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Observations on a methodology transfer for qualitative road accident analysis obtained from French Detailed Accident Studies (DAS) to Colombian road accidents proceduresNearly 90% of the traffic accidents that occur worldwide happen in emerging countries. And yet road safety remains a little-studied subject in these countries, and notably accidentology studies which provide a wealth of information. One of the major problems in studying road accidents in emerging countries lies in the absence or lack of reliable accident data. Indeed, while the comprehensive accident analysis methodologies used in developed countries provide an understanding of the origin of accidents and accident processes, as well as making it possible to define suitable, effective actions, they require reliable and relatively detailed accident data. These methodologies are notably based on detailed accident studies (DASs) and their adaptation to the analysis of accident reports. Colombia has an infrastructure for gathering and storing traffic accident data that can be used to perform comprehensive accident analyses. This article defines the feasibility context for a technology transfer (clinical accident analysis) to the Colombian equivalent of accident reports. These observations are part of a doctoral thesis prepared jointly between the IFSTTAR Accident Mechanisms Research Unit and the University of the Andes in Bogota.

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The French urban transport plan (PDU) and the Italian urban traffic plans (PUT) are tools for thinking about movement in the city. Set up at either the scale of the city or the whole urbanized area, their objective is to promote public transport and the least polluting forms of transportation. If the objectives of the two plans are identical, they present notable differences in the way they were worked out. Whereas the PDU is only a strategic document, the Italian law has anticipated that the PUT would actually intervene in the city at several scales. This organization in «nested doll» fashion facilitates information and dialogue with the population and the stages of public inquiry advocated in France and Italy.