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EDUCATION & AWARENESS
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| • More regular and consistent educational efforts focusing on groups, populations and areas that are prone to RTIs |
| • Establishment of a social network or online Management Information System (MIS) for "recording the experiences of injured or dead motorcyclists" by motorcyclists or their families to educate and inform the community and policymakers to use the data of these social networks and MIS to offer intervention solutions |
| • Creating an allocated page at Dezful University of Medical Sciences (DUMS) to provide information on the prevention of RTIs |
| • Regular education and training of government officials and entities involved in the prevention of RTIs |
| • Implementing road safety education through planning school syllabus especially for male junior and senior high schools students who are motorcyclists-to-be |
| • Public education to prevent the dangers threatening pedestrians, especially urging them not to wear dark clothes at night |
| • Use of new media and social networks to educate the public and provide them with information on road accidents' prevention |
| • Development of standards for producing effective educational media such as posters, infographics, infomotions, clips, videos, educational messages, etc. and notifying all organizations producing educational media in the field of RTIs |
| • Supervising the proper implementation of developing educational media such as posters, infographics, infomotions, clips, videos, educational messages, etc. and notifying all organizations involved in producing educational media in the field of RTIs and encouraging organizations that have produced works in this field; through media awards, etc. and through cooperation with all organizations involved in the issue |
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LAW ENFORCEMENT AND LEGAL ACTIONS
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| • Annual and random monthly technical inspection of motorcycles |
| • Civilian oversight of police negligence towards motorcyclists by taking photos and recording videos and sending it to the 197 police call center |
| • Legally dealing with motorcyclists under legal age, confiscation of their motorcycles and making the motorcyclists and their parents pledge not to do so again |
| • Declaring wearing helmets by motorcyclists and their companions mandatory |
| • Declaring wearing helmets for motorcyclists working with state institutions and service organizations, and taking disciplinary actions against such employees who violate the law |
| • Identifying accident-prone areas and further tightening the enforcement of traffic laws in these areas |
| • Strict implementation of laws and penalties related to driving violations through creating the required platform and legal support |
| • The seriousness of the authorities in enforcing and observing the existing laws by all drivers and motorcyclists |
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ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIONS
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A. Road Engineering and urban planning
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| • Providing proper lighting for dark passages by municipalities |
| • Quick filling in of trenches dug by gas, water, electricity, telephone companies and those dug by other municipal services providers, and installing proper warning signs for pedestrians and motorcyclists |
| • Regular marking of streets and roads and using high quality and long-lasting paints |
| • Pruning trees in places where traffic signs and signs have been obscured |
| • People reporting the trenches which have not been filled in, traffic signs covered with tree branches, and other urban traffic barriers to the 137 municipal call center |
| • Improving road conditions: creating proper shoulder, repairing damaged parts of the asphalt and/or asphalting those parts without asphalt |
| • Practical use of suggestions made for policy makers, and knowledge-based and research-based decision-making by managers involved in RTIs |
| • Constant review and monitoring of probable environmental problems and those related to traffic signs and road signs that we face with on a daily basis on urban and suburban roads by the Municipality and the Department of Roads and Urban Development and Traffic Police department |
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B. Preparing Parking lots
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| • Constructing more parking lots near clinics, hospitals, markets, bazars, medical laboratories, and administrative complexes and old ancient sections of the city and facilitating laws for building parking lots by the private sector |
| • Ensuring good quality roads and streets are built in newly built sectors of the city with adequate width which are multi-lane |
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COLLABORATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS
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| • Expanding and maintaining inter-organizational and intra-organizational communication between public and private organizations effective in preventing road accidents |
| • Inter-organizational coordination between organizations involved in providing services and urban development |
| • Lobbying to attract the attention of organizations that are effective in reducing and preventing RTIs rate |
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RESEARCH
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| • Conducting field research and in-depth interviews with motorcyclists and investigating the reasons why they do not observe motorcycling safety, especially the case of not wearing a helmet and not obtaining a motorcycle riders' license |
| • Conducting field research and in-depth interviews with motorcyclists and investigating the reasons why they do not observe motorcycling safety, especially not wearing a helmet and not obtaining a motorcycle riders' license in other cities with high statistics of motorcyclists' road accidents |
| • Conducting field research and in-depth interviews with motorcyclists who observe the safety of motorcycling, especially wearing helmets, and holding motorcycles rider's license to find elements that promote their safety behavior |
| • Publishing the executive report on researches conducted on road accidents prevention for the city executive managers |
| • Publishing the results of researches conducted on road accidents prevention in simple words and using new media facilities for the general public |
| • Investigating other factors impacting RTIs such as managerial-organizational ones or vehicle-related factors |
| • Conducting intervention studies aimed at determining the effectiveness of the proposed solutions implemented for the prevention of RTIs |
| • Given the cultural discrepancies and various context of each region that may affect the perception of others, to determine the impact of the proposed interventions and existing policies for prevention taking into account the infrastructure of each region |
