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ITF Report: The future of motorway safety in Korea
Following engagement with 40 Korean road safety experts and organisations, and a review of best practice in 10 countries, the International Transport Forum (ITF) has released a new report to guide improved motorway safety in Korea. The report, Motorway Safety in...
Rodovias & Vias Magazine: “Aiming for the iRAP Stars”
Issue 129 of Brazil’s main infrastructure publication Rodovias & Vias has showcased iRAP as the definitive guide and method saving lives and transforming road infrastructure safety in Brazil and worldwide with a featured interview with iRAP Global Projects...
iRAP CEO receives Alex Award
On 1 January, iRAP CEO Rob McInerney received the inaugural “Alex Award” established in recognition of one of Australia’s great road safety advocates, the late Senator Alex Gallacher and awarded to Rob for his exemplary leadership for safer roads in Australia and...
World Bank issues first road safety sustainable development bond
Reproduced from World Bank press release, Washington, 20 December The World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IBRD, Aaa/AAA) today issued a Georgian lari 31 million 2-year Sustainable Development Bond while engaging with investors on the...
Register today for a webinar series on Safer Road Infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific – February 2022
REGISTRATION IS OPENDATES: 08, 10, 15, 17, 24 February 2022TIME: 2.00PM - 4.00PM (UTC+8) Manila, PhilippinesFree of chargeDelivered under the Road Safety Capacity Building Programme for Asia and the Pacific and Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road...
Benefit of AI in proactive road infrastructure safety management: ITF findings published
Findings of the International Transport Forum (ITF) 187 Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Proactive Road Infrastructure Safety Management have been published noting the important potential and role of AiRAP. AI pushes the limits of pattern recognition...
FIA Foundation Annual Review highlights iRAP and SR4S achievements
This year, 2021, marks twenty years since our major donor FIA Foundation was established as an independent charity to serve the public interest; their recently released Annual Review Report highlights iRAP and Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) as significant...
Latest WrapUp newsletter now available – December 2021 Edition
Welcome to iRAP’s December 2021 Newsletter - Moving together towards the Global Plan The iRAP Team would like to wish you a happy and safe holiday season.In this edition: Input provided to UN High-Level Meeting on Road Safety Preparatory Event Calls for G7 to urgently...
Calls for G7 to urgently mobilise investment for net zero
LONDON – The Impact Taskforce (ITF), an independent, industry-led taskforce supported by the G7 Presidency, has called on the G7 to take urgent action to mobilise more institutional capital for a just and inclusive transition to net zero. The recommendations were...
Important notice: ViDA updates scheduled for January 2022
We would like to thank you for being part of our RAP community. As part of our effort to improve the iRAP tool suite, we write to inform you that we are going to be conducting ViDA updates in early January 2022. We will keep the maintenance period of ViDA to the...
Star Rating for Schools celebrating success in 2021
The Star Rating for Schools team have released a short video, celebrating the success of all SR4S donors, sponsors, supporters and partners. Working towards the Global Plan, SR4S partners have been prioritising safer school journeys – Creating safer journeys for...
iRAP Global Partner Survey – we are keen to hear from you!
As iRAP and our partners work to halve global road deaths and injuries in the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030, we are always looking for ways to improve and would love your input to help us do that. The vision of our charity is a world free of high-risk...
Event Summary: 2nd BrazilRAP annual webinar
9 December 2021: For a second year in a row, BrazilRAP held an online event to discuss what has been achieved over the past year in road research, and the next strategies for implementation in 2022. The event was attended by 183 representatives from government...
NEW Training & Accreditation Newsletter – December 2021 Edition
This is the last edition of the Training and Accreditation newsletter for 2021. We want to thank all the iRAP course participants and accredited suppliers for staying with us in what was a great year. We had over 12,000 attendees in 126 courses and presentations, and...
Position available: Training and Accreditation Co-ordinator
Are you passionate about training and helping road safety professionals build their capacity, skills and knowledge? We are seeking a Training and Accreditation Co-ordinator to join our small, dynamic team that has global reach and impact. They will primarily be...
iRAP CEO presents on the role of civil society and youth at the UN High-Level meeting on Road Safety supporting event in New York
On 3 December, UN Member States and parliamentarians gathered in New York to discuss the critical domestic and international financing needs of the 2nd Decade of Action for Road Safety and how government and NGOs can ensure it is a decade of delivery and results. ...
UN Secretary General’s Report features iRAP partnerships
The latest UN Secretary-General’s Report on Improving Global Road Safety features the work of iRAP partners in more than 104 countries and references how the Star Rating Methodology and tools are supporting global stakeholders in the Second Decade of Action for Road...
SABRINA Project Training: iRAP model in the context of safer bicycle infrastructure
In the framework of the SABRINA – Safer Bicycle Routes in Danube Area project, online training was organised in cooperation iRAP. The participants from project partners’ organizations and relevant stakeholders attended the two-day workshop and were introduced to road...
Bogotá, Colombia wins 2021 International Vision Zero for Youth Leadership Award
Image credit: Vision Zero for Youth Our congratulations to the Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, Claudia López for receiving the 2021 International Vision Zero for Youth Leadership Award. The Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, Claudia López, has set specific goals to reduce overall...
Welcome Edgar Zamora – iRAPs new Safer Journeys Regional Leader (The Americas)
We are thrilled to welcome Edgar Zamora to the iRAP team in his new role as the Safer Journeys Regional Leader for The Americas. Across Latin America, the Caribbean and North America an estimated 150,000 people are killed and over 4,000,000 suffer life-changing...
Did you miss the new AusRAP directions webinar from Austroads?
An AusRAP National Webinar held on 23 November marked the transition of leadership of the Australian Road Assessment Programme from the Australian Automobile Association (AAA) to Austroads, celebrating 20 years of success and shared new opportunities for direction and...
