The new website of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of the School of Civil Engineering of
the National Technical University of Athens is now up and running at: www.transport.ntua.gr
The education and research
activities of the Department since its establishment in 1982 are
highlighted, together with all the latest news. Road
safety was and still constitutes a major scientific discipline within
the activities of the Department.
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The PRACT Repository is a new online road safety tool containing the most recent Accident Prediction Models and Crash Modification Factors, highlighting effectiveness of road
safety measures worldwide, for use by road safety decision makers and practitioners worldwide.
This Repository has been developed within the framework of the project PRACT,
(Predicting Road ACcidents-a Transferable methodology across Europe) carried out by the University of Florence, the National Technical University of Athens, the Technical University of Berlin and the Imperial College London, commissioned by the Conference of European Directors of Roads.
The basic assumption on
which the PRACT Repository is built is that Accident Prediction Models
(APM) and Crash Modification Factors (CMF)
can be transferred to conditions different from the ones for which they have been developed, if selected based on scientifically
valid criteria and adapted to local conditions based on historical crash data.
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In conjunction with World Day for Safety and Health at Work on April 28, Together for Safer Roads
(TSR), the Coalition of global private sector companies, released the Advancing Road Safety Best Practices
for Companies and Their Fleets report.
The Report outlines
practices that companies can use to keep employees, partners, and
contractors safe on the world’s roads, as well as
minimize costs. Globally, between 25 and 33 percent of road crashes are
work-related and 36 percent of occupational deaths are due to crashes.
While
these are sobering and devastating human costs, there are also great
financial costs. Worldwide, employers incur costs of USD $518 billion
per year
due to road traffic collisions.
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UN Resolution to
improve global road safety 2016
The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution which
represents the strongest ever commitment on road safety made by UN
Member States. It invites Member States that
have not already done so to consider adopting policies and measures to
implement United Nations vehicle safety regulations or equivalent
national
standards to ensure that all new motor vehicles, meet applicable minimum regulations for occupant and other
road users protection,
with seat belts, air bags and active safety systems fitted as standard.
The
resolution builds upon the 'Brasilia Declaration' passed by the 2nd
Global High Level Conference on Road Safety held on 18th -19th November
2015 in
Brasilia and endorses the standard fitment of active safety systems
which are the primary focus of the Stop the Crash Partnership.
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A report on Prioritising the Safety Potential of Automated Driving in Europe is now released by the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC). Automated driving technologies are already preventing collisions and deaths on
our roads. The purpose of the report is to give an overview of
automated driving, identify the main safety benefits and offer some key
recommendations for the near future for the EU and its Member States to
create a regulatory environment that prioritises safety.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) released the Road Safety Country Profiles
2015. In these Country Profiles, summary road safety data and information is provided for each of the 182
WHO countries, concering the institutional framework, the safer roads and mobility, the safer vehicles, the
safer road users, the basic road safety data and the post-crash care.
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The conference Road Safety on Five Continents (RS5C) took place in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil, on 17-19 May 2016. The RS5C is one of the premier and most prestigious international
conferences in the road safety area and is organised by VTI in close cooperation with the Brazilian National Association for Transportation Research and Education (ANPET) and in
association with Transportation Research Board
(TRB), Forum of European Road
Safety Research Institutes (FERSI) and European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI).
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The international conference on the reliability of statistics & databases in measuring road safety performance
index (PIN), took place with great success on 6-7 May 2016, in Tunis. This international conference was organised by the Prevention Routiere Internationale (PRI), the Association Tunisienne de la Protection des Accidents de la Route (ATPR) and the Arab Road Safety Association. Several road safety experts and stakeholders from Africa and Europe discussed the
current and future challenges in road safety performance monitoring.
NTUA presentation concerned: 'Monitoring Road Safety Policies and Performance'
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