Aim This article aims at giving an overview of five ethical problem areas relating to traffic
safety, thereby providing a general framework for analysing traffic safety from an ethical …

More than a million people are killed on the world's roads annually. Injuries vastly
outnumber deaths. The victims are overwhelmingly young and healthy prior to their crashes …

Morbidity and mortality due to road traffic injuries (RTI) is one of the few public health
problems where society and decision makers still accept death and disability on such a …

Background Motoring is an emancipation. It is both an individual freedom and a collective
freedom with car ownership at 30, 491, 000 vehicles by 2019 in Great Britain. Yet, as the …

Traffic safety work in Norway has been largely successful, and the relative number of
fatalities is among the lowest in the world. In spite of this, it is frequently claimed that the …

The paper presents some well-known ethical questions regarding priority setting of safety
work. Some traffic examples are applied to illustrate the dilemmas. Basic ethical principles …

Independent studies by both the World Health Organisation and the World Bank in 1990
have estimated that about 500,000 people lose their lives each year as a result of road …

ABSTRACT Fahlquist, JN, 2007. Moral Responsibility and the Ethics of Traffic Safety Theses
in Philosophy from the Royal Institute of Technology nr. 27. 107+ viii pp. Stockholm. ISBN …

This dissertation is based on measuring the value of increased traffic safety. The aim is to
describe and analyse these three approaches and the problem of" valuing human life" …

Transport poses a public health risk and the burden is greatest on the poorest in society.
There is a strong relationship between social class and the likelihood of road traffic injury. In …