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Attention US Partners: $1.25 Billion Grant Opportunity to Improve Road Safety in Your Community
Information sourced from US DoT press release – click here to read The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is offering a fantastic opportunity to improve road safety in your community! Their Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) grant program provides funding for...
First meetings kick off in Kyrgystan as iRAP, EASST and IRF join forces with UNESCAP to update road design standards in Central Asia
First meetings are underway in Kyrgystan this week as part of a transformative project to improve road design standards across the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) countries - a new United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the...
Arup shares value of iRAP Certification
Civil Engineer Dominic Waterhouse has shared Arup's experience obtaining iRAP Certification for the proposed design of the Tonkin Highway Extension project in Western Australia, and the value it brought to project partners. Arup, on behalf of Main Roads Western...
AusRAP News: Star Ratings for Australian Arterial Roads by 2025
In a bid to enhance road safety nationally, Australia's states and territories will commence publishing updated AusRAP star ratings in 2024, with a commitment to publish star ratings for all major arterial roads by 2025. The recent release of a new AusRAP Strategy and...
Shaanxi road improvements cut deaths by a third, injuries halved
An Asian Development Bank (ADB) report reveals that a major road safety project in Shaanxi, China, reduced deaths by 33% and injuries by 53% on 850km of roads. This translates to 32 lives and 868 injuries saved annually. This impressive outcome coincided with a 22%...
Tanzania’s BRT transformation celebrated
Tanzania’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridors in Dar es Salaam are slashing travel times and improving safety for commuters, thanks to construction by the Tanzanian Government with the World Bank, development partners and investors. Phase 1 opened in 2016 with 29 buses...
Road design standards under spotlight in CAREC countries
Improved road design standards for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) countries, and in particular the pilot countries of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, is an urgent goal of a new United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the...
Albania cuts road deaths by 23% with innovative road maintenance programme
A World Bank report reveals that Albania's Results-based Road Maintenance and Safety Project achieved a 23% reduction in annual road fatalities on 1,335km of the nation’s busiest primary and secondary roads, saving 68 lives per year. This impressive outcome was...
iRAP joins forces to launch Brazil’s Road Safety Pact
Yesterday, iRAP joined forces with eleven public and private entities in launching Brazil's Road Safety Pact, a campaign to promote road safety and reduce crashes on the Brazilian road network. The campaign is one of ten work fronts formalized by the Technical...