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iRAP’s research and innovation initiatives, projects and partnerships help create the tools to improve safety across our road networks – for everyone. <\/span><\/h3>\n

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Innovation initiatives and projects<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\"\"<\/td>AiRAP stands for the \u2018accelerated and intelligent\u2019 capture of road safety-related data using automatic, repeatable and scalable methods.<\/td>Click here for more information<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>CycleRAP is an easy, affordable and fast method of evaluating road and bicycling infrastructure to reduce crashes and improve safety specifically for bicyclists and other light mobility users. <\/td>Click here for more information<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n
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Star Rating for Designs (SR4D)\u00a0provides road designers the means to ensure road safety is \u2018built in\u2019 to a road design for before it is built to help achieve UN Target 3<\/a>.<\/p><\/td>

Click here for more information<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n
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YEA is an intuitive digital risk-perception tool that allows students to map locations where they feel \u201csafe\u201d or \u201cunsafe\u201d on their journey to school.<\/p><\/td>

Click here for more information<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n
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The School Safety Assessment Framework standardizes the processes for selecting, evaluating, and providing recommendations to improve road safety in high-risk schools. It leverages big data, mobile technology, and community engagement. This framework was developed as part of the \"AI&Me: Empowering Youth for Safer Roads\" project, funded by Foundation Botnar and the FIA Foundation.<\/p><\/td>

Click here for more information<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n
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The AI&Me: Leveraging AI tool for road safety impact project funded by Google.org leverages Artificial Intelligence (AI), iRAP\u2019s Star Rating for Schools and AiRAP partnership to provide 3-star or better journeys to school and address road traffic crashes that are the leading cause of death among children and young people worldwide.<\/p><\/td>

Click here for more information<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n
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The \u2018Predictive Approaches for Safer Urban Environment\u2019 (PHOEBE) project aims to increase the road safety of vulnerable road users, especially those who use active mobility and e-scooters through the inter-disciplinary power of traffic simulation and road safety assessment. <\/span><\/p><\/td>

Click here for more information<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n
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ELABORATOR uses a holistic approach for planning, designing, implementing and deploying specific innovations and interventions towards safe, inclusive and sustainable urban mobility. The interventions will be demonstrated in 12 European cities.<\/span><\/p><\/td>

Click here for more information<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n
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The Route Review Tool (RRT) is a web tool for road safety engineers. The RRT makes it easy to work with iRAP results and turn ideas into real road safety changes, providing tools to explore, review, and refine investment plans to create a User Defined Investment Plan (UDIP).<\/p><\/td>

Click here for more information<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n
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Analysis of Star Ratings by gender will help us better understand and compare the differences in safety as a result of gender differences in mode and travel patterns.<\/p><\/td>

Click here for more information<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n
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Light data methods for network scanning have been developed and tested by EuroRAP<\/a><\/span>, ThaiRAP<\/a><\/span> and Austroads.<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/td>

Click here for more information<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n
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Social impact investing aims to \u2018unlock\u2019 the benefits of improving road safety by mobilising private-sector finance and donor funding through \u201cSaving Lives Bonds\u201d<\/p><\/td>

Click here for more information<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n
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Mapping where 75% of travel occurs across a road network to help achieve UN Target 4<\/a>.<\/span><\/p><\/td>

Click here for more information<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n
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Decimal Star Ratings will enable a greater level of resolution in the assessment of the level of safety built into a road section.<\/p><\/td>

Click here for more information<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n
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Impact monitoring and evaluation to understand how iRAP\u2019s activities and protocols are reducing injury lives saved and injuries reduced across 100+ countries.

Click here to learn more about our Global Analytics<\/a><\/span><\/span>
Click here to learn more about our Programme Management System<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/td>

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Partnership initiatives<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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iRAP and partner initiatives to further research, knowledge sharing and development of tools for improved speed management.<\/p><\/td>

Click here for more information<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n
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iRAP and partner initiatives to deliver \u201cSmart Motorway\u201d or \u201cITS\u201d model enhancements to expand the range of safety treatments to include ITS and related technologies.

Click here to learn more about ITS enhancements<\/a><\/span>
Click here to learn more about the shunt crash model<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/td>

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iRAP and partner initiatives to understand the role road safety assessments will have in ensuring infrastructure design supports the driver assistance technologies and increasing levels of autonomous vehicles.<\/p><\/td>

Click here for more information<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n
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The Road Safety Foundation\u2019s Active Travel Tool aims to help UK road authorities evaluate active travel facilities for both safety according to Safe System principles and age and ability.<\/p><\/td>

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Innovation Partnerships<\/strong><\/h3>\n

iRAP brings together teams which share a common interest in saving lives through safer roads and safer journeys. Our global partnerships with governments, mobility clubs, industry and research groups ensure innovative ideas from one programme partner can be shared immediately with others for mutual benefit.<\/p>\n

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What is the Innovation Framework?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Innovation Framework provides the governance structures, partnerships and discipline for the development and operations of new products and services, modelling innovations and partnerships which use iRAP intelligence.<\/p>\n

The Framework addresses:<\/p>\n