Raphaël Dewez, Franco Azzato
(2023). LlibreThe first Decade of Action for Road Safety has ended, but not without demonstrating the importance that systemic work on road safety offers towards protecting life. At the same time, it is clear that real progress in road safety requires a significant commitment of time, resources and political effort. In the Latin American and Caribbean region (LAC), over the past ten years, the growth in the rate of vehicle deaths has slowed. Unfortunately, in the last two years this trend has reversed due to the expansion of the motorcycle fleet in the region. Although it has been possible to raise awareness, create institutions, plan and implement important actions to reduce fatalities, LAC has not...
The first Decade of Action for Road Safety has ended, but not without demonstrating the importance that systemic work on road safety offers towards protecting life. At the same time, it is clear that real progress in road safety requires a significant commitment of time, resources and political effort. In the Latin American and Caribbean region (LAC), over the past ten years, the growth in the rate of vehicle deaths has slowed. Unfortunately, in the last two years this trend has reversed due to the expansion of the motorcycle fleet in the region. Although it has been possible to raise awareness, create institutions, plan and implement important actions to reduce fatalities, LAC has not obtained the same results as high-income countries, which have entirely reversed the trend in road deaths. In accordance with the above, it is possible to conceive of a second decade of action as an opportunity for LAC countries to finalize the processes initiated over the past decade and to introduce successful lessons experiences from other countries in the region. With this study, the IDB intends to guide this process of continuous improvement, highlighting the best practices and offering an overview of how to move from theory to practice, following the principles that mobility must be safe, sustainable and inclusive, while reducing the risk to all road users, especially the most vulnerable, and maintain the focus on users with special needs (people with disabilities, children and the elderly).
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Are adult driver education programs effective? A Systematic Review of evaluations of accident prevention training courses
Mireia Faus, Francisco Alonso, Cristina Esteban, Sergio Useche
(2023). ArticleInternational Journal of Educational Psychology. No.12(1)
Road safety training programs are commonly used to raise awareness of risky attitudes and behaviors. The evaluation of road safety education courses aimed at children is carried out with some assiduity. However, this does not usually occur in courses aimed at young people and adults. The present systematic review aims to identify studies that evaluate the effectiveness of road safety training programs in this population group. This systematic review followed the PRISMA methodology, by which the relevant articles based on the research term were identified. A total number of 1,336 indexed articles were filtered, and a final selection of 22 articles directly addressing the issue was obtained....
Road safety training programs are commonly used to raise awareness of risky attitudes and behaviors. The evaluation of road safety education courses aimed at children is carried out with some assiduity. However, this does not usually occur in courses aimed at young people and adults. The present systematic review aims to identify studies that evaluate the effectiveness of road safety training programs in this population group. This systematic review followed the PRISMA methodology, by which the relevant articles based on the research term were identified. A total number of 1,336 indexed articles were filtered, and a final selection of 22 articles directly addressing the issue was obtained. Search strategies were developed and conducted in WOS, Scopus, NCBI, Google Scholar and APA databases. The selected articles indicate that the effects of road safety training programs in adults are mild to moderate. Their effectiveness is substantially increased when they are aimed at improving risk perception and decision making rather than training in driving skills. In any case, more evaluations of these courses are needed to identify which tools are effective and which should be replaced by new behavior modification methods in the design of future driver education programs.
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Road Safety Seminar
Francisco Alonso
(2022). Participació en congressosDr. Francisco Alonso, Director of INTRAS, participated in the Seminar "MOBILITY SEAL: Mobility in the workplace. Operative and use of new technologies", held in Oviedo on 14 December 2022. Dr. Alonso presented the lecture entitled "Road Safety and Mobility in the workplace: Principles, foundations, methods and instruments". The seminar, organised by the Asturian Institute of Occupational Risk Prevention IAPRL, dealt with topics of interest to the organisations of the Asturian Safe Mobility in the Workplace Seal and which will have an impact on their management of occupational road safety, such as the growing focus on sustainability, the possibilities offered by new technologies on both...
