Press Release
Paris, 19 June 2012
New Road Safety Database for Latin
America and the Caribbean
The development of effective, evidence-based road safety policies is at the heart of an
initiative unveiled by the International Transport Forum at the OECD, the...
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Press Release
Paris, 19 June 2012
New Road Safety Database for Latin
America and the Caribbean
The development of effective, evidence-based road safety policies is at the heart of an
initiative unveiled by the International Transport Forum at the OECD, the World Bank, the
Ministries of Interior of Spain and Argentina, and the Ministry of Health of Mexico in Bogotá,
Colombia on 13 June.
A Memorandum of Understanding to establish a new database covering road safety data for
the 20 countries participating in the Ibero-American Road Safety Observatory (OISEVI) was
signed on 13 June during the 3rd
Ibero-American Road Safety Congress (CISEV).
The database, to be known as IRTAD-LAC (for Latin America and the Caribbean) will be an
extension of the International Transport Forum’s well-known IRTAD database.
It will be
developed for the region with the support of the World Bank’s Global Road Safety Facility,
with data being fed into IRTAD-LAC by the road safety agencies of South and Central
Am
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