Determining prominent factors across system hierarchies to improve road safety in LMICs: A case study of Bangladesh

Factors affecting citizen safety of urban transportation service in Bangladesh: The case of Pabna municipality

“…This suggest that road signage and markings is key factors affecting passengers’ safety in transportation system. This finding aligns with results obtained by Hamim and Ukkusuri [ 56 ], Hoque [ 16 ], and Lamm et al [ 57 ]. Lack of proper road signage and markings increases the risk of accidents and traffic hazards as drivers may not be able to navigate safely or effectively [ 58 ].…”

Exploring improvisations in road safety in a low-income setting

“…Also, it is common in LMICs that political leaders influence decision makers following a high-profile, highly reported collisions; this pressures decision makers into acting quickly, often resulting in hasty decision-making. The systems-based approach to road collision investigation is growing in popularity in high-income countries (Salmon et al 2012;Lansdown et al 2015;, but this has only recently seen use by safety researchers in low-income countries (Hamim et al, 2020a(Hamim et al, , 2020b(Hamim et al, , 2021Das et al, 2021;Hamim & Ukkusuri, 2022). To analyse an improvisation event, sufficient information should be available to the analysts regarding the events leading up to the improvised action, as well as the consequences of that improvisation.…”

“…Instead of reforming various elements of the system individually, influencing the system as a whole should be the goal. The objective should be to find common intervention measures that will influence many elements across the system (Hamim et al, 2020a(Hamim et al, , 2020bHamim & Ukkusuri, 2022).…”