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The African Road Safety Observatory
is now on line constituting a space for interaction to highlight the
road safety needs in African countries, developed with the active
contribution of NTUA. It is one of the main results of the SaferAfrica project funded by the European Commission Horizons 2020 Programme and includes various knowledge and tools,
such as statistics, reports, fact sheets, knowledge resources and links
and it is integrated with crowd-sourcing functions to facilitate the
participation of experts and end-users, through an interactive Dialogue
Platform. 
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Latest Developments
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The new Forever Open Road website has been launched by FEHRL. The vision behind the Forever Open Road programme is to focuss on the best of existing technologies
and the best of those to come. Many of the required solutions exist
already from previous research, but are not (yet) implemented to their
full potential; some innovations will be developed in the short-term,
and others at an earlier stage of development with implementation in the
longer term. Investigation on the untapped potential and the eventual
barriers to their implementation will undoubtedly offer quick wins to
the road operators.
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SafetyCube is a research project funded by the European Commission under Horizon 2020, the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, in the domain of Road Safety. The latest SafetyCube newsletter is now available, highlighting the innovative road safety Decision Support System (DSS) which
is online already one year, enabling policy-makers and stakeholders to
select and implement the most appropriate strategies, measures and
cost-effective approaches to reduce casualties of all road user types
and all severities in Europe and worldwide.
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Our Publications
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The city of Edmonton organized the 10th Annual International Conference on Urban Traffic Safety,
which took place with great success on 9-12 July, 2018 in Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada. Just as all road users feel the impact of traffic
safety, the responsibility to promote traffic safety was shared by many
disciplines. This multidisciplinary approach is more evident now than it
ever was before. When jurisdictions and agencies refer to Vision Zero Action Plans and Road Safety Strategies,
their underlying theme revolves around collaborating with all partners
whether they are engineers, enforcement officers, medical professionals,
planners, political leaders, or public health representatives.
NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:  Risks and Countermeasures for Road Traffic of the Elderly in Europe
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A Diploma Thesis titled “ Impact of economic, social and transport indicators on road safety during the crisis period in Europe”
was presented by Dimitrios Nikolaou in July 2018. For this analysis a
database containing Human Development Index (HDI), suicides,
passenger-kilometers and road fatalities for European states for
2006-2015 was developed. The results led to the conclusion that Human Development Index has the most important impact
and its increase leads to road fatalities decrease. Moreover, the
economy evolution effect on road accidents is more important than social
and transport indicators. Expecially after the economic crisis, the
impact of the economy is even higher. Concerning passenger-kilometers
there is an increase in their impact on the number of road fatalities
after the economic crisis. 
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A paper titled “ Capturing the effects of texting on young drivers behaviour based on copula and Gaussian Mixture Models” authored by Loukas Dimitriou, Katerina Stylianou, and George Yannis is now published in Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. This research effort aims to investigate the impact of texting on young drivers’ behavior and safety based on data from driving simulator experiments,
for different driving contexts, like motorways, urban and rural roads,
during daytime and night, and for alternative weather conditions (‘clear
sky’ and rain). GMMs application showed that drivers using mobile
phones who were involved in a collision presented a different driving
behavior compared to the drivers who were occupied but were not involved
in a collision. 
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Point of View
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Road safety data collection and storage are critical for a series of procedures to improve road safety. However, capturing accurate and complete road safety data is
a difficult and complex issue. The main problems faced when recording
road accidents are the unclear determination of road accident location,
insufficient or incorrect recording of information and insufficient
accident coverage. More...
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Upcoming Events
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