Abstract:
This research aims to investigate the integrated management approach among government, private and public sectors to reduce the number of road traffic accidents using the secondary data according to the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM) road traffic accident report as a quantitative method and in-depth semi-structured interview as a qualitative method. The sampling consisted of 5 road safety experts from government, 5 from private and 5 who working involved in driving and educated youth as a representative from public sectors. Multiple Regression analysis and basic statistics were used to identify the relationship of factors affecting road traffic accidents. The results revealed that the most consequences of road traffic accident were injury and death, respectively. Based on driving environment, the majority of crashes happened on a straight road during daytime. The most accident victims were in the range of over 50 years of age and the leading cause is driving exceed the posted speed limits. The most accident occurred on the road under the supervision of Department of Highways. The most factor contributing to death was the road with nonstandard characteristics such as under construction, construction, pothole, hilly road and railway crossing while the second factor was a bend road, during daylight hours. The majority deaths were in the range of 1-14 years of age and 15-19 years, respectively. The main causes were using the mobile phone whilst driving and drink-driving, respectively. The most road accident death occurred on the road in urban or sub-urban. The expected contributory factors to the number of road traffic accidents, deaths and injuries shown as follows; Model 1 - obstacle (x14) has negative affected to the road traffic accident whereas exceeding the speed limit (x4), suddenly veering into occupying space (x10), overweighting beyond legal limit (x13) and others (x16) have positive affected to the road traffic accident. Model 2 - drunk driving (x2) and drowsy driving (x12) have positive affected to the road traffic death. Model 3 - exceeding the speed limit (X4 ) suddenly veering into occupying space (X10) drowsy driving (X12) and others (X16) have positive affected to the road traffic injury.
The previous significant on collaboration among government, private and public sectors to reduce the number of road traffic accidents, generally, there was the integrated planning supporting the ASEAN community, which focusing on road safety and participation based management especially reducing the road traffic deaths during work in the private sectors and labor services. Finding the approach to gain external funding for supporting the operation on road safety. Launching the campaign and public relation for prevention and reduction the road traffic accident. Collaborating to establish the activities and training as a road show in schools for providing the knowledge on road safety. Delivering knowledge and news dissemination toward public. Government and private sectors has been providing the budget, equipment, tool and staff to support the operation of road safety. Collaborating to reduce the critical situations for student on safety road around school by arranging the campaign and public relation to encourage applying the helmet for children. Inspiring the people to avoid using motors on pedestrian and cycling path. Integrating to standardize the driver licensing system for quality of driver and license examination. Setting up the speed detector in the risk-prone area and check point for alcohol detector. Integrating to apply the technology and innovation which is in process. Developing and revising the traffic laws for implementation. Integrating to establish the website as a center of database related to the road traffic accident and be a channel for cooperation among government, private and public sectors including hospital, volunteer and foundation for humanitarian assistant on road traffic accident. Integrating to support a standard driving coaching and check the vehicles basic conditions for the candidates who attend the license examination with Department of Land Transport. Integrating the transportation system with private sectors. Integrating to setup the research team for monitoring and evaluation and revising the plan for implementation, establish the mindset of responsibility ownership and mind shift to safety behavior of drivers. Providing the knowledge and training for working age people as well as the law enforcement. For the institution development, the local administration should be the first priority as the pattern of development from community level to national level.
Keywords: Integrated management, Road accident, Cooperation from the government sector, The private sector, and the public sector