


What makes a 3-star or better school journey?
Every four minutes, a child dies in a traffic crash around the world. Many others are permanently injured. Children walking to school are particularly vulnerable. In many countries, most crashes involving children happen within 500m from the school, many of them at...
Want to help make journeys to school safe? We’re recruiting a Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) Coordinator
iRAP is looking for a collaborative and enthusiastic person with a passion for safe mobility and experience in road safety to coordinate the global Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) program. Road crashes are the major cause of death of young people aged 5-24 years old....
FedEx Cares 50 by 50 – We did it!
Since 2019, FedEx Cares has been on a journey to directly and positively impact 50 million people by their 50th birthday on April 17, 2023. iRAP is proud to have contributed to FedEx reaching this incredible milestone and so grateful for their sponsorship support of...
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...
Launch of the AI&Me Youth Engagement App encourages young voices to champion safer mobility in Vietnam
As part of our innovative Big Data road safety project, AI&Me: Empowering youth for safer roads, we are excited to launch the Youth Engagement App (YEA) pilot in Ho Chi Minh City, Pleiku City, and Yen Bai starting December 2022 to January 2023. The launch engages...
Global partnerships and safer schools under spotlight at IRF R2T Conference in Washington
Thanks to our partners, iRAP’s influence in creating safer school journeys and delivering vision zero through partnerships was presented at this week’s International Road Federation (IRF Global) R2T Conference in Washington DC. Under the conference theme The...
India’s National Dialogue on Road Safety for Children
IndiaRAP Technical Manager Jigesh Bhavsar presented at a National Dialogue on Road Safety for Children Workshop in Delhi today, marking the occasion of National Engineers Day in the country. The one-day workshop drew leading road safety stakeholders committed to...
Show me the way: Big Data reveals highest-risk schools in Vietnam
In three Vietnamese cities homing over 9 million people, how can we begin to identify the highest risk school zones and the children who use them daily to tackle the leading killer of youth – road traffic crashes. The answer? Big Data. A Big Data Screening Methodology...
Attention USA Partners! $5 billion in Grants available until 15 September
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...
Big data and youth voices: AI&Me celebrates its 1st anniversary for safer schools in Vietnam
Mobility has a different definition for every person around the world. Some of us take cars and motorbikes to bring their children to school. Other students can walk or ride their bicycle. No matter how we move, mobility is at the heart of our society, and our future...
In Pleiku City, Vietnam 25 upgraded school zones achieve top safety ratings
The Slow Zones, Safe Zones program will continue to improve road safety immensely in Pleiku while increasingly encouraging families to walk and ride their bicycles to school, paving the way for healthier and greener cities. Article and images reproduced from AIP...
Building a common road safety agenda in Latin America with FIA Region IV and FIA Foundation
iRAP was proud to join an FIA Region IV and FIA Foundation workshop recently presenting iRAP programmes and tools and to define a working mechanism for mobility clubs in the region to work together to achieve a common agenda – making roads safer for all. The...
Catch us on Podcast: NETS Talk Now, Driving Change
iRAP is proud to feature on this month’s NETS Talk Now: Driving Change Podcast discussing the impact of road infrastructure safety for fleet and community safety worldwide. Guest presenter and iRAP CEO Rob McInerney said, “There is one thing everyone...
FISEVI draws focus to protecting children on roads in Colombia
FISEVI 2022, the most important forum on children’s road safety in Latin America, has provided an important opportunity for iRAP collaboration with regional partners to reduce the human and economic cost of road crashes – the leading killer of children and...
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...
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...
Raquel Barrios brings youth to iRAP governance
Raquel Barrios has joined the iRAP Board bringing youth and social entrepreneurship skills to the charity’s governance. Based in Madrid, Raquel is the Youth for Road Safety (YOURS) Project Manager leading the Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety, a support structure...
Kwapda’as Road Safety Demand Trust celebrates 10 years saving lives
At the core of every iRAP programme is a partnership to save lives. Working together to eliminate high-risk roads will unlock the win-win benefits of safer roads, leading to reduced burden on families, communities, and the health system. Kwapda’as Road Safety...
EuroRAP news: Automobile Club of Moldova (ACM) starts pilot schools assessment supported by SR4S
EuroRAP RADAR project partner, Automobile Club of Moldova (ACM) has started a pilot school assessment programme in two schools in urban and rural contexts, supported by Star Rating for Schools. One school was selected in Congaz village in the Gagauz region (one of the...
Alliance members pilot SR4S app
The Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety is one of iRAP’s Lead Partners in the pilot phase of development and rollout of the Star Rating for Schools program. In Cambodia, Cameroon, India, Kenya, Malaysia, and Nigeria, Alliance members have been testing the Star...
Safer school zone launched at Rodrigo Lara School, Bogota
The Secretary of Mobility Juan Pablo Bocarejo has today launched the new safe school zone at Rodrigo Lara School in Bogota, built on the back of a Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) assessment and recommendation. In a project partnership between the Secretariat of...