Transportation Scenes in Modern China - 2008

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As China feverishly builds one of the largest freeway systems in the world to meet its ever-increasing demand for highway transportation "stimulated by the unprecedented economic boom" traffic safety has become a serious concern. The problem of more than 100,000 annual traffic fatalities is threatening the country's sustainable economic development. The significant differences in road user behavior, level of motorization, traffic enforcement practice, roadside design criteria, and economic development stage make the characteristics of traffic crashes in China somewhat different from those in developed countries.