Can we cut road deaths to zero by 2050? Current trends say no. What's going wrong?
- Written by: Milad Haghani, Senior Lecturer of Urban Mobility, Public Safety & Disaster Risk, UNSW Sydney
Wolf Avni/ShutterstockLast year, 1,266 Australians died from road accidents involving at least one car and a driver, passenger, pedestrian or cyclist. The economic cost of Australian road trauma exceeds A$27 billion each year. That’s 1.8% of Australia’s GDP.
Australia has committed to an ambitious target of zero road deaths by 2050,...
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