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![CycleRAP receives Honorable Mention in the Promoting Mobility by Bicycle in Brazil 2024 award](https://irap.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CycleRAP-hon-mention.png)
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CycleRAP News: Attesting Safety of Pampulha Lagoon Cycle Path Redesign
Image credit: Metrics Mobilidade Metrics Mobilidade, with a team with over 30 years’ experience in urban mobility studies and cycling infrastructure design, has joined our CycleRAP family as our first licensed supplier in Latin America, analysing the safety of cycle...![Safer roads for Aysen, Chile](https://irap.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Aysen-training-1-1080x675.jpg)
Safer roads for Aysen, Chile
Earlier this month, staff from Dirección de Vialidad Ministry of Public Works, DDQ Engineering Consultants and APSA attended iRAP training in Coyhaique, Chile focussed on iRAP assessment results for the Region of Aysen. The training and assessment is part of a larger...![SICT and iRAP sign MOU for safer roads in Mexico](https://irap.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/SICT-sign-1-1080x675.jpg)
SICT and iRAP sign MOU for safer roads in Mexico
The Government of Mexico, through the Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT), and the International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote programmes and projects to eliminate...![Panama includes 3-star or better star rating targets in PPP Contract for East Pan-American Highway](https://irap.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/iStock-1481718416-1-1080x675.jpg)
Panama includes 3-star or better star rating targets in PPP Contract for East Pan-American Highway
Image Credit: iStock – Rainer Lesniewski On July 19, 2023, the Panamanian Ministry of Public Works (MOP) opened bids for a public-private partnership (PPP) project to rehabilitate, improve, and maintain the Pan-American Highway East running along 246.2 km from...![CycleRAP News: Crowdsourcing cycling safety data in one of Latin America’s largest cities](https://irap.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/on-road-bike-lane-provided-by-one-of-the-cyclists-participating-in-the-Auditoria-Cidada-Source-Ciclocidade-1.jpg)
CycleRAP News: Crowdsourcing cycling safety data in one of Latin America’s largest cities
The Cyclists Association of São Paulo, Ciclocidade, is working closely with the municipality to promote safe and sustainable mobility and use the bicycle as an instrument of city transformation. The entity has as its principle active participation and acts to include...![DNIT Brazil awarded Winner of coveted international Gary Liddle Memorial Award](https://irap.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/DNIT-award-1080x675.jpg)
DNIT Brazil awarded Winner of coveted international Gary Liddle Memorial Award
Mrs Meredith Liddle; Julio Urzua, iRAP Strategic Projects Director, collecting the trophy on behalf of DNIT; and Miquel Nadal, iRAP Board Chairman The International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) has proudly announced Brazil’s National Department of Transport...![DNIT Brazil awarded a Finalist for coveted international Gary Liddle Memorial Award](https://irap.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Gary-Liddle-Memorial-trophy_DNIT-header-image-1080x675.jpg)
DNIT Brazil awarded a Finalist for coveted international Gary Liddle Memorial Award
The International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) has proudly announced Brazil’s National Department of Transport Infrastructure (DNIT) as a Finalist for the iRAP Gary Liddle Memorial Trophy presented to the world’s best performing road authority eliminating...![New IDB Report shares road safety progress in Latin America and the Caribbean including iRAP](https://irap.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/IDB2-905x675.jpg)
New IDB Report shares road safety progress in Latin America and the Caribbean including iRAP
A new report published by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) shares learnings of the first Decade of Action and prospects to save lives and serious injuries on safer roads in Latin America. The “Road safety in Latin America and the Caribbean: After a...![Jamaica Gleaner reports: ‘Time come’ to combat impact of road accidents on national development; 3-star or better roads a priority](https://irap.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/pixabay-jprovisual_road-5904924_1280-1080x675.jpg)
Jamaica Gleaner reports: ‘Time come’ to combat impact of road accidents on national development; 3-star or better roads a priority
