May 13, 2021 | General, News
Welcome to iRAP’s May 2021 Newsletter – Partnerships for 2030 Impact iRAP is ready for the 2nd Decade of Action for Road Safety At its most recent meeting the iRAP Board of Trustees signed off on the charity’s life-saving strategy for the decade and the fine...
May 11, 2021 | General, News, ViDA
We have updated the ViDA user guide and the Star Rating for Designs user guide, and have made them available in Spanish as well as English. ViDA User Guide – This guide introduces ViDA, iRAP’s online analysis and reporting tool, and provides instructions for...
May 7, 2021 | General, News
The Brazilian Minister for Infrastructure has recently announced the first incorporation of iRAP as a road safety metric on a federal road, with consortium EcoRodovias/GLP winner of the R $ 14 billion contract on the BR-153 over 35 years. For the 850.7 km concession...
May 7, 2021 | General, News
iRAP calls on its partners and the community worldwide to support the 6th United Nations Global Road Safety Week (UNGRSW) #StreetsForLife #Love30 campaign from the 17 – 23 May 2021. Low speed streets save lives. 30km/h speeds protect road users and reduce loss...
May 6, 2021 | General, News
The following opinion piece was published in Autonomy Paris Urban Mobility Weekly on May 6 2021 Every day, road crashes kill over 3,600 people across the world. 56 people are left quadriplegic, 161 are rendered amputees, 932 suffer severe acquired brain injuries and...
May 6, 2021 | General, News
NTT Ltd. has profiled iRAP Connect, iRAP’s Partner Management System, in their suite of ‘Technology for Good’ case studies alongside global innovations to unlock the mysteries of the universe, deliver rapid COVID response and track illegal poaching in Africa… to...
May 5, 2021 | General, News
Invitation to attend the webinar series: World Bank and iRAP helping save lives in Africa – BIGRS 2020-25 DATES: 06, 09, 13 & 16 July 2021TIME: 3.00PM – 4.30PM (UTC+3) Addis Ababa, EthiopiaFree of charge Please note this webinar will be delivered in...
May 5, 2021 | General, News
Halving road deaths and injuries by 2030 will require a team effort. We need to scale up the proven interventions and partnerships worldwide and work together to achieve the UN Global Road Safety Performance Targets and save more than 450,000 lives a year. At its...
May 5, 2021 | General, News, ThaiRAP Star Ratings, ViDA
Thanks to the hard work from the ThaiRAP team, we have now been able to add Thai language on ViDA and Demonstrator to support road risk analysis and assessment for users in Thailand. . ViDA and Demonstrator are platforms for road safety analysis used to assess risk...
May 1, 2021 | CycleRAP, General, News
With a surge of cycling due to COVID impacts, the rise of food delivery apps, dockless share bikes and e-bikes, a second generation CycleRAP model is now under development guided by experts from 20 global organisations. The concept of CycleRAP originated in 2015 by...
Apr 30, 2021 | General, News
The official page for the Ten Step Plan Tanzania project is available on the global Transport Knowledge Partnership website Tanzania has been selected for implementation of the Ten Step Plan for Safer Road Infrastructure Pilot Project funded by the United Nations...
Apr 30, 2021 | General, News, Star rating for designs
A Star Rating for Designs NH19 Highway Project in Vietnam has seen 37 local engineers trained and first development of iRAP training materials in Vietnamese to build national capacity. National Highway 19 (NH19) in Vietnam is a priority corridor that has received...
Apr 29, 2021 | General, News
Workshops across India have drawn 100 engineers and decision-makers to discuss assessment results of national highways assessed in Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. IndiaRAP’s first National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) project Star Rating 2,400 km of national...
Apr 29, 2021 | General, News
iRAP has proudly supported the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG)’s Safety Day campaign on 28 April to support the application of the UN targets for 3-star or better roads for all road users and enhance infrastructure investment for development impact in...
Apr 27, 2021 | General, News
We are delighted to announce that iRAP will be participating at Autonomy Digital 2.0, The world’s largest platform for sustainable mobility solutions held online over the 19 – 20 May 2021. On Thursday 20 May, iRAP’s Star Rating for Schools Global Programme...
Apr 27, 2021 | General, News
The Australasian College of Road Safety (ACRS) has recently announced Scholarships for road safety researchers and practitioners from LMIC are available to present and/or participate in ARSC2021 28-30 September 2021. These scholarships are funded by the Department of...
Apr 23, 2021 | General, News
The Ten Step Plan for Safer Road Infrastructure in Tanzania and experiences of road assessment programmes around the world will be showcased at the 2nd Smart Transport Infrastructures Summit (STIS2021) in Dar Es Salaam from 27-29 April. Under the theme “Adopting...
Apr 23, 2021 | General, News
iRAP’s second Coffee and Connect session brought together 80 RAP national programme leads from 38 countries to hear and learn from the 20 year success of the EuroRAP UK programme. The EuroRAP UK Programme, led by the Road Safety Foundation (RSF), is a global leader...
Apr 22, 2021 | General, News
iRAP has a new and improved Learning Management System to host our online courses, called Moodle. iRAP now has 21 online courses available to be taken at your own pace. In the past two years, these courses were delivered through a Learning Management System called...
Apr 21, 2021 | General, News
Federal Road Safety Corps Marshal Dr Boboye Oyeyemi inaugurated a Stakeholder Committee in February for the proposed establishment of a National Road Assessment Programme for Nigeria (nRAP), to enhance safer road infrastructure and compliment existing efforts to...
Apr 21, 2021 | AiRAP, News
iRAP congratulates Anditi who has been awarded grant funding for their AiRAP project as part of an AUD$8.4 million Entrepreneurs’ Programme for Australian Innovators to bring revolutionary products to market. Anditi is a key partner in iRAP’s AiRAP...
Apr 21, 2021 | General
In June 2020, iRAP’s CEO Rob McInerney was recently asked to share a personal perspective on COVID19 and road safety for the Australasian College of Road Safety (ACRS) weekly newsletter Read the full article below. ACRS FELLOW ROB MCINERNEY AUTHORS COVID-19...
Apr 14, 2021 | General, News
Position available: Data Analyst Six-month part-time contract with possibility of extension (3 person months FTE equivalent)In 2021, the International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) has a number of global innovation projects in the area of road safety. iRAP is...
Apr 8, 2021 | General, News
March 2021: ARRB’s National Leader – Transport Safety, Mr David McTiernan presented to NSW local government engineers at the IPWEA NSW State Conference how AusRAP can help them deliver safer road infrastructure. The Star Rating of Australia’s...
Apr 8, 2021 | General, News
In August 2020, the UN General Assembly adopted resolution 74/299 “Improving global road safety”, proclaiming the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030, with the ambitious target of preventing at least 50% of road traffic deaths and injuries by 2030....