


New report tackles the transition to automated vehicles on roads that cars can read
Serious crashes on inter-urban roads may be slashed by a quarter over the next 30-40 years with the introduction of automated vehicles. However, the journey may be far from easy, with a mixed fleet transition and vital need for roads that cars can read, according to a...
EVENT WRAPUP: ROAD SAFETY ON FIVE CONTINENTS (RS5C)
Summary The Road Safety on Five Continents (RS5C) conference was held on 16-18 May 2018 on Jeju Island, South Korea. The conference was organised by VTI in close cooperation with Korea Transportation Safety Authority (KOTSA) and Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and...
EVENT WRAPUP: ITF2018
Summary iRAP played a lead role at the 2018 International Transport Forum Summit (ITF2018), held 23-25 May in Leipzig, Germany. With this year’s theme of “Transport Safety and Security”, the annual summit is the world’s largest gathering of transport...
New Vaccines for Roads Big Data Tool Set to Save Lives
iRAP’s Vaccines for Roads new Big Data Tool being launched today at the ITF Summit in Leipzig provides for the first time an interactive health check on how safe the world’s roads are and the road attributes that matter, along with the projected human life and...
Join us in Leipzig
Join us in Leipzig this week from 23-25 May when iRAP, its partners and safer roads saving lives are in the spotlight before 1400 decision-makers and 40 ministers from more than 80 countries. Key to iRAP’s participation will be the launch of Vaccines for Roads IV,...
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Seeking a Project Director, Project Officer and Road Safety Engineer!
EuroRAP are currently looking for a Project Director, Project Officer and Road Safety Engineer keen to save lives on safer roads in Europe and in particular on a 12 country road infrastructure safety project in the Danube region. Job descriptions are listed below, the...
SR4S Lead Partners gather at UN meetings in New York
The key to success of the Star Rating for Schools approach is the involvement of experienced and committed Lead Partners who will build the process into their successful work around schools. The UN Road Safety Collaboration meetings in New York in April provided a...
Targets 3 & 4: What They Mean for Safer Roads Globally
UN Member States have agreed on 12 Global Road Safety Performance Targets to drive action across the world. The new targets were formally welcomed by the United Nations General Assembly in the latest UN Resolution on Road Safety agreed on April 12 in New York. The...
iRAP Welcomes New UN Road Safety Fund
The United Nations Road Safety Trust Fund, launched on 12 April in New York, has the potential to mobilise and unlock vitally needed financial and technical resources to make global roads safer. Officially launched by UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and UN...
PakistanRAP initial discussions
PakistanRAP is an initiative of the National Highway Authority (NHA) with support of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The iRAP and ChinaRAP teams will be providing assistance to the NHA in developing the skills to conducted iRAP assessments across the national...
Launch of EuroRAP Star Rating results in Iceland
The launch of EuroRAP Star rating results in Iceland reveal only 25% of Iceland’s roads have a 3 star or more rating. The Star Rating results of FÍB (Icelandic Automobile Association) and EuroRAP’s assessment on 4,200 kilometres of Icelandic road network were...
Star Rating for Schools at SDG Festival in Action, Bonn
“You need to create a safe environment. The goal should be for every single school around the world to have a safer environment. Safe infrastructure saves lives.” – Julio Urzua, iRAP’s Regional Director – The Americas, discussing Star Ratings for Schools...
Training for safe school zones across Africa
Yesterday, grassroots NGO members of the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety received the commitment of Kenyan policy makers to implement measures that will mean safer journeys for the 2000 children that walk to a Nairobi school every day, on the back of Star...2018 AusRAP and RACQ crash risk and star rating assessment report: Bruce Highway – Cooroy to Curra Section B
Download Click the file icon above to download the file. 2018 AusRAP and RACQ crash risk and star rating assessment report: Bruce Highway – Cooroy to Curra Section...
Bruce Highway (Queensland, Australia) upgrade given top marks for safety
The recently upgraded stretch of the Bruce Highway in Queensland, Australia has transformed the road from one of the most dangerous stretches of highway into one of the safest, according to RACQ (Source:...
FIA partnership sees SR4S pilot studies for schools in Latin America
Buenos Aires, Argentina: On the 5-6 February, iRAP’s Regional Director Julio Urzua partnered with representatives from FIA Region IV to train them in the use of the Star Rating for Schools App (SR4S). Teams were trained in both the theory and the practical usage of...
iRAP’s safer roads for Vietnam work in spotlight at BIGRS partners meeting
On the 22 January 2018, iRAP’s Senior Road Safety Engineer, Luke Rogers, was in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam for the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) partners meeting. The Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety has dedicated US$250...Analysis of changes in the rate of severe crashes for typical road infrastructure investments
Download This research was commissioned by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The report is in two parts, the first providing a review of what is known of crash rates and the effect of countermeasures on crash rates, the second describing a...
Successful launch of road safety interventions for vulnerable users – Bogotá, Colombia
On Tuesday 19 December, the Secretariat of Mobility in Bogotá, Colombia launched the implementation of iRAP’s countermeasures on 80th Street, as part of the BIGRS work. We announced and explained the road safety interventions for vulnerable users implemented on...
EVENT WRAP UP: Road Safety in Asia workshop 2017
Summary The Road Safety in Asia workshop 2017 was held 22-23 August at the Heritage Hotel, Manila in the Phillippines. It was hosted by iRAP and the Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP), for the 10th year in Asia. The World Health Organisation’s Save LIVES...
ADB training with Queensland’s road safety best
Transport specialists from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are in Brisbane this week for specialist road safety training, learning how to maximise infrastructure safety in projects financed by the Bank throughout the Asia Pacific. iRAP Strategic Projects Manager Greg...
2017 UK Risk Mapping & Road Crash Index Launched
The Road Safety Foundation, in partnership with Ageas UK, has today launched an innovative interactive Road Crash Index alongwith its latest UK risk mapping and performance tracking report on the EuroRAP network of Motorways and A roads. According to the report,...