Dr. Francisco Alonso, Director of INTRAS, participated in the Seminar "MOBILITY SEAL: Mobility in the workplace. Operative and use of new technologies", held in Oviedo on 14 December 2022. Dr. Alonso presented the lecture entitled "Road Safety and Mobility in the workplace: Principles, foundations, methods and instruments". The seminar, organised by the Asturian Institute of Occupational Risk Prevention IAPRL, dealt with topics of interest to the organisations of the Asturian Safe Mobility in the Workplace Seal and which will have an impact on their management of occupational road safety, such as the growing focus on sustainability, the possibilities offered by new technologies on both public and private roads, especially in the protection of the most vulnerable road users.
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Kick-off event of the Aleatica Foundation for Road Safety
Francisco Alonso
(2022). Participació en congressosDr. Francisco Alonso, Director of INTRAS, participated at the kick-off event of the Aleatica Foundation for Road Safety, which was held in Mexico on 29 November 2022. As part of the event, a round table entitled "Awareness, Education and Technology: central axes to build a road safety culture" was organised, where Dr. Alonso presented the lecture "Road safety from an Ibero-American perspective". The day after, the first meeting of the Foundation's Advisory Committee, of which Dr. Alonso is a member, took place. Set up by the company Aleatica, the Aleatica Road Safety Foundation aims to promote road safety projects initially in Mexico, with a view to expanding to Latin America and, later,...
Dr. Francisco Alonso, Director of INTRAS, participated at the kick-off event of the Aleatica Foundation for Road Safety, which was held in Mexico on 29 November 2022. As part of the event, a round table entitled "Awareness, Education and Technology: central axes to build a road safety culture" was organised, where Dr. Alonso presented the lecture "Road safety from an Ibero-American perspective". The day after, the first meeting of the Foundation's Advisory Committee, of which Dr. Alonso is a member, took place. Set up by the company Aleatica, the Aleatica Road Safety Foundation aims to promote road safety projects initially in Mexico, with a view to expanding to Latin America and, later, to Europe. Some of the objectives of the Aleatica Foundation are: * To ensure that the right to road safety is a right for everyone * To move from commitment to action: Working hand in hand with the private sector, public sector and civil society, with an integrated approach. * The aim is to have safer infrastructure, users and vehicles.
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Are social networks effective in promoting healthy behaviors? A systematic review of evaluations of public health campaigns broadcast on Twitter
Mireia Faus, Francisco Alonso, Arash Javadinejad, Sergio Useche
(2022). ArticleFrontiers in Public Health. No.10:1045645
Introduction: While public health campaigns disseminated through Twitter have multiple theoretical advantages over other strategies (e.g., a high potential reach and low economic cost), the effectiveness of social networks as facilitators of attitudinal and behavioral changes in the population seems to remain weakly supported. Therefore, this systematic review was aimed to analyze the degree of impact of healthy behavior-related campaigns as documented in scientific literature. Methods: Strictly following the PRISMA methodology, a total of 109 indexed articles were obtained, of which only 18 articles met the inclusion criteria. In addition to accessing the literature available on WOS,...
Introduction: While public health campaigns disseminated through Twitter have multiple theoretical advantages over other strategies (e.g., a high potential reach and low economic cost), the effectiveness of social networks as facilitators of attitudinal and behavioral changes in the population seems to remain weakly supported. Therefore, this systematic review was aimed to analyze the degree of impact of healthy behavior-related campaigns as documented in scientific literature. Methods: Strictly following the PRISMA methodology, a total of 109 indexed articles were obtained, of which only 18 articles met the inclusion criteria. In addition to accessing the literature available on WOS, Scopus, BVS, Medline, Cochrane Library and PubMed, the quality of the existing studies was assessed through the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) protocol. Results: The results of this systematic review revealed a small number of evaluations of the effectiveness of social campaigns disseminated on Twitter, although the quality of these studies was considerably good. Most of the research used statistics and metrics for evaluation, with residual use of other measurement methodologies. However, their effectiveness and impact on public health-related behaviors remain arguable, in view of the existence of marked tendencies to: (i) not evaluate these campaigns; (ii) evaluate them through excessively brief, ambiguous, or potentially biased indicators; and (iii) not carry out systematic follow-ups over time. Discussion: Although there is no strong evidence of the suitability of Twitter as a suitable medium for raising public health awareness on behavioral health affairs, the actual limitations identified in this review would help to optimize this paradigm and enhance the quality, reach, and effectiveness of such communication strategies.
