The Secretary of Mobility Juan Pablo Bocarejo has today launched the new safe school zone at Rodrigo Lara School in Bogota, built on the back of a Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) assessment and recommendation. In a project partnership between the...
EVENT WRAPUP: FIA Mobility Conference 2018
Summary The 26th FIA Mobility Conference took place in Montevideo, Uruguay from 23 to 27 July 2018, in conjunction with the 20th FIA Congress of Americas, and at the kind invitation of the Automovil Club del Uruguay (ACU). The mission of the FIA in terms...
iRAP accreditation training: A first in Brazil
Florianopolis, Brazil – Nineteen engineers from eight Brazilian companies are receiving iRAP accreditation training in Florianopolis over the next two weeks – the first training of this type to be offered in the country. Participants from Certare,...
Using the SR4S app to create a safer journey for school kids (Bogota, Colombia)
Children at the Rodrigo Lara School (Ciudad Bolivar) and the local community are now benefiting from new and safer infrastructure. July 6, 2018 - The Secretariat of Mobility (SoM) in Bogotá, Colombia started testing the SR4S App. By doing so, they decided...
Star Rating for Schools latest newsletter is now available
Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) is an easy to use, objective and evidence based tool for measuring, managing and communicating the risk children are exposed to on school journeys. The Lead Partners are leading the way with the SR4S pilot and good news...
Report from the EuroRAP General Assembly 2018 – Rotterdam
EuroRAP Chairman Ferry Smith opened proceedings at the EuroRAP General Assembly in Rotterdam (12-14 June), drawing attention to keynote speeches from European Commission and the European Car Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA). He spoke about road safety in...
iRAP is looking for a Programme Coordinator to lead our exciting Star Rating for Schools initiative globally and help save kids lives (applications close 24 July 2018)
UPDATE: APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED! iRAP is a charity dedicated to tackling the largest cause of death for young people worldwide: road crashes. Our vision is a world free of high risk roads. As Programme Coordinator, Star Rating for Schools you have the...
EVENT WRAPUP: World Transport Convention 2018
Summary Hosted by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) and organised by the China Highway & Transportation Society (CHTS), the World Transport Convention (WTC) 2018 was held at the China National Convention Centre, Beijing from 18 -...
EVENT WRAPUP – INTERNATIONAL CHILD ROAD SAFETY FORUM (FISEVI) 2018
The International Child Road Safety Forum (FISEVI) 2018 was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina last week. The event attracted 400 road safety stakeholders from governments, international agencies, law enforcement, civil and traffic engineers, health and...
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...
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,...
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 ministers and the...
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...
With the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – help us keep in touch…
iRAP takes pride in the ability to keep you up-to-date on RAP programmes, projects, events and activities helping to save lives and reduce serious injuries on global roads. This includes updates on activities such as ViDA, Star Ratings for Schools etc. The...
Seeking a Project Director, Project Officer and Road Safety Engineer!
EuroRAP are currently looking for a Project Director, Project Officer and Road Safety Engineer keen to save lives on safer roads in Europe and in particular on a 12 country road infrastructure safety project in the Danube region. Job descriptions are...
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...
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...
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...
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...
2018 AusRAP and RACQ crash risk and star rating assessment report: Bruce Highway – Cooroy to Curra Section B
Download Click the file icon above to download the file. 2018 AusRAP and RACQ crash risk and star rating assessment report: Bruce Highway - Cooroy to Curra Section B