Article reproduced from Jamaica Gleaner, 2 April 2023 Reducing road traffic injuries and deaths is now a big issue in Jamaica. How to prevent what happened #fiveatonetime in Temple Hall, St Andrew recently is a major concern for so many families who have...![iRAP and COSEVI sign MOU to work together for safer roads in Costa Rica](https://irap.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/COSEVI-MOU-signing-900.jpg)
iRAP and COSEVI sign MOU to work together for safer roads in Costa Rica
The Road Safety Council of Costa Rica (COSEVI) and International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) are proud to announce the signing today of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to promote programmes and projects to eliminate high-risk roads in Costa Rica. According to...![Come see us at the Global Alliance of NGOs Meeting, El Salvador](https://irap.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Alliance-NGOs-image-1009x675.png)
Come see us at the Global Alliance of NGOs Meeting, El Salvador
iRAP looks forward to sharing the life-saving impact of Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) and roads made safer world-wide thanks to the inspiring work of road safety NGOs at next week’s Global Meeting of the Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety in El Salvador. iRAP is...![World’s most southern roads under spotlight](https://irap.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/pexels-mateusz-walendzik-13514680-CROP.jpg)
World’s most southern roads under spotlight
The safety of the world’s most southern and starkly beautiful roads is under the spotlight with an iRAP assessment underway by the Ministry of Public Works and DDQ Engineering Consultants in the picturesque and mountainous Magallanes, Aysén and Los Lagos Regions of...![BrazilRAP DNIT delivers 54,500km of roads coded by iRAP](https://irap.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Pexels-Thiago-Zanutim-Lucas-video-2-1080x618.jpg)
BrazilRAP DNIT delivers 54,500km of roads coded by iRAP
Brazil’s National Department of Transport Infrastructure (DNIT) has completed the coding and star rating classification of 54,500 km of paved federal highways under its administration using the iRAP methodology. For the federal road network coded by the DNIT,...![iRAP featured in Revista Carreteras Magazine including “Brazil Aiming for the Stars” (in Spanish)](https://irap.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Carreteras-cover.jpg)
iRAP featured in Revista Carreteras Magazine including “Brazil Aiming for the Stars” (in Spanish)
Thanks to the Spanish Road Association (Revista Téchnica de la Asociación Española do le Carretera) for its 7-page feature on “Brazil Aiming for the Stars” in the latest issue 237 of Revista Carreteras Magazine. The issue also includes two additional articles that...![Potential of safer Caribbean roads on show in Barbados](https://irap.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IRF-Barbardos-0622c-900.jpg)
Potential of safer Caribbean roads on show in Barbados
iRAP’s Safer Journeys Regional Leader for the Americas is in Barbados this week presenting at the landmark 10th IRF Caribbean Regional Congress aiming to bring solutions and best practice to the twin challenges of road safety and climate-resilient infrastructure...![VíaSegura: Digital technology for improving road safety](https://irap.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Via-Segura-Moviliblog-image-1080x675.jpg)
VíaSegura: Digital technology for improving road safety
Reproduced from IDB’s Moviliblog According to the World Health Organization (WHO), traffic crashes are responsible for 1.35 million deaths worldwide. Traffic fatalities are an avoidable public health crisis that particularly impacts low- and middle-income...![Pacific Corridor to be reassessed 10 years after first analysis](https://irap.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/karsten-wurth-rafblRbne3o-unsplash-min-scaled-1-1080x675.jpg)
Pacific Corridor to be reassessed 10 years after first analysis
Ten years after its first safety analysis, iRAP is supporting an Inter-American Development Bank reassessment of Central America’s Pacific Corridor connecting 7 countries, with the potential to save 65,000 lives. The Pacific Corridor is the most important land route...![iRAP Assessment informs a USD$300 million World Bank-funded NOA Development in Argentina](https://irap.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Jujuy9.jpg)
iRAP Assessment informs a USD$300 million World Bank-funded NOA Development in Argentina
Image Credit (above & right): Revista Vial (Road Magazine) The USD$300 million World Bank-funded Northwest Road Corridor Development (NOA), informed by an iRAP assessment, has a 3-star or better design condition and is part of a larger project that will help to...![iRAP webinar builds capacity of 52 IDB staff to save lives in Latin America and the Caribbean](https://irap.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/IDB-webinar-2-1080x675.jpg)