In a major announcement that unites the world of sport with global advocacy for child safety, we're excited to join the UEFA Foundation for Children, Adidas Foundation and the FIA Foundation to expand the “Legacy for the Future” initiative - a...
Original article and photos published by AIP Foundation VINH LONG Province, Vietnam – 10 February 2026 Despite being frequent road and public space users, Vietnamese urban youth are often excluded from the city design and traffic safety decisions that impact them...
The workshop, hosted by AIP Foundation, gathered 59 representatives from provincial and local government agencies including the Department of Education and Training, Union of Friendship Organizations, Department of Construction, iRAP, and 18 secondary schools....
2025 marked a milestone year for the Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) programme, celebrating five years of global impact and collaboration. The anniversary was recognised in early 2025 alongside partners from around the world at the 4th Global Ministerial Conference in...
This month’s SR4S newsletter covers key achievements, success stories from partners creating safer roads for children, capacity building and stakeholder initiatives, updates on the Youth Engagement App (YEA) and essential resources – all made possible by our dedicated...
Original press release by AIP Foundation and WHO Vietnam Project 2000 road safety partnership was officially launched in Hanoi today, by the World Health Organization (WHO) Vietnam and the Asia Injury Prevention (AIP) Foundation, along with 15 other partners, from...
In recognition of International Youth Day this month, we celebrate the many ways iRAP is partnering with youth and for youth to ensure their voice is included and needs prioritised in road safety projects and partnerships worldwide. Did you know?: Half of the people...
Shanna Lucchesi - Project Coordinator, iRAP speaking at the Big Data Results workshop. DA NANG, Vietnam – August 7, 2025 - Original article published by AIP Foundation In recent years, the Government of Vietnam has demonstrated strong leadership in prioritizing road...
In a groundbreaking development, the much-anticipated new version of the Youth Engagement App (YEA) has launched during the 8th UN Global Road Safety Week, supporting the theme “Streets for Life: #MakeWalkingSafe and #MakeCyclingSafe”. Funded by Google.org, this...
Article originally published by AIP Foundation April 23, 2025 PLEIKU CITY, Vietnam – April 23, 2025 As part of the recently launched Empowering Youth for Livable Cities program, two co-creation workshops were hosted by the International Road Assessment Programme...
UN Global Road Safety Week, observed from 12-18 May 2025, focuses on the theme "Streets for Life: #MakeWalkingSafe and #MakeCyclingSafe". iRAP is proud to join this global effort to raise awareness and promote advocacy and action for safer road infrastructure for...
✨ Five years of Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) and so much progress to share! This month’s SR4S newsletter covers key achievements, success stories from partners like Prudence Foundation and Fundación Aleatica, capacity building initiatives, and essential resources –...
17 February, 2025 [MARRAKECH]: The five-year success of the global Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) Program helping to make school journeys safer and healthier for vulnerable youth in 76 countries has been celebrated today in Marrakech. SR4S’s 5-year impact was...
The NWSI team is prepared to begin data collection, navigating school zones on motorcycles to capture 360-degree imagery. (Image credit: AIP Foundation, Anditi) Training has commenced in Hanoi as part of the $2 million Google.org AI&Me Project leveraging AI to...
As 2024 draws to a close, we extend our heartfelt gratitude to our donors, global programme partners, and supporters who make the Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) programme another year of success. Together, we’ve created inspiring stories of safer school journeys...
H.R.H.Prince Michael of Kent (middle), presented the award to Victoria Jönsson-Brown (left), from AIP Foundation and Monica Olyslagers (right), Global Innovation Manager & Cities Specialist from the International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP). The AIP...
Students using the AI&Me Youth Engagement App to report high-risk roads in their community in Ho Chi Minh City (Image credit: AIP Foundation) Original article from AIP Foundation HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam – November 18, 2024 Building on the success of the AIP...
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...
In October 2024, iRAP’s Project Coordinator Shanna Lucchesi attended the Walk 21 Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. The Walk21 Foundation annual conference is where experts, advocates, and policymakers discuss the benefits of walking. Walking is essential to urban...
iRAP participated in discussions with CHI partners at the pre-conference session. Images credit: FIA Foundation and iRAP Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death for children and young adults aged 5–29. High-risk roads significantly contribute to the...
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The International Road Federation has developed a series of Road Safety Seminars (Safer Roads by Design™) to provide road authorities with best practices and latest technologies that can be implemented to meet a country’s commitment to the Decade of Action.
Safer Roads by Design™ is an all-inclusive approach to road safety and includes seminars on the fundamentals of Road Safety, Roadside Safety, Work Zone Safety, Intersection/Roundabout Safety and Vulnerable User Safer.
The University of Birmingham (UK) iRAP course in Road Safety introduces people to the iRAP technology for evaluating the safety impact of road infrastructure.
By the end of the course, the participants are expected to have acquired an understanding of the following key items:
The course includes practical exercises, discussions and exposure to the iRAP software. The course is delivered in the state-of-the-art teaching and learning facilities of the University of Birmingham.
RAPcapacity online courses help people learn how to undertake iRAP-specification road assessments.
The Star Rating of a Road Design can be completed as a stand-alone activity. The process is being used by road agencies, development banks and design consultants to objecitvely specify and measure the safety of a road design for all road users.
