Apr 7, 2021 | General, News
EuroRAP enters next phase at the start of 2nd UN Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030 The Stockholm Declaration and the 2nd UN Decade of Action for Road Safety call for a new level of partnership activity to halve road deaths and injuries by 2030. Building on...
Mar 31, 2021 | General, News
SLAIN Project (Saving Lives Assessing and Improving TEN-T Road Network Safety) A “How to” guide for network-wide road assessment is now available, with the objective to build on material used in activity 3 (Technical justification for network-wide road...
Mar 29, 2021 | General, News
The TAC iRAP Road Injury Dashboard is providing unique insights into the injury and crash types and total life-time claim costs associated with Victorian road trauma, to inform the real cost and actions needed to save lives in the Australian state. Road crashes are...
Mar 29, 2021 | General, News
Lois Anne Leal and Chaitree Sham Baradkar participated in the innovative iRAP Omdena 8 week Challenge earlier this year to find AI-based solutions to map crash risk and generate iRAP star rating attribute data. They were just 2 of 50 AI and machine learning engineers...
Mar 27, 2021 | General, News
We are happy to announce that the iRAP website is now available in multi-languages. The website can now be viewed in automatic translations for English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian and Vietnamese. To view the iRAP website in the appropriate language, go to...
Mar 25, 2021 | General, News
The 2021 iRAP Peter Kissinger Award recipients were announced today in a virtual celebration attended by Peter’s wife Willie and best friend Dave Anderson. In recognition of his great contribution to iRAP and global road safety, the Peter Kissinger annual Memorial...
Mar 24, 2021 | General, News
EuroRAP News: For the first time, a road engineer from Russia, representing GLONASS BDD, has appeared on the list of 156 iRAP accredited suppliers from around the world. The iRAP methodology, based on scientific research, evaluates and assigns Star Ratings for the...
Mar 19, 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 which is now live. Addressing the risk of death in road traffic is fundamental to achieve the Sustainable...
Mar 16, 2021 | General, News
INTERNATIONAL ROAD FEDERATION PRESS RELEASE: Geneva / Dar es Salaam, 16 March 2021 The Tanzania Minister for Works and Transport, H.E. Eng. Dr Leonard Madaraka Chamuriho, has officially launched the “Ten Step Plan for Safer Road Infrastructure” project in an on-line...
Mar 16, 2021 | General, News
PRESS RELEASE First Guide to Help Identify What Works and What Does Not Work in Road Safety Washington D.C. (March 15, 2021) – The World Bank’s Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF) launched today the Guide for Road Safety Interventions: Evidence of What Works and What...
Mar 11, 2021 | General, News
The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) partnership with iRAP’s award-winning Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) programme is delivering unprecedented resources and funding to mobility clubs for safer school journeys world-wide. Two major FIA initiatives...
Mar 8, 2021 | General, News
Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world. Today we are celebrating International Women’s Day 2021. The theme this year celebrates the tremendous efforts by women and girls around the world in shaping a more equal future and recovery...
Mar 7, 2021 | General, News
Cricket lovers will be thrilled to hear that iRAP and the Road Safety Foundation UK (RSF) are road safety partners of the 2021 Road Safety World Series to bring awareness to the importance of eliminating high-risk roads to save lives. The partnership sees the iRAP and...
Mar 4, 2021 | News
More than 40 case studies and a brochure have been released in the results package of EuroRAP Project SLAIN (Saving Lives Assessing and Improving TEN-T Road Network Safety) which has run over the last 2 years in the 5 European countries of Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece,...
Mar 4, 2021 | General, News
On 4 March, EuroRAP together with Project consortium partners, released the final results of Project SLAIN (Saving Lives Assessing and Improving TEN-T Road Network Safety) in 5 European countries including Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy and Spain The project has...
Mar 3, 2021 | General, News
iRAP has captured its first Decade of Action for Road Safety impact with an image-rich virtual story – “A World Free of High-Risk Roads: A Decade of Action to Save Lives”. Click on the link below to view our Decade of Action image-rich virtual story...
Mar 3, 2021 | General, News
iRAP in partnership with the World Bank, has recently delivered first online training to road safety engineers and infrastructure safety decision makers in Burkina Faso and Niger, Africa. The project is a first for capacity building in francophone speaking countries...
Mar 3, 2021 | News
Speaking at the final event of the major EC project, SLAIN, EuroRAP Chairman Ferry Smith has set out the Association’s path for supporting road authorities to save lives through safer road infrastructure in the second UN Decade of Action for road safety to 2030....
Mar 2, 2021 | General, News
Star Rating Essentials is now available to take at your own pace in French – Enrol here Get the essentials for STAR RATING roads and designs for safety through a 5 x 1 hour training modules plus assignment The United Nations (UN) have adopted targets that...
Mar 1, 2021 | General, News, ViDA
The new ViDA User Guide is specifically for the use of new ViDA reports and other functions now available in ViDA. It also contains updated information on training and accreditation. The guide has been recently updated in January 2021 (Version 2.1). These updates...
Feb 28, 2021 | General, News
In the past three years, we have been consulting with course participants and accredited suppliers on their needs and based on that, we plan to deliver in 2021: A new course on ViDA analyst. In this course, participants will learn how to access and make use of results...
Feb 28, 2021 | AiRAP, News
“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.” — Steve Maraboli Rutuja Kawade, an ML Engineer at Omdena | AI for Social Good reflects to medium.com on her experience...
Feb 28, 2021 | Certification, General, News
Photo caption: Ms Fitri Wiyanti – Director of Operation, Mr Subakti Syukur – President Director and Mr Bagus Cahya Arinta – Regional Jasamarga Metropolitan Tollroad Division Head, Jasa Marga In a virtual signing event this week, PT Jasa Marga (Persero) Tbk has been...
Feb 26, 2021 | General, News
The FIA have just announced that their FIA Road Safety Grants Programme will prioritise funding to school zone upgrades through the FIA School Assessment Programme. The FIA School Assessment Toolkit is an online repository with the relevant actions and documents to...
Feb 25, 2021 | General, News
Click here to read this edition The latest Star Rating for Schools newsletter is out now – read some great stories of how SR4S Lead Partners are engaging partners and leading safer infrastructures around the world. In this issue: Undertaking SR4S assessments in...