Don't wait for accidents to happen

Enhancing traffic safety: prospects and challenges for Safe System approach on African continent

8–9 June 2023
Winneba, Ghana
Local organiser(s): Enoch F. Sam
The conference is organized in close co-operation with the University of Education, Winneba.

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Programme

Keynote speech

Chair: Enoch F. Sam

Albert M Abane
Department of Geography and Regional Planning, University of Cape Coast

Albert M Abane is a retired Professor of Transport Geography. He is a former Head of the Department of Geography and Regional Planning, Vice-Dean and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, former Director of the Consultancy Unit and founding Director of the Directorate of Research, Innovation and Consultancy, all of the University of Cape Coast, Ghana.  

Professor Abane has trained several M.Phil and Ph.D. students who are now senior members and staff in many of the tertiary institutions and industries/services in and outside the country. He has also partnered with colleagues in England, Norway, the USA, Malawi, South Africa and Ghana to implement research projects, including transport and mobility challenges and mobile phones and livelihoods of children. Professor Abane continues to support his Department, but part-time.

Poster session

Chair: Stijn Daniels

Causal factors of bus crashes in Ghana

Ababio-Donkor Augustus
Aboagye Marcos
Charles Anum Adams

An Observational Study of Motorcyclists’ Red-light Behaviour at Signalized Intersections in Accra Metropolis, Ghana

Thomas Ojo
Clifford Amoako
Jefferson Ikediuba
Augustus Ababio-Donkor
Charles Anum Adams
Gifty Adom-Asamoah

A comparative study of driver training regulatory systems in Ghana and Sweden, from the Safe System Approach perspective

Ary P. Silvano
Ilyas Hasan-Pisagla

Deep learning-based classification of paved road shoulder for the Namibia B2 highway

Cailis Bullard
Marco Knipfer
Erik Johnson
Abhay Lidbe
Steven Jones

Pedestrian infrastructure availability and accessibility on urban highways

Joel Asaju

Unsafe driving in Nigeria, what is and what solutions can be applied

Iniakpokeikiye Peter Thompson
Ehud Reiter
Dewei Yi

Travel Pattern and Safety among the Elderly in Ojo Lagos, Nigeria

Christy Oshikomaiya
Segun Alawa
Ibraheem Abdul-Azeez
Adetoyese Oguntimehin
Victoria Dada

Exploration of motorcyclists’ red-light running and helmet use at signalized intersections in Ghana

Mercy Lorlonyo Amegah
Emmanuel Kofi Adanu
Thomas Kolawole Ojo
Shaibu Bukari

Road safety management organization in Nigeria, measures and analysis of constraints

Abiola Fagbenro
Victoria Dada

Analyzing and Modeling Risk Exposure of Pedestrian Children to Involvement in Car Crashes

Wafa Elias

Session 1: Public transport

Chair: Christine Chaloupka

Enhancing urban traffic safety in Africa with bus rapid transport (BRT): The dynamics of road users, vehicles, and built infrastructure

Dominic Afful
John Kwame Boateng

Temporal analysis of bus crashes in Ghana

Aboagye Marcos
Ababio-Donkor Augustus
Charles Adams
Williams Ackaah
Larley Joshua

Developing a simplified model for safety management system in African transport companies

Tor-Olav Nævestad
Enoch F. Sam
Jenny Blom
Vibeke Milch

Session 2: Post-crash and injuries

Chair: Attila Borsos

Geospatial analysis of injury severity on major roads in Ghana (2005-2020): Implications for targeted injury prevention and control initiatives

Aldina Mesic
James Damsere-Derry
Stephen Mooney
Adam Gyedu
Charles Mock
Caryl Feldacker
Angela Kitali
Joshua Larley
Bradley H. Wagenaar
Daniel Hardy Wuaku
Ernest Ekuban
Maxwell Osei-Ampofo
Irene Opoku
Barclay Stewart

Describing Geospatial Access to Trauma Care after Road Crash in Ghana: A Key Step Toward Improving Post-Crash Care through Targeted Capacity Development

