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Commissioner for Transport, Violeta Bulc stated
that the European Commission has put forward initiatives addressing the
challenges of today and paving the way for the mobility of tomorrow;
today’s measures constitute a final and important push so that Europeans
can benefit from safe, clean and smart transport.
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The International Transport Forum‘s 2018 Summit
on “Transport Safety and Security” took place with great success on 23 –
25 May 2018 in Leipzig, Germany, with the participation of more than
1.500 key road safety officials, stakeholders and experts. The 2018
edition of this vibrant global conference addressed strategic and topical transport safety issues,
including: Cycling, Pedestrians, Urban Space and Health, Planning and
Design, Road Infrastructure Safety Management, Measures Assessment, Zero
Road Deaths and Serious Injuries, Safe Travel for Women.  In parallel, the ITF, together with ECTRI, ERTRAC, FERSI, TRB and WCTRS, organised the “Transport Safety and Security” Research Day. A new Ministerial Declaration on Transport Safety and Security was agreed by the ITF Member States.  NTUA Professor George Yannis made a key presentation:
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Latest Developments
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The United Nations have recently launched the UN Road Safety Trust Fund, aiming to accelerate progress in improving global road safety by bridging the gaps in the mobilization of resources
for effective action at all levels. The Fund is expected to mobilize
resources from governments, intergovernmental or non-governmental
organizations, the private sector, philanthropic organizations and
individuals. UNECE estimates
that every $1,500 contributed to the Road Safety Trust Fund could: save
one life, prevent ten serious injuries, and leverage $51,000 in road
safety investment.
Jean Todt,
United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety,
stated that the UN Road Safety Trust Fund has the potential to galvanize our global efforts
to address the road safety situation, building on the progress made and
experience gained over the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020.
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The International Road Traffic and Accident Group ( IRTAD) of the International Transport Forum ( ITF/OECD)
published recently a new Report: “Safer Roads with Automated
Vehicles?”. This report examines how increasing automation of cars and
trucks could affect road safety, and which security vulnerabilities will
need to be addressed with the rise of self-driving vehicles. It
introduces the principles of Safe System approach and the relevance of Vision Zero for road safety to the wider discussion on vehicle automation. |
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European Commission ( DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion)
released a very interesting guide containing good practices for
managing work related vehicle risks in the EU, with a specific focus on
workplace transport, driving for work and working on or near a
road. With this interactive e-guide many good practices are provided as
well as an overview of relevant regulations and information in three key
aspects of vehicle risks: safe driving for work, workplace transport safety, and working on or near a road. |
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A new book titled: “Safe Mobility: Challenges, Methodology and Solutions (Transport and Sustainability)” by Dominique Lord and Simon Washington is just published as Volume 11 in the series Transport and Sustainability. Safe mobility is clearly linked to transport sustainability,
as fatalities and injuries resulting from people engaged with transport
networks increasingly becomes a public health concern, relative to
other health threats. This volume presents the current state of the
knowledge across a multitude of analytical and context specific
transport safety areas with final aim to make further gains in road
safety globally. It includes a comprehensive set of chapters authored by
many of the world’s leading experts in both behavioural and engineering
aspects of safe mobility.
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Statistics Corner
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The International Road Traffic and Accident Database (IRTAD) of the International Transport Forum (ITF/OECD) published the summary version of the Annual Report 2018, which provides an overview of road safety performance for 32 countries.
The report outlines the most recent road safety developments across
IRTAD countries and provides comparative data for the main road safety
indicators also detailed by road user, age group and type of road.
Furthermore, the IRTAD Annual Report contains syntheses of the the road
safety strategies and targets in place as well on recent trends in
speeding, drink-driving and other aspects of road user behaviour.
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Since 53 years, the International Road Federation (IRF) World Road Statistics (WRS) continue
to be the major comprehensive, universal source of statistical data on
road networks, traffic and inland transport. Over the past years, the
WRS have proved to be an invaluable and internationally accepted
reference tool for governments, NGOs, investments banks, research
institutes and anyone analyzing and reporting trends in key subject
areas like traffic volumes and vehicle usage, road expenditure, road
safety, energy consumption and emissions. This year, the WRS 2017 (data 2010-2015) features more than 205 countries, with data on over 45 road related topics, presented in nine substantive sections, with the active contribution of NTUA for the Greek data. 
