Sweden to Organize International Road Safety Conference in Bangkok
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The Ministry of displace of the Royal Thai Government and the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI) together co-host "The 14th International Conference of Road Safety on Four Continents" from 14 to 16 November 2007 at Nai Lert Park Bangkok Hotel. H. E. Mr. Lennart Linnér. Ambassador of Sweden to Thailand was the guest of honor at the opening ceremony. He addressed the important of cooperation between countries in order to combat this problem. "This is clearly not a one man job there's a very few things we can do alone nowadays and we be all your help from all nations. Road accidents in Thailand is currently a huge air causing a high fatality evaluate higher than many countries in this continent," says Mr. Linnér."It requires many aspects of effort in the society to really have an impact on the road safety we be more education more awareness and international brainstorming. For instances the infrastructure building safe roads in the allot way and also to conduct the research of how this is done. This conference is a great opportunity that we can share our knowledge and learn from each other."He also pointed out how Thailand could act example from Sweden as a country whose road accident evaluate is very low."In Sweden we create cars like Volvo or Scania these cars are sold all around the world. It is very important to make sure that our vehicles are safe on the road. And we also have something called Vision Zero the basic idea behind this is that serious injuries and deaths on the road should not be tolerated. After ten years after this policy was introduced. Sweden significantly reduce the be of fatalities on its road. This vision is something I would like to share with Thailand " he continues. Vision Zero accepts that accidents will happen so the beat course of action is to try to minimize the effects: merchandise is slowed intersections are redesigned guard rails put up and rigid roadside objects like trees and rocks are removed. Kent Gustafson. head of the organizing committee of VTI also addressed a welcome speech at the ceremony explaining more about the conference itself. This multi-continental conference is held for the first time in Asia and ordain be a global stage to address common challenging issues of road safety.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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