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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...
Targets 3 & 4: What They Mean for Safer Roads Globally

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

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 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

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

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

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...
EVENT WRAP UP: Road Safety in Asia workshop 2017

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

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

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,...
Major funding to improve Chilean road network safety

Major funding to improve Chilean road network safety

US$14 million in funding for the Chilean regions of O’Higgins, Maule and Bio Bio was announced in recent days to implement iRAP recommendations and improve road network safety. The funding announcement was made by the Chilean Road Authority via the Road Safety...
5-Star School Journey for Lusaka Students

5-Star School Journey for Lusaka Students

For students of Justin Kabwe Primary School in Lusaka, Zambia, their journey to school has just gotten a whole lot safer, with access roads raised from 1 and 2-star dangerous to 5-star safety excellence. Thanks to an Amend project, supported by FedEx and the FIA...

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