Determining Your Safe Following Distance
At a MINIMUM, during dry weather conditions, you should have at least 2 seconds of space between you and the vehicle in front of you (3 seconds is better). Do this by using a fixed object such as a bridge, tree, or even a crack or shadow in the roadway. Once the rear bumper of the vehicle in front of you crosses that object, begin to count… one-thousand one, one-thousand two, one-thousand three, etc. If you don’t make it to 2 by the time your front bumper crosses that same fixed object, you need to increase the following distance. Of course, being further away than 3 seconds isn’t only acceptable, it’s recommended. (http://www.drive-safely.net/safe-following-distance.html )(Author: Mike Rogers, Organization: Drive-Safely. Net)*
Globally, Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have the second highest road fatality rate, with 21.3* deaths per population of 100,000. Although authorities and some national organisations have taken targeted action towards increasing road safety, for example adopting national speed limits, many strategies are poorly enforced.
Through promoting collaboration, building the capacity for road safety and supporting the implementation of good practice interventions, the GRSP regional team are addressing such risks factors as seat-belts and speed.
Progress to date has delivered many achievements, including:
• Launching the GRSP city-based vulnerable user project in Morocco and holding the first ever series of cross-sectoral workshops
• Utilising GRSP recommendations in Lebanon to develop an enforcement strategy
• Delivering the ‘EuroMed Transport: Support to the MENA Road Safety Programme’, providing capacity building and technical assistance to road safety officials in key countries
(2014 Global Road Safety Partnership, no writer listed, http://www.grsproadsafety.org/what-we-do/geography/middle-east-north-africa)
Traffic congestion is linked to the economy and to pollution. The UMR estimates that traffic congestion emits an additional 56 billion pounds of carbon dioxide into the ozone. This highlights the importance of implementing transportation improvements that reduce the urban congestion problem.
Many of this year’s results do not vary much from previous years. Some of this year’s most congested cities, like Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Boston, are repeat top offenders among the 498 urban areas the report examines.
• Fuel wasted in congested traffic totals an estimated 2.9 billion gallons, which is the same as 2010 but short of the 3.2 billion gallons wasted in 2005.
• The difference in time required for a rush hour commute compared to the same trip in non-congested conditions, referred to as the Travel Time Index, remained steady at 1.18.
• The total financial cost of congestion is $121 billion, of which $27 billion is wasted time and diesel fuel from trucks moving goods.
(http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/?Article_ID=22844, Traffic Congestion Wastes Fuel and Time
February 14, 2013, National Center for Policy Analysis, no writer listed)
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