124 Latin American J. Management for Sustainable Development, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2015 Copyright © 2015 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. A brief report on the road safety of urban roads of São Paulo City involving the elderly population Adriana da Conceição, Adriane Monteiro Fontana* and Alessandra de Freitas Lima UNINOVE – Universidade Nove de Julho, São Paulo, SP, Brazil Email: adri-solmar@hotmail.com Email: adrianefontana@uol.com.br Email: alessandra_ally@yahoo.com.br *Corresponding author Abstract: This paper presents the development of traffic safety indicators involving elderly people in São Paulo from 2003 to 2012 and discusses the most common types of accidents involving elderly in this city. It was also studied possible causes about this problem and some proposals to reduce it. The average percentage of fatal accidents increased 13.5% comparing these period. In the comparison of fatal accidents involving elderly/100,000 senior inhabitants in the city, the average is 7.55%. Comparing senior fatal victims by trampling in relation to the number of fatal accidents by elderly the average is 77.28%, while in 2003 it was 71.9% and in 2012, 85.8%. Thus, we observe that it is quite evident the increase in fatal accidents involving elderly pedestrians, a growth of 13.9%. The percentage of pedestrian accidents with fatalities involving elderly/100,000 inhabitants is 33.20%. And when is analysed for 100,000 senior inhabitants has an average of 5.85%. Keywords: traffic safety; elderly; accidents; cities. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: da Conceição, A., Fontana, A.M. and de Freitas Lima, A. (2015) A brief report on the road safety of urban roads of São Paulo City involving the elderly population’, Latin American J. Management for Sustainable Development, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp.124–135. Biographical notes: Adriana da Conceição received her Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering in 2014. She is acting as a Technical Designer, with experience in project development in reinforced concrete area. She also holds a Postgraduate in Environmental Management with emphasis in Higher Education Didacticism. Adriane Monteiro Fontana received her Bachelor’s in Engineering from the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (1998), Master and Doctor degrees in Civil Engineering: Transports from São Paulo University. She is the Dean of the College of Technology of Sao Caetano do Sul, State Center for Technological Education Paula Souza and Professor at the Uninove. She also has experience in transports engineering, focusing on planning and organisation of the transport system, acting on the following subjects: traffic safety in urban areas and vulnerable road users.