January 2019: Recent meetings between Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) partners and city officials has highlighted the value of World Bank and iRAP activities. iRAP’s Managing Director – Strategic Projects Greg Smith recently attended...
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iRAP attendance at the TRB Annual Meeting 2019
Photo Credit: Natalie Draisin, FIA Foundation 2019 The Transportation Research Board (TRB) 98th Annual Meeting was held from the 13 – 17 January 2019 in Washington DC. The spotlight theme for the 2019 meet was: Transportation for Smart, Sustainable and...
KoRAP visit to Australia
On 16 January, a Korean delegation of eight representatives visited the Road to Zero Complex in Melbourne to learn about the iRAP and AusRAP programmes and how KoRAP activity may be shaped to save lives in their country. Presentations included: KoRAP:...
NEW TRAINING COURSE MARCH 2019 – Implementing iRAP surveys (Washington DC, USA)
The International Road Federation (IRF) Global Training Institute is hosting an 'Engineering Solutions to Implement iRAP Surveys' Training Course from 4 - 8 March 2019 (Washington DC,USA). Preventive risk mapping is an effective instrument to help road...
EVENT WRAP UP: Vision Zero and Innovation Workshop
Summary The Vision Zero and Innovation Workshop was held 28-29 November 2018 at the Enrique V. Iglesias Auditorium, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington DC. Hosted by iRAP, the IDB and the World Resources Institute Ross Center for...
Project RADAR update at the ‘Danube Region Transport Days 2018’ Conference (Slovenia)
Project RADAR – Risk Assessment on Danube Area Roads – was part of the 4th International Stakeholder Conference called ‘The Danube Region Transport Days 2018’, which was held on December 4 and 5, 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. During the 2-day conference, project RADAR...
Star Rating for Schools wins prestigious Prince Michael International Road Safety Award
Tuesday 11 December: LONDON — Star Rating for Schools, the first-ever evidence-based tool for measuring, managing and communicating the level of risk children are exposed to on school journeys, has won a prestigious Prince Michael...
Working towards safer roads in Africa – Ethiopia and Ghana
Friday 7 December 2018: AfricaRAP’s Lead Rachael Nganwa has been in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) and Accra (Ghana) this week engaging with local road agencies and discussing how the iRAP assessments can form part of their road network condition surveys. The...
World Health Organisation (WHO) releases the Global Status Report on Road Safety 2018
New report highlights road fatalities continue to increase worldwide Friday 7 December: The World Health Organisation (WHO) have today released a report on Global Road Safety to stimulate countries worldwide to improve road safety and serve as an advocacy...
EVENT WRAPUP: ASEAN Road Safety Conference 2018
The 2nd Conference of ASEAN Road Safety 2018 (CARS 2018) was held this week in Malaysia. The conference was held on the 4-6 December 2018 in Selangor, Malaysia, with the objective to bring together key players in road safety within the Southeast Asia...