Citation

Abdo AMA, Akash B, Mohsen MS, Akash O. Int. J. Appl. Eng. Res. 2016; 11(6): 4076-4080.

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(Copyright © 2016, Research India Publications)

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Abstract

Traffic safety on roads have become one of the top priority worldwide. Many studies were conducted to promote traffic safety and awareness. This paper reviews and analyzes the traffic safety and awareness research status in the Arab countries using Scopus database. The results may be valuable to researchers, governmental agencies or decision makers to evaluate the contributions of the Arab countries in the field of traffic safety and awareness and how it compares to other countries. Scopus database was utilized to outline and identify the active Arab countries and institutions in the field of traffic safety and awareness. In terms of the largest contribution, Saudi Arabia has the highest research output with more than 21% of the published articles on traffic safety and 27% of published articles on traffic awareness. Even though the rate of fatalities caused by traffic accidents is very high in the Arab countries, gathered data showed the Arab countries falls behind when it comes to traffic safety and awareness research with only 1.3% and 3.1% of published articles worldwide on traffic safety and awareness, respectively.

Keywords: Traffic Safety, Traffic Awareness, Arab Countries, Scopus, Database.

Language: en