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EVENT WRAPUP: ADB Transport Forum 2018

EVENT WRAPUP: ADB Transport Forum 2018

Summary The ADB Transport Forum 2018 was held from 12 – 14 September 2018 in Manila, Philippines. It focused on the issue of “Financing the Future of Transport in Asia and the Pacific.” By ADB estimates, the Asian transport sector will require over...
New UN design standards for Asia Pacific region

New UN design standards for Asia Pacific region

The UN in Asia Pacific (UNESCAP) has recently adopted a new safety standard for the Asian Highway network (which spans 140,000km across 32 countries including all of Asia, Central Asia and Russia). The document adopts the Safe System approach, outlining ‘Member...
Alliance members pilot SR4S app

Alliance members pilot SR4S app

The Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety is one of iRAP’s Lead Partners in the pilot phase of development and rollout of the Star Rating for Schools program. In Cambodia, Cameroon, India, Kenya, Malaysia, and Nigeria, Alliance members have been testing the Star...
Safer school zone launched at Rodrigo Lara School, Bogota

Safer school zone launched at Rodrigo Lara School, Bogota

The Secretary of Mobility Juan Pablo Bocarejo has today launched the new safe school zone at Rodrigo Lara School in Bogota, built on the back of a Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) assessment and recommendation. In a project partnership between the Secretariat of...
EVENT WRAPUP: FIA Mobility Conference 2018

EVENT WRAPUP: FIA Mobility Conference 2018

Summary The 26th FIA Mobility Conference took place in Montevideo, Uruguay from 23 to 27 July 2018, in conjunction with the 20th FIA Congress of Americas, and at the kind invitation of the Automovil Club del Uruguay (ACU). The mission of the FIA in terms of Mobility...
iRAP accreditation training: A first in Brazil

iRAP accreditation training: A first in Brazil

Florianopolis, Brazil – Nineteen engineers from eight Brazilian companies are receiving iRAP accreditation training in Florianopolis over the next two weeks – the first training of this type to be offered in the country. Participants from Certare, Dynatest, Comtacti,...
Star Rating for Schools latest newsletter is now available

Star Rating for Schools latest newsletter is now available

Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) is an easy to use, objective and evidence based tool for measuring, managing and communicating the risk children are exposed to on school journeys. The Lead Partners are leading the way with the SR4S pilot and good news stories are...
EVENT WRAPUP: World Transport Convention 2018

EVENT WRAPUP: World Transport Convention 2018

Summary Hosted by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) and organised by the China Highway & Transportation Society (CHTS), the World Transport Convention (WTC) 2018 was held at the China National Convention Centre, Beijing from 18 – 21...
ChinaRAP: Zhengtong road redevelopment project

ChinaRAP: Zhengtong road redevelopment project

  Ahead of the World Transport Convention in Beijing in June 2018, a video has been released to provide an update on the Zhengtong Road redevelopment project.   Through the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety, the World Bank and iRAP...
European Institute of Road Assessment wins RADAR bid

European Institute of Road Assessment wins RADAR bid

The Slovenia-based European Institute of Road Assessment (EIRA) has signed the contract for its work on a €2.15 million project over 3-years to improve road infrastructure safety across 12 countries in the Danube region. The Danube Transnational Programme approved for...
EVENT WRAPUP: ROAD SAFETY ON FIVE CONTINENTS (RS5C)

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

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

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

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,...
SR4S Lead Partners gather at UN meetings in New York

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...

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