ATRANS and IATSS joint session entitled
“Data Collection on Motorcycle Crashes”
International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences (IATSS) and Asian Transportation
Research Society (ATRANS) held the joint session entitled “Data Collection on Motor Cycle
Crashes" in 12th annual conference.
Delegates from each organizations (Bangladesh, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand,
Vietnam, Japan) shared the information and discussed the current situation.
- ◆ Time
- 22nd, 23rd August 2019
- ◆ Venue
- The Chatrium Hotel Riverside, Bangkok, Thailand
Session theme & background
Data collection on Motorcycle Crashes
- To reduce the fatalities caused by traffic crashes, the evidence based analysis
and countermeasures are needed. - IATSS has learned that data collection systems differ from country to country
and also it is one of the key issues around the globe. - Some countries say that they have already built their own traffic crash data
collection and management system. Sharing their experience will help others
to break through their issues. - At the same time, as building such system requires more time, each country
already might have introduced some countermeasures.
Series of the session (draft)
1st year (2019) : Share Current Situation
- Participants share “the way to collect data”, “kinds of data”, “data management” in each country.
2nd year (2020) : Find Needed Data
- Through data analysis, participants specify the data which will be needed to
analyze traffic crashes.
Final year (2021) : Find Countermeasures
- As a goal of the final year, participants are to find countermeasures.
- As a goal of a series of these sessions, ATRANS and IATSS would like
participants to present the discussion outcome to the decision maker and
improve their motivation for the reduction of traffic crashes.
Agenda
Dr. Sumet ONGKITTIKUL (ATRANS / Director, Thailand Development Research Institute)
Mr. Toru YOSHIHARA (IATSS General Manager of the Research Division , Japan)
Ms. Mirjam SIDIK (CEO, Asia Injury Prevention Foundation, Vietnam)
Dr. Sumet ONGKITTIKUL (ATRANS / Director, Thailand Development Research Institute)
Dr. Md. Abu TALAB (Center for Injury Prevention and Research, Bangladesh)
Dr. Shaw Voon WONG (University Putra Malaysia)
Dr. Ricard G. SIGUA (University of Philippines)
Dr. Niranga AMARASINGHA
(Senior Lecturer, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology)
Dr. Phathai SINGKHAM
(Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand)
Dr. Satoru KOBAYAKAWA (Nihon University, Japan)
Mr. Toru YOSHIHARA (IATSS General Manager of the Research Division , Japan)
Organizer’s note
IATSS and ATRANS are grateful for all participants’ cooperation.
This “2 days session on data collection” was the first collaborative initiative
for us. Experts from each organization shared and discussed the current
situation. Through the discussion, we achieved the primary objective, sharing
current situation. In addition, we could find important viewpoints as follows.
- 1) Establishing common systems in Asia for management and analysis on
crash data, like IRTAD - 2) Observing actual crash site, not merely relying on crash data
- 3) Considering how to improve expertise in data collection for parties including police
- 4) Integrating and analyzing the crash data collected by each organization
We would like to continue this session with all participants.
Thank you very much.
