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.
“ Je trouve que l'application YEA est un outil formidable pour rendre les rues de mon quartier plus sûres. Grâce à elle, je peux facilement alerter les autorités locales et leur signaler les dangers. Cette application me rassure. Elle me donne aussi l'impression de contribuer à la solution, ce qui me permet d'agir concrètement ”, a confié Dang Phan*, un jeune du lycée Nguyen Hue, lors du lancement à Yen Bai.
The Youth Engagement App was developed as part of the Ai&Me Empower Youth for Safer Roads Project funded by the Fondation Botnar et Fondation 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.