In exciting developments, iRAP has integrated results from the YEA (Youth Engagement App), recording road safety perceptions of students travelling to and from school, into Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) assessments to provide a more comprehensive picture of the safety of school zones across Vietnam, and soon the world.
The YEA is an innovative iRAP tool which empowers youth to participate in and inform road safety decision-making, and raise awareness on safer roads. The app collaborates with the SR4S programme, collecting the road safety perceptions of students travelling to and from school.
YEA information is now displayed in the SR4S web app, and can support the identification of locations for infrastructure assessment with SR4S. It is possible to filter them by safety level, and assessors can then create SR4S locations in the areas informed by the students.
The YEA is currently being piloted in 3 cities in Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City, Pleiku City, and Yen Bai), where 1,800 students have pinned 15,000 locations noting their safety perceptions on road safety risk at each location. The results will support the SR4S assessment of 106 priority schools.
“Creo que la YEA es una herramienta fantástica para crear calles más seguras en mi vecindario. Con la aplicación, puedo alertar fácilmente a las autoridades locales y hacerles saber dónde hay un peligro. Esta aplicación me hace sentir más segura. También me hace sentir que soy parte de la solución, lo que me da el poder de generar un impacto”, compartió Dang Phan*, un joven local de la escuela secundaria Nguyen Hue en el evento de lanzamiento en Yen Bai.
The Youth Engagement App was developed as part of the Ai&Me Empower Youth for Safer Roads Project funded by the Fundación Botnar y Fundación FIA. The app has been developed by iRAP with the collaboration of the AIP Foundation.
Examples of comments captured:
- Sidewalks are bad.
- It is difficult to cross the streets.
- The streets are not well lit.
- Vehicles travel at high speeds.