Mar 10, 2022 | Governance, News
After 8 years voluntary service as a charity Trustee, iRAP welcomes Miquel Nadal as the new Chairman of the Board. Miquel brings to the position extensive road safety and mobility experience at the global level as current Secretary of the FIA High Level Panel for Road...
Mar 8, 2022 | News
iRAP stands with the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety and road safety community in calling for peace and for Russia to step aside from the UN High-level Meeting on Road Safety to occur from 30 June to 1 July in New York. The crucial work of eradicating road...
Mar 7, 2022 | News
Achieving safer roads and road use is possible. A realignment of incentives across safety outcomes and commercial interests is needed to mobilise and target the estimated $260 billion investment gap needed to halve road deaths and injuries by 2030. Innovative private...
Mar 7, 2022 | General, News
On 30 June and 1 July, leaders from across the globe will gather at the United Nations in New York for the first ever High-level Meeting on Road Safety. iRAP is calling on every country to actively participate, share success and commit to implement the Global Plan for...
Mar 4, 2022 | AiRAP, General, News
iRAP was proud to present this week, alongside UN Special Envoy for Road Safety Jean Todt, global AI innovators and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) at the Fourth Global Standards Symposium (GSS) calling for technical standards to support progress...
Mar 3, 2022 | 3 star, Certification, General, News
Australian urban toll road operator Transurban has been awarded iRAP Certification for achieving a 4-star safety rating on its network by vehicle kilometres travelled. iRAP congratulates Transurban on its safety leadership and this impressive result which exceeds the...
Mar 3, 2022 | Certification, General, News
iRAP has launched a Star Rating Certification Programme to help road owners celebrate the life-saving impact of their investments in safer roads. Star Rating Certification verifies achievement of 3-star or better safety ratings on road networks for vehicle occupants,...
Mar 2, 2022 | CycleRAP, General, News
Join us on 17 March at Autonomy Paris, the world’s largest mobility event, for our Roundtable exploring How we can ensure cycling and micromobility are embedded as preferred safe modes of urban transport. Over 8,000 participants and 200 exhibitors are expected at...
Mar 1, 2022 | General, News
Today, iRAP accredited supplier Pavesys Engenharia is transporting their survey vehicle to the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, Brazil to perform an iRAP assessment. Fernando de Noronha is located 350 kms off Brazil’s northeast coast and is a protected...
Feb 28, 2022 | News
iRAP recognizes the extraordinary voluntary service of outgoing Board Chairman Gary Liddle including 9 years as a charity Trustee, and 5 years leading the iRAP Board. Gary joined the Board in 2013 bringing with him a wealth of road agency experience as Chief Executive...
Feb 24, 2022 | AiRAP, News
Thanks to the Spanish Road Association (Asociación Española de la Carretera) for its 9-page feature on iRAP “Creating a world where every journey is safe. A Tragedy Every Minute” in the latest issue 234 of Revista Carreteras Magazine. The magazine reaches...
Feb 18, 2022 | General, Star rating for designs
Global engineering firm Arup has been using Star Rating for Designs (SR4D) to improve the safety of their road designs and their corporate strategy for Outcome Led Design to save lives. Arup has 16,000 designers and staff working across 35 countries and was looking to...
Feb 16, 2022 | News
Left to right: Luiz Guilherme de Mello (Director, DNIT), General Santos Filho (Director General, DNIT), Tarcísio de Freitas (Minister of Infrastructure, Brazil) and Julio Urzua (Global Projects Director, iRAP) Brazil’s Minister of Infrastructure Tarcísio de...
Feb 14, 2022 | AiRAP, News
Reproduced from IDB’s Moviliblog According to the World Health Organization (WHO), traffic crashes are responsible for 1.35 million deaths worldwide. Traffic fatalities are an avoidable public health crisis that particularly impacts low- and middle-income...
Feb 10, 2022 | General, News
Innovative Public-Private Partnership (PPP) investment in 3-star of better roads in Brazil was shared yesterday by the Global Infrastructure Hub, International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Agência Reguladora de Serviços Públicos Delegados de Transporte do Estado de...
Feb 8, 2022 | News, Star rating for designs
The World Bank Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF) and International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) have commenced an innovative project to evaluate countries’ progress in achieving UN Target 3: that by 2030, all new roads achieve technical standards for all road...
Feb 7, 2022 | News
Implementation of the iRAP Methodology by the National Department of Transport Infrastructure (DNIT) has been certified with the [email protected] seal, from the Brazilian Ministry of Infrastructure. [email protected] consists of the Policy for the Modernization of the Federal Highway...
Feb 4, 2022 | CycleRAP, General, News
150 participants attended an iRAP Special Session today on Safer Infrastructure as part of the Vision Zero Academy Course, Brazil. The 2 week digital Course for the Brazilian National Secretariat of Transport launched on 1 February and includes the participation of...
Feb 4, 2022 | News
IndiaRAP proudly launched an innovative new Learning Centre yesterday to support engineers, researchers and students undertaking academic road safety studies using the iRAP Methodology. Almost 60 people joined the Launch highlighting significant interest in the...
Jan 31, 2022 | ANRAM, News
South Australia’s recently released Road Safety Strategy to 2031 has set a key performance indicator to improve the Star Rating of the state road network, with a particular focus on high speed, high volume roads. The Strategy sets out the ambitious 10-year...
Jan 31, 2022 | News
ARTESP, on the authority of The Government of São Paulo, has opened bidding for the resumption of works on the North Rodoanel 31-year concession including iRAP as the road safety metric. A R$3 billion (USD$550 million) investment is planned for the expansion,...
Jan 25, 2022 | News
iRAP Accredited Supplier FRED Engineering has commenced a new iRAP project supported by the World Bank Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF) and funded under the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS). to assess 450km of roads in Maharashtra,...
Jan 25, 2022 | ANRAM, General, News
The Australian Government has announced a Remote Roads Upgrade Pilot Programme which will see AUD$150 million targeted to road improvements for regional communities. Australian regional drivers are five times more likely to die on the road than their metropolitan...
Jan 25, 2022 | General, News
Article by Lucia Pennisi (ACI) in collaboration with the Transport Planning, Update and Network Classification Service of ANAS Spa Coordinated by EuroRAP with the participation of ANAS Spa, the SLAIN project allowed the analysis of over 20,000km of roads of the TENT...
Jan 25, 2022 | General, News
The World Bank Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF) and ITF have published new Guidelines for Conducting Road Safety Data Reviews promoting the iRAP Methodology as a useful guide for assessing and monitoring road section risk. In many countries around the world,...