Highway security efforts in Europe supply quite a few examples and success tales from which U.S. jurisdictions are studying. Within the newest Triple-I Government Alternate, MAPFRE USA President and CEO Jaime Tamayo sat down with Triple-I CEO Sean Kevelighan to debate these learnings from an insurance coverage perspective.
“In Europe, road-related fatalities are considerably decrease than within the U.S., and we needed to get a greater understanding as to why,” Tamayo stated. “We introduced collectively main specialists and policymakers from Europe and the U.S. in transportation, city planning, public well being, and know-how to debate methods wherein we are able to enhance insurance policies, innovation, enforcement, and training round protected driving.”
Via its charitable basis, Fundación MAPFRE, the Spain-based reinsurer is devoted to “Imaginative and prescient Zero” – a motion begun in Sweden in 1997 with a aim of eliminating visitors fatalities and injury-sustaining crashes. In reference to exporting this effort to the USA, Mapfre for greater than 20 years has sponsored a program for the Massachusetts Division of Transportation that consists of a fleet of autos that patrol primary highways and thoroughfares within the state, serving to stranded motorists get again on the street.
“This system has been an awesome success,” Tamayo stated, “overlaying over 30 million miles of street since its inception.”
Along with Massachusetts, Imaginative and prescient Zero has been taking maintain in communities throughout the USA, together with metropolitan areas corresponding to New York Metropolis, Los Angeles, and Portland, Ore.
In Portland, a number of knowledge factors are serving to authorities officers higher perceive the way to cut back visitors fatalities and accidents, together with a excessive share of pedestrian crashes occurring due to lengthy distances between marked crossings. Portland has taken the initiative, constructing “a system to guard pedestrians contains frequent protected crossings, avenue lighting, a cultural acceptance of slower speeds and folks educated about the way to work together safely on the streets.”
In Imaginative and prescient Zero metropolis Hoboken, N.J., seven years have handed with no visitors fatality, whilst visitors deaths have reached a 40-year excessive throughout the nation.
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