Besides coming to specific terms on the next family visits and the railroad, the negotiators agreed to hold working-level discussions on building an industrial complex in the North Korean city of Kaesong, just a few miles from Panmunjom, and on such issues as the construction of a road between North and South Korea along the peninsula's eastern coast.
With little political will to tackle the issue of road deaths – a complicated problem that could take years to resolve – advocacy and public pressure has been crucial to drawing attention to cases like Ravindran's.
This year, the Swiss have already voted on issues ranging from the building of a road tunnel, to taxation for married couples, to changes to asylum laws.
They also serve to underline that the issue of road safety is enmeshed in a wider one - an issue about the management of London's road space, the design of its public spaces and the city's environmental and economic health.
In addition, there was an issue of building the road across First Watchung Mountain in West Orange.
The panel were unable to agree on the issue of a hierarchy of responsibility on the roads, or on driver liability, but all supported degrees of segregation, trialling inexpensive measures in the suburbs, and continued pressure on councils to encourage more people to get on their bikes in the capital.
But the issue of road transport has turned into a political battle.
Applications including the evaluation of road pricing schemes and the issue of road pricing design are employed to highlight the attractive features of the proposed H-equilibrium formulation.
Even though John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, highlighted the issue of road pricing, this week's document defines the heart of an integrated transport policy as better information and more reliable connections between various modes of transport.
The dangers of our roads brought about a memorable backlash in the form of Lieutenant Commander Bill Boaks, who tried to highlight the issue of road safety by standing against high-profile MPs in a string of elections in the 1970s and 1980s (and invariably coming last), as a "Public Safety Democratic Monarchist White Resident".