EuroRAP News: Online Lunchtime seminar #1: Crash Risk Mapping in the UK and Croatia
The first of EuroRAP’s Lunchtime seminar, which took place on 9 November 2021, attracted 75 registrations from 35 different countries from all over the world. During the seminar we focused on the ‘RAP basics’ and learned about Crash Risk Mapping on the examples from...
Star rating global icons of the world
In an innovative initiative, iRAP Accredited Supplier Safe System Solutions has star rated famous global roads - from the Champs Elysees in Paris, Stelvio Pass Italy and Las Vegas Boulevard in Nevada USA, to the Atlantic Ocean Road Norway and Abbey Road London. The...
A strategy to make roads safer: 3 steps for assessing and enabling road safety in transit oriented development
Reproduced from World Bank Blogs.Article by Gerald Ollivier, Prerna Mehta, Abhishek Behera and Alina Burlacu This blog is part of “Let's talk about Streets for Life” – a blog series on Transit-Oriented Development and Road Safety. Previously in its blog series, World...
Congratulations NRSPP Australia and Safer Roads Fund UK: 2021 Prince Michael Award Winners
LONDON – Congratulations to all 2021 winners of the Prince Michael International Road Safety Awards including EuroRAP partners Safer Roads Fund UK and AusRAP partners National Road Safety Partnership Program Australia. Prince Michael International Road Safety Awards...
Thailand’s DRR wins IRF Global Achievement Award for 2nd year running
Thailand’s Department of Rural Roads (DRR) has been awarded, for the second year running, the International Road Federation (IRF) Global Achievement Award in the Safety Category for its Integrated Road Safety Management System. DRR’s iRAP-endorsed Road Safety Audit...
World Day of Remembrance – Zipping vehicles wreck human lives! Today, time to mull over it
Image caption: (L-R) Teertha (11) and Dikshant (21) died in crashes; Rahil (38) is in a wheelchair Reproduced from Times of India. Story by Nitasha Natu. MUMBAI: Teertha Patel would have turned 12 this month. The days in the run up to her birthday were always spent...
EuroRAP News: RADAR project comes to an end after 3.5 years
After three and a half years EuroRAP RADAR Project has come to an end. A lot has been achieved during the last few years. To name some, more than 300 road safety specialists have been trained on identifying and improving risk on the road networks; tolls like ViDA and...
How to achieve a star rating target course available in Portuguese
In support of the Global Road Safety Performance Targets 3 and 4, this webinar will teach participants how the RAP Tool, ViDA, can be used to plan infrastructure and speed management improvements that will achieve a star rating target for all road users. This...
First Accredited Inspection System for LIDAR
Anditi’s Roadviewer is the 16th iRAP accredited inspection system and the first in the world that allows users to code Star Rating attributes based on 3D mobile LiDAR data. RoadViewer uses existing data captured by TomTom as part of its global mobile mapping (MoMa)...
How road authorities use high-quality map data to make roads safer for everyone
Reproduced from TomTom blog. Story by Bart Volckaert. Road crashes take a huge toll on individuals, their families, and nations, claiming the lives of more than 3,000 people each day and costing 3% of global GDP on average. By identifying and prioritizing...
Star Rating for Schools Results in Vietnam showcased
AIP Foundation, AA Vietnam and iRAP co-hosted the Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) with Hands-on Examples of Vietnam Webinar on 11 November with the support of the FIA and FIA Foundation. The webinar brought together over 60 SR4S technical experts, Region II FIA clubs...
Inscreva-se agora – BrazilRAP webinar: Segunda reunião anual
Inscreva-se agora Data: 9 de dezembro de 2021.Horário: das 10:00 às 12:00, horário de Brasília. O programa BrazilRAP visa abordar vias de alto risco em todo o país em parceria com agências nacionais e estaduais. O programa é patrocinado pelo DNIT e conta com a...
iRAP is proud to support #WDoR21: Remember – Support – ACT
On Sunday 21 November, World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims 2021 (WDoR21) will put the spotlight on the reduction of traffic speeds – low speeds, which have the potential to prevent many deaths and serious injuries, in particular those of pedestrians and...
National RAP Leads Gather for Coffee and Connect
Almost 50 leads of national road assessment programmes in 26 countries gathered today for Coffee and Connect, a biannual event which provides the opportunity for programmes to learn from best practice and innovation, and collaborate for success. The session included...
RAP Tools to Support the Global Plan
iRAP and its partners have developed a suite of tools that use the iRAP methodology to support the Global Plan for Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030, which sets a target of 50% reduction in road deaths and injuries.These RAP Tools also support the achievement...
Nova Dutra concession auctions with iRAP safety metric
One of the most important highways in Brazil, the Nova Dutra Concession linking Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, has successfully auctioned with an iRAP safety metric and investments of $2.73 billion to modernize and improve the safety of the road. The Public-Private...
NGOs handover Global Decade Plan with commitment call
Uruguay: Unidad Nacional de Seguridad Vial (UNASEV) receiving the Global Plan from iRAP Star Rating for Schools' Lead Partner Fundación Gonzalo Rodríguez Road safety NGOs in more than 20 countries, supported by local RAPs and YOURS, have met with national...
iRAP releases Plan for 2nd Decade of Action
iRAP has released its Plan for the Second Decade of Action for Road Safety to save 2,000,000+ people from death or injury, make 200,000+km of roads safer and influence USD$200 billion of road infrastructure investment to save lives in the next 10 years. With the theme...
AusRAP News: New direction under Austroads
An AusRAP National Webinar on 23 November will mark the transition of leadership of the Australian Road Assessment Programme from the Australian Automobile Association (AAA) to Austroads, celebrating 20 years of success and sharing new opportunities for direction and...
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