iRAP data has informed research conducted by the Australian Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Victoria University into the development of an investment case to reduce road traffic injuries among adolescents. Road traffic injuries are one of the leading causes...
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Congratulations to all our successful candidates for iRAP’s Women in Engineering training grants this year!
Road Safety needs us all! iRAP started the Women in Engineering Grants first in 2021 and continues the offer again in 2022 to 30 successful applicants. The grant programme aims to benefit women with a background in engineering to undertake the Star Rating...
New Guide: Integrating Safety into Road Design
The World Bank’s new Guide to Integrating Safety into Road Design recognises the iRAP Star Rating, the Star Rating for Designs Tool and Road Assessment Programmes as valuable measures for ensuring safety is systematically embedded in road designs to save lives. Whilst...
Star Rating for Schools July 2022 Newsletter
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: How to get started UN High-level Meeting for Road Safety brings...
Malawi commits to safer roads by 2030
The Minister for Transport and Public Works, important road safety officials and NGO Road Safety Alert Foundation (RSAF) unite in their commitment to reduce road crash fatalities and injuries in Malawi. Included in picture: Kingston Sandula, Director of Road Traffic...
EuroRAP projects on show at ConnectingEurope Days
Four transformative and transnational EuroRAP projects were on show last week at the ConnectingEurope Days held in Lyon, France from 28-30 June. ConnectingEurope Days – formerly known as TEN-T Days – is Europe’s mobility flagship event, bringing together politicians,...
New resources for 5-star RAPs
An online package of new Resources for 5-star RAPs, funded by FedEx, has launched today to support road assessment programmes around the world eliminate high-risk roads and save lives. The launch comes at an opportune time, on the back of the UN High-level Meeting of...
Supporting safe highway geometric design at ISHGD2022
We were pleased to be a part of the 6th International Symposium on Highway Geometric Design (ISHGD2022), featuring the 6th Urban Street Symposium in Amsterdam last week. The Symposium was held from 26-29 June and, held every 5 years, aims to encourage the continuous...
Event Summary: UN High-level Meeting for Road Safety brings world leaders together for a Decade of Action and Delivery
Recognising the unacceptable scale of road trauma globally, World Leaders gathered in New York last week to commit to an increase in investment and action to ensure the SDG goal to halve road deaths and injuries by 2030 is met. Ensuring the Global Plan for the Decade...
Cities4Children meets and launches publication at World Urban Forum 11
Image credit: Cities 4 Children Alliance iRAP joined the Cities 4 Children Alliance members in Katowice, Poland to discuss the next phase of the Alliance. The alliance is an interdisciplinary network of 27 organisations working together to ensure that child rights are...