The process offers an opportunity for road owners to set a performance based star rating target for all road users (e.g. the new road must be minimum 4-star standard for pedestrians and cyclists and minimum 3-star standard for motorcyclists and vehicle occupants). It has been successfully used in conjunction with existing mechanisms such as Road Safety Audits and compliance with road design standards.
The impact on risk of various design iterations can also be explored to help harness the potential of designers to find creative solutions to challenging safety problems.
The risk reduction design improvements proposed in a Safer Road Investment Plan can be adjusted by local experts to improve the Star Ratings for different user groups. iRAP recommends that all new roads should be built to a 3-star or better rating and all existing roads upgraded to that level.
The 3-star or better minimum can be achieved through a combination of infrastructure improvements and speed management initiatives to ensure a minimum level of safety for all road users at the location. On high volume roads, 4 and 5-star targets are often justified for specific road user groups (e.g. 5-star for pedestrians in CBD areas; 4-star or better motorways for vehicle occupants).
A Safer Road Investment Plan is produced that makes the business case for investing in road infrastructure safety. The plans list a range of life-saving measures that could be used to improve a road’s Star Rating and reduce fatalities and serious injuries.
Processed road inspection data is used to develop Star Rating maps. The five-colour maps provide a simple and objective measure of the level of safety which is built-in to the road. Five-star roads are the safest while one-star roads are the least safe.
The internationally recognised colour coding system ensures a better understanding and awareness of why some roads are safer than others.
The raw data is processed in ViDA to create data reports about a road’s design and the level of risk for each road user group. ViDA is capable of performing risk and economic calculations for millions of kilometres of road.
All data is securely stored and project teams can determine who has access to results.
Here is a visual representation of some of the key road infrastructure features that are assessed during a typical roads inspection. The inspection identifies levels of risk for all road users. By adding key infrastructure elements such as footpaths and street lighting or improving existing elements to reduce risk we can make roads safer for all road users.
Using specially equipped vehicles, software and trained personnel, iRAP Inspections involve detailed road surveys and data collection. These focus on more than 50 different road attributes that are known to influence the likelihood of a crash and its severity.
These attributes include intersection design, the number of lanes and markings, roadside hazards, footpaths and bicycle facilities. The road inspection data underpins iRAP Star Ratings and Safer Road Investment Plans.
We want safer roads for all road users: pedestrians, bicyclists, motorcyclists and vehicle occupants.
Safe roads are a social justice, health and economic issue. In poorer communities, in particular, road traffic crashes can have catastrophic effects that tip families into poverty and destitution.
The road improvement programmes we enable make your roads safer. Because every road environment – and the community it serves – is unique, each life-saving plan we develop is unique too!
iRAP is at the cutting edge of bespoke solutions for safer mobility worldwide, regardless of how you move from A to B. Our work is making roads safer for you and your families, your community and your company.
Do you manage, design, build or maintain roads?
iRAP is an international leader in providing policy, investment and performance tracking tools for road executives, managers, engineers, designers and construction teams to build and maintain safer roads. We work worldwide with road management professionals to deliver safer roads for today and for the future.
Roads that build-in safety. Roads that deliver safer journeys for all users. Safer roads that save money! A win-win-win for all.
Safer roads are becoming the new policy norm for investors and development agencies worldwide. This creates exciting opportunities for roads professionals and the road safety community to work together to save lives.
Building all new roads to a 3-star or better standard for all road users saves lives and makes great business sense. Upgrading existing roads to maximise travel on 3-star or better roads is also practical, cost-effective and starts saving lives right away. iRAP provides the business case for investment and the tools to maximise lives saved.
Let’s work together to create a safer, better world!
We need a strong policy framework and ambitious global targets if we are to deliver safer roads that save people’s lives.
iRAP and its partners are working with international bodies, national governments and highways agencies to build a global policy consensus for safer roads.
In 2015, the United Nations included halving road deaths and serious injuries as a Sustainable Development Goal (3.6). This game-changing move put road deaths centre stage – where they belong – as a global development issue, alongside poverty reduction targets and the right to clean water.
Now, the challenge is to build on this momentum. The UN Secretary General has recommended all new roads should be built to a 3-star or better standard and existing roads upgraded. The establishment of a Safer Roads Fund to maximise travel on 3-star or better roads can provide international finance institutions, health organisations, treasury officials, road executives and road builders with the social and economic basis for safer, sustainable roads.
Let’s work together to create a world free of high-risk roads and save lives!
Road deaths and serious injuries are an international public health crisis. Every year, around 1.2 million people are killed on the world’s roads and around 30-50,000,000 people are injured.
Road crashes are the leading cause of death for young people aged between 15-29 years. Road crashes cost an estimated 2-5% of GDP in each and every country worldwide. Like other global health problems the Vaccines for Roads exist and it is just a question of the scale of our response.
iRAP is working to support the scaling up of action worldwide and reduce this tragic toll by enabling low-cost infrastructure solutions that make our roads safer.
Safer roads also make sound business sense. Dollar for dollar, safer roads provide one of the highest possible, job-creating public investments a country can make in health and infrastructure policy.
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