Jun 2, 2025 | Certification, General, Middle East, News
Dammam, Saudi Arabia — May 2025 In a landmark development for road safety in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Eastern Province Municipality has achieved the nation’s first urban iRAP Star Rating Certification, marking a regional milestone in the application of...
Apr 28, 2025 | 3 star, AiRAP, Climate Change, CycleRAP, Events, News, RAP Tools, Resources, SR4S, Star rating for designs, UN Global Road Safety Week, Youth Engagement App
UN Global Road Safety Week, observed from 12-18 May 2025, focuses on the theme “Streets for Life: #MakeWalkingSafe and #MakeCyclingSafe”. iRAP is proud to join this global effort to raise awareness and promote advocacy and action for safer road...
Dec 16, 2024 | Asia Pacific, Assessments, Climate Change, General, News
The Government of Kiribati (GoK) and the World Bank have recently completed an iRAP road safety assessment on Kiritimati Island in the Pacific, as part of the preparation of the proposed Kiribati Kiritimati Infrastructure Project. As the world’s largest coral...
Nov 26, 2024 | Asia Pacific, News, Star rating for designs
On 14 November 2024, Ministry of Transport representatives and other stakeholders from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan met in Tashkent as part of the collaboration between UNESCAP, iRAP, EASST and the International Road Federation (IRF) to review and improve...
Oct 28, 2024 | #RAPKnowledgeLive, General, News, RAP Tools, Star rating for designs
Participants from 54 countries tuned in last week for the 11th #RAPKnowledgeLive session – A key to safer roads. In this session, participants learned how to use the Star Rating for Designs (SR4D) tool to assess and improve road safety by evaluating road designs and...
Oct 18, 2024 | General, News, Star rating for designs
At the IRF World Congress is Instanbul yesterday, iRAP and the International Road Federation (IRF) hosted a first-ever High-level Roundtable: Shaping the Future of Road Designs for Safe and Sustainable Mobility. The pivotal dialogue was moderated by Jamie Leather,...
Oct 14, 2024 | News, RAP Tools, Star rating for designs
Innovative enhancements to iRAP’s Star Rating for Designs (SR4D) web app, allowing the safety of road designs to measured before the commencement of civil works, will be unveiled today at the IRF World Congress in Istanbul. The safety of nearly 58,000 kilometres of...
Oct 10, 2024 | Events, General, News, RAP Tools, Star rating for designs
Join us for our #RAPKnowledge Live Session 11: Star Rating for Designs – A key to safer roads. In this session, you can learn how to use the Star Rating for Designs (SR4D) tool to assess and improve road safety by evaluating road designs and identifying...
Aug 5, 2024 | General, News, Star rating for designs
The International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP), the International Road Federation (IRF) and the FIA Foundation have launched a #SaferRoadsPledge campaign calling on organisations involved in designing and financing roads to pledge their commitment to safer roads...
Mar 14, 2024 | Asia Pacific, News, Star rating for designs
The journey continues this week for our “Safe and Inclusive Road Designs for Central Asia” project, with meetings in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, following last week’s project launch in Kyrgyzstan. The meetings are part of a new and transformative United...
Feb 29, 2024 | Certification, General, News, Star rating for designs
Civil Engineer Dominic Waterhouse has shared Arup’s experience obtaining iRAP Certification for the proposed design of the Tonkin Highway Extension project in Western Australia, and the value it brought to project partners. Arup, on behalf of Main Roads Western...
Feb 20, 2024 | Asia Pacific, General, News
An Asian Development Bank (ADB) report reveals that a major road safety project in Shaanxi, China, reduced deaths by 33% and injuries by 53% on 850km of roads. This translates to 32 lives and 868 injuries saved annually. This impressive outcome coincided with a 22%...
Feb 19, 2024 | General, News, Star rating for designs
Tanzania’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridors in Dar es Salaam are slashing travel times and improving safety for commuters, thanks to construction by the Tanzanian Government with the World Bank, development partners and investors. Phase 1 opened in 2016 with 29 buses...
Feb 13, 2024 | News, Star rating for designs
Improved road design standards for Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) countries, and in particular the pilot countries of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, is an urgent goal of a new United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the...
Sep 7, 2022 | News, Star rating for designs
The International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) and digital start-up ORIS have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will see safety performance data produced using the iRAP Methodology integrated into ORIS’ pavement design platforms, helping to optimise...
Aug 22, 2022 | CycleRAP, General, News, Star rating for designs
A new SS4A Grant Scheme is delivering $5 billion in funding over five years to prevent roadway deaths and serious injuries in the United States and iRAP Tools including Star Rating for Schools, CycleRAP and Star Rating for Designs Tools can beautifully support project...
Jul 28, 2022 | Certification, News, Star rating for designs
The World Bank’s new Guide to Integrating Safety into Road Design recognises the iRAP Star Rating, the Star Rating for Designs Tool and Road Assessment Programmes as valuable measures for ensuring safety is systematically embedded in road designs to save lives. Whilst...
Jul 6, 2022 | News, Star rating for designs
We were pleased to be a part of the 6th International Symposium on Highway Geometric Design (ISHGD2022), featuring the 6th Urban Street Symposium in Amsterdam last week. The Symposium was held from 26-29 June and, held every 5 years, aims to encourage the continuous...
Jun 7, 2022 | General, News, Star rating for designs
The first meeting of a new global Road Designers Consultation Group has occurred today providing valuable insights into how we achieve the shared global goal of safe road designs, with a star rating for every road design on earth. Over 100 nominations were received...
Mar 23, 2022 | General, News, Star rating for designs
Despite knowledge and free tools to improve the safety of road designs, unsafe 1- and 2-star roads are still being built every day. However, a new Global Road Designers Consultation Group is aiming to save lives by improving software and training worldwide to ensure...
Feb 18, 2022 | Arup SR4D, General, Star rating for designs
Global engineering firm Arup has been using Star Rating for Designs (SR4D) to improve the safety of their road designs and their corporate strategy for Outcome Led Design to save lives. Arup has 16,000 designers and staff working across 35 countries and was looking to...
Oct 8, 2021 | General, News, Star rating for designs
Come with us on a virtual journey through the tunnels, overpasses and multi-lane carriageways beneath and across Santiago to see how engineering safety at the design stage can save lives, money and time. Designs for the Américo Vespucio Oriente I (AVO I) concession in...
Aug 19, 2021 | General, News, Star rating for designs
Star Rating of Designs for the improvements to the Nekempte–Bure Road in Ethiopia, west of Addis Ababa are underway. The safety project is funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies and being undertaken by the Global Road Safety Facility with local road authorities. iRAP...
Nov 29, 2018 | News, Star rating for designs
Putting a systematic network level safety assessment tool into designers’ hands, to help build roads safely the first time. Thursday 29 November: With support from the World Bank’s Global Road Safety Facility, iRAP has launched the new Star Rating for Design (SR4D)...
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