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The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) published the 12th edition of PIN Annual Report, with the active contribution of NTUA, presented at the 2018 PIN Conference
which took place with great success on 18 June, 2018 in Brussels.
25,250 people lost their lives on the EU roads in 2017, representing a
2% reduction on the 2016 figure. There has been progress since 2010 but
time is running out and the 2020 target is now highly unlikely to be met.
Strong political will and urgent measures are still needed in all EU
Member States to narrow the gap between the desired and the actual EU
progress. NTUA contributed actively to this ETSC PIN Annual Report. 
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Latest Developments
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The European Commission’s Directorate General for Mobility and Transport ( DG Move) published a Report on the preparatory work for an EU road safety strategy 2020-2030. This Report was prepared by Jeanne Breen assisted by SWOV and Loughborough University’s Design School.
The Commission set three objectives to be addressed: 1) assess the
outcome of the road safety policy framework to 2017; 2) consider current
and future changes in mobility and its consequences and challenges in
relation to road safety; and 3) assist in the preparation of the EU road safety framework for 2020-2030. |
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The Updated Main Report (2017 edition) of the European Survey of Road users’ safety Attitudes ( ESRA) has been published containing the results from the survey in 38 countries, including 13 Latin America countries, with
the active contribution of NTUA. The updated version of the ESRA
webpage with Deliverables and Publications includes the 2017 Main Report
in 3 languages (English, Spanish, French), six Thematic Reports on
European drivers attitudes, and the country fact sheets.
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The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) has published the 35th PIN Flash Report “ An Overview of Road Death Data Collection in the EU“, with the active contribution of NTUA.
The goal of this PIN Flash Report is to gather information on road
death data collection in different PIN countries and to find out if and
how countries cross-check or complement road death data recorded by the
police with alternative sources. This Report provides very useful
information to exchange good practice on how to improve road death data collection and recording. |
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The European Union Road Federation (ERF) and the Federation of European Motorcyclists’ Associations (FEMA)
have published a joint position paper, called ‘Improving infrastructure
safety for powered two-wheelers’. Only in 2017 power two-wheelers
fatalities (motorcycles and mopeds) counted for 17% of the total road
victims, while accounting only for 1,8% of the total traffic flow. Both
ERF and FEMA strongly believe that road safety for motorcyclists can be significantly improved by looking at the design of road infrastructure.
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Our Publications
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The Focus Area Mobility & Transportation Systems of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) organized the International Scientific Conference on Mobility and Transport ( mobil.TUM 2018)
which took place with great success on June 13th – 14th 2018, in
Munich, Germany. The theme of the conference was Urban Mobility –
Shaping the Future Together. Road safety was one of the key discussion
areas enabling inspiration from the latest innovations and exploring new directions for shaping the future of urban mobility and safety. NTUA actively contributed with the following presentations:
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The Annual European Safety and Reliability Conference ESREL 2018 is an international conference under the auspices of the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA), which took place with great success on 17-21 June 2018 in the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU,
Trondheim, Norway. The topic for ESREL 2018 was “Safe Societies in a
Changing World” and the goal of the conference was to advance in the understanding, modeling, and management of the complexity of the risk, safety and reliability fields characterizing our world, now and in the future. NTUA actively contributed with the following presentations:
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The Road Safety Institute Panos Mylonas together with the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) and the support of the Brewers of Europe, organised an international conference on tackling drink-driving as part of the SMART
(Sober Mobility Across Road Transport) project which took place with
great success in Athens, Greece, on 21 June 2018. The debate addressed policy and practice on enforcement, penalties, rehabilitation, alcohol interlocks
and other measures to discourage and prevent drink driving, with focus
on improved driver behaviour and safety performance in Greece.  NTUA presentation concerned: Drinking and driving in Greece 
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A Diploma Thesis titled “ Investigation
of the impact of weather conditions to young drivers’ behavior and
safety in cities with the use of driving simulator” was presented by
Maria Chaireti in November 2017. In order to achieve this objective, an
experimental process on a driving simulator was carried out and
regression models were developed to investigate the impact of weather
conditions on the mean speed, the lateral position of the vehicle from
the right borderline and the accident probability. The models’
application indicated that driving in the rain contributes to a small reduction in speed, but also to a significant increase in the probability of an accident.
When driving in fog, drivers seem to be more cautious, as the lateral
position of the vehicle from the right borderlines reduced and the
probability of an accident decreased.
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A paper titled “ Public opinion on Usage-Based Motor Insurance Schemes: a stated preference approach” authored by Dimitris Tselentis, Akis Theofilatos, George Yannis and Manos Konstantinopoulos
is now published in Travel Behaviour and Society scientific Journal.
This paper aims to investigate which parameters affect users’
willingness to pay for alternative usage-based motor insurance pricing
schemes such as Pay-as-you-drive (PAYD) and Pay-as-how-you-drive (PHYD).
Results indicated that women and smartphone owners are more likely to
choose a new insurance schemes. Kilometers and cost reduction were also
found to affect similarly the choice for both Usage-Based-Motor
Insurance (UBI). Moreover, the higher the speed reduction imposed to the driver, the lower the probability of the UBI scheme to choose it. 
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Point of View
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Today the driver makes choices, tomorrow the choices will be made by the autonomous vehicles,
by the autonomous traffic and by the people managing them. So there is
need to “train” the vehicles, the traffic and the people managing them
on how to handle a number of fundamental choices.
Firstly, a number of real time operational safety choices of the
autonomous vehicles pertain. When a collision is unavoidable, what the autonomous vehicles should choose to hit: the tree/obstacle, another vehicle, a pedestrian or
continue exploring avoidance of collision? Furthermore, in a conflict
of two autonomous vehicles (connected or not) how their decisions should
be coordinated for their safety and the safety of the other road users?
These driver choices are taken also today without autonomous traffic,
but nobody can keep real-time record of the driver risk perception and
decisions, whereas the autonomous vehicles will allow for detailed
monitoring of any choice and the programming behind it.
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Upcoming Events
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The final event of the three Horizon 2020 projects InDeV, PROSPECT and XCYCLE will take place on October 12th 2018 at Applus+ IDIADA,
70 km south of the city of Barcelona. At this one-day event, results of
these three projects on traffic safety analysis and integrated approach
towards better protection of vulnerable road users will be presented.
Participants will also have the opportunity to see live demonstrations
that will be performed. Registration is now open: www.indev-project.eu; www.prospect-project.eu; www.xcycle-h2020.eu
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