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 of...
How Can We Deliver 5-star Roads for Vulnerable Road Users? (Featured in Urban Mobility Weekly)
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...
iRAP Connect: ‘technology for good’
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...
New webinar series: World Bank and iRAP helping save lives in Africa
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 English...
Partnerships for 2030 Impact – iRAP is ready for the 2nd Decade of Action for Road Safety
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...
ViDA and Star Rating Demonstrator now available in Thai
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...
Innovation project in focus: CycleRAP
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...
gTKP Resource: Official webpage for Ten Step Project Tanzania
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...
Star Rating for Designs project builds capacity in Vietnam
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...
IndiaRAP News: NHAI Workshops across India to review results and improve NH safety in 3 States
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...
iRAP supports PIDG Safety Day campaign for safe work and infrastructure investment in poorest countries
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...
iRAP and YOURS proudly co-hosting a ‘Young Female Leadership on Sustainable Mobility’ Industry talk – Autonomy Digital 2.0!
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 Coordinator...
Scholarships offered to LMIC candidates to participate in Australasian Road Safety Conference 2021
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...
Ten Step Plan for Tanzania showcased at Smart Transport Infrastructures Summit
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...
Coffee and Connect showcases EuroRAP UK success
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...
We have moved…. to a new e-learning platform
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...
FRSC inaugurates committee to establish NigeriaRAP
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...
Looking back on 2020 – iRAP CEO Blog ‘Imagine a response to road safety like COVID-19’
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...
Europe News: RADAR Project ‘Architect’ of Road Safety Future
The Slovenia-based European Institute of Road Assessment (EIRA) partnered with the European Road Assessment Programme (EuroRAP) in June 2018 for a 2,15 million euros project to improve road infrastructure safety across 12 countries in the Danube region – Risk...
Position available – Data Analyst (6 month part-time contract with possibility of extension)
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...