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Welcome to iRAP’s May 2021 Newsletter - Partnerships for 2030 Impact iRAP is ready for the 2nd Decade of Action for Road Safety At its most recent meeting the iRAP Board of Trustees signed off on the charity’s life-saving strategy for the decade and the fine details...

We have updated the ViDA user guide and the Star Rating for Designs user guide, and have made them available in Spanish as well as English. ViDA User Guide - This guide introduces ViDA, iRAP’s online analysis and reporting tool, and provides instructions for accessing...

iRAP calls on its partners and the community worldwide to support the 6th United Nations Global Road Safety Week (UNGRSW) #StreetsForLife #Love30 campaign from the 17 - 23 May 2021. Low speed streets save lives. 30km/h speeds protect road users and reduce loss of...

The following opinion piece was published in Autonomy Paris Urban Mobility Weekly on May 6 2021 Every day, road crashes kill over 3,600 people across the world. 56 people are left quadriplegic, 161 are rendered amputees, 932 suffer severe acquired brain injuries and...

Invitation to attend the webinar series: World Bank and iRAP helping save lives in Africa - BIGRS 2020-25 DATES: 06, 09, 13 & 16 July 2021TIME: 3.00PM - 4.30PM (UTC+3) Addis Ababa, EthiopiaFree of charge Please note this webinar will be delivered in English...

Halving road deaths and injuries by 2030 will require a team effort.  We need to scale up the proven interventions and partnerships worldwide and work together to achieve the UN Global Road Safety Performance Targets and save more than 450,000 lives a year. At its...

Thanks to the hard work from the ThaiRAP team, we have now been able to add Thai language on ViDA and Demonstrator to support road risk analysis and assessment for users in Thailand.  . ViDA and Demonstrator are platforms for road safety analysis used to assess risk...

With a surge of cycling due to COVID impacts, the rise of food delivery apps, dockless share bikes and e-bikes, a second generation CycleRAP model is now under development guided by experts from 20 global organisations. The concept of CycleRAP originated in 2015 by...

The official page for the Ten Step Plan Tanzania project is available on the global Transport Knowledge Partnership website   Tanzania has been selected for implementation of the Ten Step Plan for Safer Road Infrastructure Pilot Project funded by the United Nations...

iRAP has proudly supported the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG)’s Safety Day campaign on 28 April to support the application of the UN targets for 3-star or better roads for all road users and enhance infrastructure investment for development impact in...

We are delighted to announce that iRAP will be participating at Autonomy Digital 2.0, The world’s largest platform for sustainable mobility solutions held online over the 19 - 20 May 2021. On Thursday 20 May, iRAP's Star Rating for Schools Global Programme Coordinator...

The Australasian College of Road Safety (ACRS) has recently announced Scholarships for road safety researchers and practitioners from LMIC are available to present and/or participate in ARSC2021 28-30 September 2021. These scholarships are funded by the Department of...

iRAP has a new and improved Learning Management System to host our online courses, called Moodle. iRAP now has 21 online courses available to be taken at your own pace. In the past two years, these courses were delivered through a Learning Management System called...

Position available: Data Analyst Six-month part-time contract with possibility of extension (3 person months FTE equivalent)In 2021, the International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) has a number of global innovation projects in the area of road safety. iRAP is...

March 2021: ARRB's National Leader - Transport Safety, Mr David McTiernan presented to NSW local government engineers at the IPWEA NSW State Conference how AusRAP can help them deliver safer road infrastructure. The Star Rating of Australia's National and State...

In August 2020, the UN General Assembly adopted resolution 74/299 "Improving global road safety", proclaiming the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030, with the ambitious target of preventing at least 50% of road traffic deaths and injuries by 2030. WHO and the...

EuroRAP enters next phase at the start of 2nd UN Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030 The Stockholm Declaration and the 2nd UN Decade of Action for Road Safety call for a new level of partnership activity to halve road deaths and injuries by 2030.  Building on...

SLAIN Project (Saving Lives Assessing and Improving TEN-T Road Network Safety) A "How to" guide for network-wide road assessment is now available, with the objective to build on material used in activity 3 (Technical justification for network-wide road assessment) to...

Lois Anne Leal and Chaitree Sham Baradkar participated in the innovative iRAP Omdena 8 week Challenge earlier this year to find AI-based solutions to map crash risk and generate iRAP star rating attribute data. They were just 2 of 50 AI and machine learning engineers...

We are happy to announce that the iRAP website is now available in multi-languages. The website can now be viewed in automatic translations for English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian and Vietnamese. To view the iRAP website in the appropriate language, go to...

EuroRAP News: For the first time, a road engineer from Russia, representing GLONASS BDD, has appeared on the list of 156 iRAP accredited suppliers from around the world. The iRAP methodology, based on scientific research, evaluates and assigns Star Ratings for the...

iRAP calls on its partners and the community worldwide to support the 6th United Nations Global Road Safety Week (UNGRSW) #StreetsForLife #Love30 campaign which is now live. Addressing the risk of death in road traffic is fundamental to achieve the Sustainable...

INTERNATIONAL ROAD FEDERATION PRESS RELEASE: Geneva / Dar es Salaam, 16 March 2021 The Tanzania Minister for Works and Transport, H.E. Eng. Dr Leonard Madaraka Chamuriho, has officially launched the “Ten Step Plan for Safer Road Infrastructure” project in an on-line...

PRESS RELEASE First Guide to Help Identify What Works and What Does Not Work in Road Safety  Washington D.C. (March 15, 2021) – The World Bank’s Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF) launched today the Guide for Road Safety Interventions: Evidence of What Works and What...

The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) partnership with iRAP’s award-winning Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) programme is delivering unprecedented resources and funding to mobility clubs for safer school journeys world-wide. Two major FIA initiatives are...

Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world. Today we are celebrating International Women's Day 2021. The theme this year celebrates the tremendous efforts by women and girls around the world in shaping a more equal future and recovery from the...