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2nd International Road Safety Congress
Francisco Alonso
(2022). Participació en congressosDr. Francisco Alonso, Director of INTRAS, participates in the 2nd International Road Safety Congress, to be held in Istanbul from 18 to 20 November 2022. With the lecture "Key aspects for improving enforcement as a tool to increase road safety", whose authors are Dr. Alonso, Mireia Faus and Sergio Useche, the Director of INTRAS explains that the regulations, the sanctioning system and police supervision are some of the main components to increase road safety and analyses some of the principles that the application of the regulations must comply with to maximise their usefulness. 2nd International Road Safety Congress is organized by the Directorate of Traffic Institute, The Turkish...
Dr. Francisco Alonso, Director of INTRAS, participates in the 2nd International Road Safety Congress, to be held in Istanbul from 18 to 20 November 2022. With the lecture "Key aspects for improving enforcement as a tool to increase road safety", whose authors are Dr. Alonso, Mireia Faus and Sergio Useche, the Director of INTRAS explains that the regulations, the sanctioning system and police supervision are some of the main components to increase road safety and analyses some of the principles that the application of the regulations must comply with to maximise their usefulness. 2nd International Road Safety Congress is organized by the Directorate of Traffic Institute, The Turkish National Police Academy in order to reach up to date information about road safety, Exchange of information in the matter of innovative researchs and applications and contribute to scientific studies aimed at reducing deaths and injuries caused by traffic accidents in the world. Scientists, non-governmental organizations and practitioners that conducted researches and studies related to the units within the scope of the Congress have met to identify road safety problems and offer solutions.
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Análisis de la capacidad del nuevo protocolo de exploración para reforzar la dimensión preventiva de los Centros de Reconocimiento de Conductores
Francisco Alonso
(2022). LlibreLibro de resúmenes del XIV Congreso (Inter)Nacional de Psicología Jurídica y Forense.
Los Centros de Reconocimiento de Conductores son centros sanitarios donde varios facultativos, siguiendo un protocolo, realizan tareas de evaluación y pronostico. El Col.legi Oficial de Psicología de Catalunya ubica las actividades de los psicólogos en estos centros en la Guía de buenas prácticas para la evaluación psicológica forense y la práctica pericial; es decir, acentúa su dimensión forense, ya que la valoración tiene implicaciones legales, tiene un alcance legal que afecta a los comportamientos de quienes van a conducir. Es una de las tareas de los psicólogos más cargadas de responsabilidad, ya que esas implicaciones legales inciden sobre las posibilidades de movilidad autónoma de...
Los Centros de Reconocimiento de Conductores son centros sanitarios donde varios facultativos, siguiendo un protocolo, realizan tareas de evaluación y pronostico. El Col.legi Oficial de Psicología de Catalunya ubica las actividades de los psicólogos en estos centros en la Guía de buenas prácticas para la evaluación psicológica forense y la práctica pericial; es decir, acentúa su dimensión forense, ya que la valoración tiene implicaciones legales, tiene un alcance legal que afecta a los comportamientos de quienes van a conducir. Es una de las tareas de los psicólogos más cargadas de responsabilidad, ya que esas implicaciones legales inciden sobre las posibilidades de movilidad autónoma de las personas, pudiendo llegar a condiciones la vida social, familiar y laboral de quienes son objeto de esa valoración
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