[kictanet] Kenya' Road Safety Status

Fri May 18 12:45:34 EAT 2012

Edith

See follow this link.

http://www.unep.org/transport/sharetheroad/PDF/irap_kenya_results_2009.p
df

This was a road safety audit in 2009 of some of the roads and it will
help you see the challenge that needs to be addressed.

Kind regards

Eric Aligula Magolo, PhD

Programmes Coordinator & Ag. Head, Infrastructure and Economic Services
Division

Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA)

P.O. Box 56445, 00200 Nairobi, Kenya
Telephone:       +254-20-2719933/4
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granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I
do not shrink from this responsibility..........I welcome it."

John F. Kennedy 

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self-assessment is a very big mistake" 

Columbia University President Lee Bollinger

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checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who
neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray
twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat."

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"Ex Africa semper aliquid novi"

"Per aspera ad astra!" 

From: kictanet
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Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 11:29 AM
To: Eric Aligula
Cc: Nashon Adero; James Gachanja; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Kenya' Road Safety Status

Francis,

Good points. We should avoid "ICTs looking for the problem", but first
define the problem through an evidence-base and strategically see where
smart transport solutions would add value and address the problems -
part of the framework Mureithi alluded to.

Edith

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From: kictanet
[mailto:kictanet-bounces+eadera=idrc.or.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke] On
Behalf Of Francis Hook
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 8:42 AM
To: Edith Adera
Cc: Nashon Adero; James Gachanja; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Kenya' Road Safety Status

Hi Barrack

Thanks.   I think before integrating ICT into the mix, the enforcement
itself MUST be fixed.  Otherwise cameras will only tell us the obvious -
that traffic police and motorists are both culpable.   The word
"impunity" has oft been bandied around when it comes to Kenya and
Kenyans - I am not convinced a camera will shame anyone into proper
behavior or to uphold the law. As it were various TV stations have on
different occasions secretly filmed police taking bribes, motorists
flouting the law, etc (and pls bear in mind, unlike CCTV, TV's reach is
much wider and such coverage does "sting" more than the individuals in
the footage.   Has that helped?

 I think a solution should  solve a problem without creating others e.g.
who will monitor the cameras? OK say we get the funds to hire people to
do that. Then who will monitor those monitoring the cameras to ensure
they too do not get sucked into graft (i.e. delete footage, look the
other way, etc).   Let me take a few steps back. The traffic police are
the ones meant to monitor motorists and ensure the law is upheld.   Now
that is not happening.  So we want to mount CCTV cameras to monitor
them....then we need people to monitor those monitoring the cameras who
are monitoring the police who are not monitoring the motorists.   This
can go all the way upstream.

I think we'd be opening a can of worms if we add a layer of ICT on a
problem whose solution should first be proper  enforcement to bring
about behavioural change.   At some point the anti-corruption authority
was doing well to ambush bribe takers....I think that's the type of
solution we need first....an independent body to deal with graft.  Once
that rot is fixed, CCTV can be added to help the police themselves to
dientify hit and runs, monitor and direct traffic flows, etc etc and not
simply be a "big brother" type of device intended to scare police and
motorists to comply.

My two bits.

regards

F

On 18 May 2012 08:19, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com> wrote:

@ Francis,

Whats your take on the design issues raised by Dr. Aligula, on another
note and to emphasise on the your last paragraph people get away with
offences because the officer has the power to release you depending on
how you interface on the road, this is a deeply rooted problem can we
reduce by intergrating Cameras and other forms of technology that would
help deter waywardness. ICTs can help reinforce current enforcement
methods.

Best Regards

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Francis Hook <francis.hook at gmail.com>
wrote:

	Thank you.  It is gratifying to note the drop in casualties,
injured, etc between 2003 and 2005 - I think that is attributable to the
"Michuki rules".   

	Curious to know what happened between 1977 and 1979 to cause a
drastic drop (looks like 100% y-o-y) in "serious injuries per 100
casualties"? (in the "Crash survival rates chart). 

	Looking at "Road risk travel patterns" - where it shows the
"fatalities per 100,000 vehicles" seems to show an all time low (since
1963) in 2011.  I think to "read" this accurately we'd perhaps want to:

	1 - Compare the population growth rate vs growth rate of
vehicles on the road.  If the human population has grown faster, then
naturally the fatalities per 100k vehicles will be lower - a distortion
I think.  

	2 - Between 1963 and 2011 there have been more roads built, more
towns developed, etc ergo more time spent on the road, longer distances
travelled collectively, greater time spent on the roads, etc and perhaps
higher probabilities of accidents happening.  Also I would like to think
the types of roads themselves increase the risks of accidents by
speeding - higher chances of fatalities on smooth tarmac than on a lumpy
murram back road.

	Just my two bits.  However, some of the listers feel ICT can
help with the issue of Thika Road - but your stats esp for 2003-2005
CLEARLY show that slight changes to the traffic code and proper
enforcement can help turn this around.   So lets pass the buck to the
minister of transport, the traffic police etc.

	On 17 May 2012 18:00, Eric Aligula <jairah at kippra.or.ke> wrote:

		Listers

		As you debate the very grave road safety situation in
Kenya, we would wish to share this preliminary information from a study
we are conducting on the accuracy of road safety data.  Good data is
critical for effective policy formulation, implementation and
evaluation.  Anecdotal evidence suggests a significant level of
underreporting, compounded by errors in other complimentary data sets.

		However, on the basis of what is available, we aver that
the major problem in respect of road safety in Kenya is a human problem.
That is our weakest link. How to deal with it is key.

		It is very broad brush and we welcome feedback even as
we look for answers from Thika Road.

		Kind regards

		Eric Aligula Magolo, PhD

		Programmes Coordinator & Ag. Head, Infrastructure and
Economic Services Division

		Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis
(KIPPRA)

		P.O. Box 56445, 00200 Nairobi, Kenya
		Telephone:       +254-20-2719933/4
		Fax:                +254-20-2719951
<tel:%2B254-20-2719951> 
		E-mail:            jairah at kippra.or.ke
<mailto:jairah at kippra.or.ke> 
		URL:              www.kippra.org
<http://www.kippra.org/> 

		Proudly Kenyan, Kenyan by Nature!

		"In the long history of the world, only a few
generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour
of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility..........I
welcome it."

		John F. Kennedy 

		"To allow other people's assessment of you to determine
your own self-assessment is a very big mistake" 

		Columbia University President Lee Bollinger

		"Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious
triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those
poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live
in the gray twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat."

		Theodore Roosevelt

		"Ex Africa semper aliquid novi"

		"Per aspera ad astra!" 

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