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Star Rating of Designs for the improvements to the Nekempte\u2013Bure Road in Ethiopia, west of Addis Ababa are underway. The safety project is funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies and being undertaken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":47916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"
The main objective of the project is the preparation of technical road safety studies and their dissemination to inform the World Bank team on safety engineering measures that could save lives on selected roads in the country. This assistance is delivered through a series of technical activities comprising of\u00a0iRAP<\/strong>\u00a0baseline and\u00a0Star Rating for Design<\/strong> (SR4D) assessments, together with dissemination activities to ensure that project roads include road safety best practices.<\/p> In particular, iRAP activities relate to the Nekempte \u2013 Bure road section of approximately 170 km, west of Addis Ababa.<\/p> FRED Engineering has said, \"We are very proud of this new success that consolidates FRED Engineering\u2019s presence in sub-Saharan Africa and places us as a global reference in the implementation of iRAP protocols.\"<\/p> For more information on iRAP Accreditation, visit https:\/\/irap.org\/accreditation\/<\/a><\/p> According to iRAP\u2019s\u00a0Vaccines for Roads<\/a>\u00a0Big Data Tool<\/a>, over 27,000 people die on Ethiopia's roads each year (WHO, 2015) and achieving UN Target 3 for >75% of travel on 3-star or better roads for all road users by 2030 stands to save an estimated 12,000 lives every year.<\/p><\/div><\/div>","_et_gb_content_width":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,24,120],"tags":[150,283,37,580,579,578,179],"class_list":["post-47914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-news","category-star-rating-for-designs","tag-accreditation","tag-accredited-supplier","tag-africa","tag-design","tag-ethiopia","tag-fred","tag-sr4d"],"yoast_head":"\n