The national road traffic enforcement rules are established in the 1997 Brazilian Traffic Code and in the regulations of the National Traffic Council (CONTRAN). The National Road Safety Plan 2019-2028 contain the necessary mechanisms for effective compliance with the obligations and targets of the National Traffic System bodies. This project aims to contribute to decreasing road traffic deaths and injuries by means of technical assistance to support and to strengthen ongoing road traffic enforcement activities and enhancing the capacity of traffic officers at the state level to implement …
17 Feb 2025, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 07:31
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Columna de opinión
If you had to guess the leading cause of death for children and young people globally, what would you say? Malaria? Pneumonia? Suicide? They’re all up there, but no, it’s road crashes. Cars have been around for over 120 years, and we know how to prevent these tragedies. Yet road crashes still claim more than two lives every minute, and nearly 1.2 million lives every year. If these deaths were caused by a virus, it would be called a pandemic and the world would scramble to develop vaccines to prevent them. And yet reducing road deaths has long been overlooked, misunderstood …
The problem of traffic congestion has been studied worldwide, and it has significant economic, social and environmental impacts. ECLAC Caribbean (Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean) has been researching and seeking to put numbers on the economic impact of #traffic congestion in Trinidad and Tobago. This video offers a look at how ECLAC Caribbean approached the study of this common #development challenge.…
8 - 09 Ago
2019, 04:30 - 14:00
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Evento (Meetings and technical symposiums)
The capacity-building workshop bringed together international experts and representatives from eleven Caribbean English-speaking countries Barbados, Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Jamaica, Guyana, Saint Lucía, Saint Kitts, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, to discuss safer systems approaches and urban mobility policies; promoting a stronger regulatory and enforcement framework; optimizing data management for improved planning and policy making; as well as best practices for vehicle safety, including powered motor cycles. …