The Road Safety Foundation in the United Kingdom have just released the Crash Risk Mapping Results 2024 – Britain’s motorways and ‘A’ roads This year’s report tracks the safety performance of motorways and ‘A’ roads in Great Britain, These roads make up less than 14...
Leveraging iRAP to Enhance Road Safety around Schools and Mosques in Riyadh: A Conference Spotlight
CCG and Riyadh Municipality presented their research paper at the IRF Conference (Images credit: CCG) The article has been prepared by CCG. The Consolidated Consultants Group (CCG), in collaboration with the Riyadh Municipality, participated in the IRF Road Safety...
IVORY Project update: iRAP welcomes PHD students Júlia Alves Porto and Mohammad Shahid
Pictured above (L-R): Mohammad Shahid (PhD student); Monica Olyslagers (iRAP's Global Innovation Manager and Cities Specialist); James Bradford (iRAP's Global Technical Director); and Júlia Alves Porto (PhD Student) We are delighted to welcome PhD students Júlia Alves...
ViDA Update – Pilot Testing New Screening Tools
To help accelerate safety assessments across networks and corridors, iRAP has developed two new tools that leverage the iRAP Star Rating methodology. The Network screening tool is designed to help road network managers segment their road network to the point where...
Africa Road Safety Seminar 2024: A Resounding Success
The Africa Road Safety Seminar 2024, held on October 8-9 in Nairobi, Kenya, was a resounding success, bringing together over 200 attendees from across the African continent and featuring more than 40 local and international experts. The event was a platform for rich...
#RAPKnowledge Live Session 11: Star Rating for Designs – A key to safer roads – Recording available
Participants from 54 countries tuned in last week for the 11th #RAPKnowledgeLive session – A key to safer roads. In this session, participants learned how to use the Star Rating for Designs (SR4D) tool to assess and improve road safety by evaluating road designs and...
New Enhanced Tool for Safer Road Design Unveiled
Innovative enhancements to iRAP’s Star Rating for Designs (SR4D) web app, allowing the safety of road designs to measured before the commencement of civil works, will be unveiled today at the IRF World Congress in Istanbul. The safety of nearly 58,000 kilometres of...
#RAPKnowledge Live Session 11: Star Rating for Designs – A key to safer roads
Join us for our #RAPKnowledge Live Session 11: Star Rating for Designs - A key to safer roads. In this session, you can learn how to use the Star Rating for Designs (SR4D) tool to assess and improve road safety by evaluating road designs and identifying high-risk...
Star Rating for Schools July 2024 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: SR4S latest updates and new features! Empowering youth for safer...
Empowering Youth for Safer Roads: The Evolution of the Youth Engagement App
Image Caption: Students reported areas where they feel unsafe on YEA and confidently presented this information to the stakeholders including FIA Foundation’s Executive Director Saul BillingsleyImage Credit: AIP Foundation Road traffic injuries are now the leading...
AI&ME Public-Facing Report Released: Empowering Youth for Safer Roads Initiative
Image credit: AIP Foundation Original article – AIP Foundation AIP Foundation, in collaboration with Fondation Botnar, iRAP, and the FIA Foundation, proudly announces the launch of the public-facing report on the AI&Me: Empowering Youth for Safer Roads program....
Introducing a 2-part online live course: Crash Risk Mapping (July 2024)
iRAP offers a comprehensive two-part online course (2 x 1 hour live sessions) on Crash Risk Mapping, equipping you with the skills and knowledge to identify and address high-risk areas on your roads. Crash Risk Mapping: Crash Risk Maps use detailed crash data to...
Latest ViDA updates – Drag & Drop Uploads and Enhanced My DATA page capabilities!
Exciting New Feature: Drag & Drop Uploads We are thrilled to announce the implementation of the Drag & Drop feature on the upload page in ViDA. This new functionality allows for quicker and more user-friendly uploads, streamlining your experience by making it...
AI&Me Scalability Analysis Report – empowering youth at the heart of mobility
Original content from the AIP Foundation AIP Foundation’s innovative Big Data and AI road safety program, AI&Me: Empowering Youth for Safer Roads, has been positively engaging youth to raise their voices for safe mobility across Vietnam. Earlier this year,...
ViDA New Feature: Empower data-driven decisions with the all-new, improved Quality Assurance (QA) monitoring in ViDA!
This powerful update streamlines your workflow and boosts the reliability of your datasets: QA at Your Fingertips: Record QA completion directly within the dataset edit page (stages 2-6). Detailed Documentation: Record who conducted the QA and the processes they used...
ViDA New Feature: Decimal Star Ratings now in iRAP Demonstrator
Get a clearer picture of road safety with the all-new Decimal Star Ratings in the iRAP Demonstrator. This update provides you with: Finer-grained safety scores: Go beyond the traditional star rating system. Decimals give you a more precise understanding of the safety...
How many lives and serious injuries saved?: Join our webinar to hear JHU research unveiled
A peer-reviewed study led by world-leading researchers at Johns Hopkins University and published by a respected scientific journal has estimated the number of lives and serious injuries saved on roads made safer by iRAP partners worldwide. The study is the first...
Shedding Light on Local Journeys: Using Mobility Snapshots to Rate Your Local Commute, with a Focus on Safer Intersections and Pedestrian Mobility
The daily commute. It's a familiar routine, a journey most of us take without a second thought. But what if we told you that for many around the world, that seemingly ordinary trip can be fraught with danger, especially at high-risk intersections? This is the reality...
Global experts inform ongoing development of iRAP tools
iRAP's Global Technical Committee (GTC) met last week as part of their important function to govern the iRAP model development and technical integrity of iRAP protocols worldwide. Key topics of discussion were the development of a shunt / rear end crash type for the...
Missed the #RAPKnowledgeLive session on the Star Rating for Designs web app updates? Recording is now available!
On Wednesday 28 June 2023, over 50 delegates across 25 countries attended our third monthly #RAPKnowledgeLive session highlighting the exciting updates to the Star Rating for Designs web app. In this session, our guest presenter Marko Sevrovic, Senior Road Safety...