Cali, Colombia: Harnessing pandemic-era policy to improve road safety
Cycling has always been popular in Cali, a mostly flat city with warm weather year-round, but the pandemic has brought bicyclists into the street like never before.
Overview
Published: May 2021
The city of Cali has one of Colombia’s highest road traffic fatality rates. In response, city authorities monitored changes in speed and road traffic deaths during the pandemic to better understand some of the trends and implications for local road safety policies. The most concerning trend is that the severity of road traffic accidents may have increased during pandemic lockdown – a finding that helps justify the city’s newly strengthened speed-management measures.
Read the full case study: Using COVID-19 lockdown road-crash data to inform transport safety policy, Cali, Colombia
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