Road Safety in Latin America and the Caribbean: Recent Performance and Future Challenges

Background This issue of the FAL Bulletin examines road safety performance in Latin America and the Caribbean between 2000 and 2010. It also sets out the need for road safety measures to be incorporated into an integrated and sustainable mobility policy. This study is among the activities being implemented by the Unit under the project “Strategies for environmental sustainability: climate change and energy”, financed by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), as well as those undertaken by ECLAC as part of the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety. The authors of the Bulletin are José Ignacio Nazif, a consultant with the ECLAC Infrastructure Services Unit, and Gabriel Pérez Salas, Associate Economic Affairs Officer with the same unit. For more information, please contact trans@cepal.org. The views expressed in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the organization. The safe, timely and affordable mobility of people is one of the premises of sustainable development. As such, road safety must be included in public policies aimed at delivering sustainable transport.