Upskilling and reskilling the transport industry for current and future challenges

Abstract

Most low- and middle-income countries do not have sufficient systems for gathering and analysing data of traffic crashes. This shortfall hampers their ability to monitor, advocate for, oversee, and enhance road safety effectively. In most African countries crash data is still in physical paper forms at police records, but digitising it would make it more accessible to carry out necessary activities and implementations towards the Road Safety Vision. Digitisation of road safety data, when carried out in a controlled pattern, would help bring all countries in Africa and the globe at large to a similar platform to comply with the same standards and assessment procedures to achieve the road safety goal as stated by the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.6. Hence, implementing the digital technologies described in this essay in conjunction with equipping personnel who manage road safety data with the requisite expertise to operate them at the various stages from collection at the crash scene to the end users is crucial in bringing the Road Safety Vision of halving the global road fatalities every succeeding decade to a reality.