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Our Publications
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The Nordic Traffic Safety Academy (NTSA) organised
the 7th Annual Scientific Seminar of the Nordic Traffic Safety Academy
which took place with great success in Trondheim, on 7-8 May 2018. NTSA
is a Nordic forum where academics meet to exchange information and
experience in research and education. The aims of the NTSA are to
promote scientific discussion within the road traffic safety society on a
multidisciplinary base and to enhance the scientific aspect and status of road traffic safety as an academic discipline”. NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:
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A Regional Workshop on Road Safety Data organized by the EuroMed Transport Support Project,
took place with great success on 8-10 May 2018 in Athens. This Workshop
allowed sharing national, European and international experiences and
best practices in the Mediterranean Region with road safety data and
suggested a road map for the follow up actions. NTUA actively contributed with five (5) presentations: More...
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A Diploma Thesis titled “ Analysis of the impact of autonomous vehicles to travel behaviour”
was presented by Panagiotis Papalymperis in March 2018, aiming to
analyse the effect of autonomous vehicles on the mobility behaviour as
well as to identify the main characteristics that affect this behaviour.
For this purpose, data collected from 235 travelers who participated in
a stated-preference survey with a questionnaire were analyzed. Through
the multinomial and binary regression models developed it appears
that time is the parameter with the highest effect on the choice of the
mode of transport. Furthermore, respondents expressed an overall
positive attitude towards autonomous vehicles, however they were
concerned about sharing the vehicle with unknown people, preferring to
be alone in an autonomous vehicle 
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A paper titled “ Impact of real-time traffic characteristics on crash occurrence: The case of rare events” authored by Athanasios Theofilatos, George Yannis, Pantelis Kopelias and Fanis Papadimitriou
is now published in Accident Analysis and Prevention Journal. This
paper investigates crash likelihood by utilizing real-time traffic data
from three random loop detectors in the Attica Tollway located in
Greater Athens Area in Greece and by proposing a framework driven by
appropriate statistical models (Bias Correction and Firth method) in
order to overcome the problems that arise when the number of crashes is
very low. Under this approach instead of using traditional logistic
regression methods, crashes are considered as rare events. The method
and findings of the study provide insights on the mechanism of crash
occurrence and also revealed that lower speeds are more likely to result in accident. 
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Point of View
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Autonomous vehicles are bringing a very different new reality in road traffic. However, human factors will remain present both in the near future and in the long term, because of the:
- mixed
traffic of autonomous and non-autonomous vehicles during the long
transition phases (different at the different places of the world),
- the interaction with not easily automatable traffic of pedestrians, cyclists and power two-wheelers,
- the vehicles with dual control (human and autonomous),
- human
factors of the scientists developing and programming the autonomous
vehicles and the autonomous transport systems (infrastructure, traffic,
etc.).
More...
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Upcoming Events
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The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) is
organizing the 2018 PIN Conference which will take place in Brussels on
18 June, 2018 in Brussels. At the 2018 PIN conference, ETSC will launch
its Road Safety Performance Index (PIN) Annual Report. The latest road
safety figures will be presented and actions needed to accelerate road
safety progress will be identified. This year, child road safety and
data collection topics will be highlighted. The event will also feature a
high-level panel debate “the European Road Safety Strategy 2020-30”.
Click here to download the agenda.
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SWOV
is organizing the 6th HUMANIST Conference which will be host on 13-14
June 2018 in the Hague, The Netherlands. The theme of the conference is “ Towards Vehicle Automation – Human Factors Challenges“.
The scope of the conference covers a wide range of topics on Human
Factors in Transport. The 2018 conference has a special focus on the
Human Factors issues related to transition towards self-driving
vehicles. Topics for this year’s symposium include, but are not limited
to: Automated Driving and ADAS, Human Machine Interaction, Transition of
Control, Driver state, Driver workload and task demand, Interaction of
(partly) automated vehicles with vulnerable road users, Human factors in
mixed traffic conditions, Older drivers / novice drivers, Naturalistic
Driving studies, and Eco-driving.
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