Manal Jmaileh
Aldina Mesic
James Damsere-Derry
Adam Gyedu
Mamadou Tounkara
Angela Kitali
Maxwell Osei-Ampofo
Daniel Hardy Wuaku
Ernest Ekuban
Ahmed Nuhu Zakariah
Yaw Osae
Christiana Achena Boatema
Charles Mock
Barclay Stewart

Injury-severity analysis of intercity bus crashes in Ghana: A random parameters multinomial logit with heterogeneity in means and variances approach

James Damsere-Derry
Emmanuel Kofi Adanu
Thomas K Ojo
Enoch F. Sam

Session 3: Society and individuals

Chair: Wafa Elias

Gap Analysis on Existing Training Provision and Capability in Road Infrastructure Safety in Tanzania

Jaqueline Masaki

Paradox of the Motorist as a Biological Organism in a Developing Country’s Traffic Safety

Nana Kwame Nsiah-Achampong
Isaac Kofi Yankson

Understanding the role of superstition in the perception of crash risk in Ghana

Emmanuel Kofi Adanu
Steven Jones
Thomas Ojo
Ethel Atefoe

Session 4: Vulnerable road users

Chair: James Damsere-Derry

Analysis of pedestrian-vehicle interactions using extreme value theory

Attila Borsos
Ahmad Kizawi
Dávid Homola

Understanding child-pedestrian injuries in Ghana: Implications for policies and supervision strategies

James Damsere-Derry
Jane Esi Monkah

Cycling usage and determinants on university campus in Ghana: The case of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Nicholas Anarfi Bofah
James Damsere-Derry

Willingness to Use the Pedestrian Bridge in Akure, Nigeria

A. O. Adeniran
S. O. Olorunfemi
Thomas K. Ojo

Predictors of engagement in distractive activities to walking in Accra, Ghana

Prince Odame
Enoch F. Sam
John Amoah-Nuamah

Using crash data as a means of identifying and defining particularly vulnerable subgroups of pedestrians in Ghana

Cailis Bullard
Emmanuel Kofi Adanu
William Agyemang
Steven Jones

Session 5: Safe System approach

Chair: Aliaksei Laureshyn

Potential for implementation of Safe Systems principles in African countries: Recommendations based on a systematic comparison of six countries

Tor-Olav Nævestad
Sam F. Enoch
Daniel Mwamba
Jaqueline Masaki
Siya Rimoy
Ladislaus Bigambo
Andras Varhelyi
Aliaksei Laureshyn
Haneen Farah
Vibeke Milch
Jenny Blom

Road safety training and capacity building – a comparison between European best practice and the African reality

Aslak Fyhri
Torkel Bjørnskau

Driver training—present and future prospects

Sonja Forward

Perspectives on a safe systems approach in Africa

William Agyemang
Emmanuel Kofi Adanu

Session 6: Traffic safety issues and measures

Chair: Emmanuel Kofi Adanu

Comparing national road safety culture among bus drivers in Norway and Ghana

Tor-Olav Nævestad
Enoch F. Sam
Jenny Blom
Vibeke Milch

Low-cost solutions for road safety improvement in Ghana

John Kwame Boateng
Dominic Afful

Economic evaluation of road safety measures: what can be learned from past approaches and can they be transferred to the African context?

Stijn Daniels

Generating consensus on road safety issues and priorities in Ghana: a modified Delphi approach

Aldina Mesic
James Damsere-Derry
Adam Gyedu
Charles Mock
Joshua Larley
Irene Opoku
Daniel Hardy Wuaku
Angela Kitali
Maxwell Osei-Ampofo
Peter Donkor
Barclay Stewart

Enhancing road traffic safety trough car use restriction: the roles of situational factors and improved mobility options

Fatai Yakeen
Mohammadreza Ghadiri

Sponsors

Volvo Research and Educational Foundations
Sweden

Alabama Transportation Institute
The University of Alabama
USA

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