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At the end of another year full of scientific excellence and innovation and great achievements, like the new breakthrough Road Safety Decision Support Systems: SafetyCube, SafeFITS, AfricaRSO, we persist with creativity and passion for a brighter, more automated and safer traffic future everywhere and for all.
We thank you all for the excellent cooperation and we are sending you our very best wishes for joyful Christmas holidays and a lucky and fruitful new year 2019, plenty of personal and professional achievements. 
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Latest Developments
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The Global Status Report on Road safety 2018 has been published by World Health Organisation ( WHO) with the active contribution of NTUA, in December 2018, highlighting insufficient progress as the number of annual road traffic deaths has reached 1.35 million.
Road traffic injuries are now the leading killer of people aged 5-29
years. The report suggests that the price paid for mobility is too high,
especially because proven measures exist. These include strategies to
address speed and drinking and driving, among other behaviours; safer
infrastructure like dedicated lanes for cyclists and motorcyclists;
improved vehicle standards such as those that mandate electronic
stability control; and enhanced post-crash care. Drastic action is
needed to put these measures in place to meet any future global target
that might be set and save lives. 
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Infographic – Road traffic injuries; the facts
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Data visualization – Death on the roads
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Press release
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The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) has
published a briefing synthesis titled “EU Strategy for Automated
Mobility”. ETSC warmly welcomes and fully agree with the Commission’s
acknowledgement that when it comes to automated mobility, “ only the highest safety and security standards will suffice”.
This must remain the guiding principle in the years to come. Automated
driving has the potential to significantly improve road safety. However,
recent collisions involving vehicles with automated technology on board
demonstrate that automated driving may also pose new risks to road
safety, and that the technology is not yet mature.
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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 full version of the Road Safety Annual Report 2018, which provides a detailed insight of road safety performance for 28 countries.
The Annual 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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Our Publications
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A paper titled “ Road
safety behavior of drivers with neurological diseases affecting
cognitive functions: an interdisciplinary Structural Equation Model
analysis approach” authored by Dimosthenis Pavlou and George Yannis is
now published in Advances in Transportation Studies. This research
suggests the evaluation of driving behavior by using multiple driving
indexes in a combined integrated manner, through a large-scale driving
simulator experiment, comprising medical/neurological and
neuropsychological assessments of 225 active drivers, and a set of
driving tasks for different traffic volumes, different driving
environments, including in-vehicle distraction conditions. The
statistical analysis methodology developed and implemented was based on
Principal Component Analysis and Structural Equation Models (SEMs). SEM
results indicated that the impact of neurological diseases affecting
cognitive functions is significantly detrimental on the latent
variables “driving performance” and on the observed variables “reaction
time” and “accident probability”. The AD group had the worse
driving behavior profile among the examined groups with neurological
diseases affecting cognitive functions. 
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A Diploma Thesis titled “ Mobility and road safety in European cities”
was recently presented by Dimitrios Giagkou, focusing on the impact of
mobility characteristics on road safety in European cities. For this
analysis, various international databases were exploited with data on
road accident fatalities, demographics and mobility characteristics of
25 European cities in 2012. Generalized Linear Models were developed for
both the total number of fatalities and for specific subcategories too.
The results led to the conclusion that more public transport capacity offered, more cycle trips and fewer motorcycles lead to a reduction in the number of fatalities
in urban road accidents. Moreover, it was found that denser road
network, higher population density and higher GDP per capita are
correlated with fewer fatalities in urban road accidents. 
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Point of View
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The main difference between roads and the other transport modes, is that most road vehicle drivers are not professionals,
not having received heavy training and not following the very high and
strict behaviour standards of the professional drivers and pilots of all
the other transport modes. Furthermore, the road environment,
especially in urban areas, is much more complex than the railways,
waterborne and air routes. Consequently, both the problems and the
respective remedial measures for road safety present focused attention
and particularities, which usually cannot be addressed by best practice
in the other modes.
Read the whole article...
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Upcoming Events
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The Sixth Global Meeting of Nongovernmental Organizations Advocating for Road Safety and Road Victims will take place in Chania, Crete, Greece, from 8–13 April 2019.
This Global Meeting will be the biggest gathering of Road Safety NGOs
and Stakeholders in 2019 and the most important event leading up to the
end of the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011–2020. It will bring
together NGOs, global road safety Stakeholders, Funders and decision
makers and will feature training sessions, workshops, networking
opportunities, the General Assembly, and, for the first time, a
High-Level Symposium on road safety.
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The Hellenic Institute of Transportation Engineers (HITE) and the Hellenic Institute of Transport (H.I.T.) are co-organizing the 9th International Congress on Transport Research (ICTR), which will be held on 24-25 October 2019, in Athens, Greece.
The spotlight theme of the 2017 Congress is: “Transportation 4.0: The
Smart Evolution”. ICTR 2019 will host innovative research and
development work in the field of transportation systems, operations and
infrastructures, in Greece and abroad. The Congress objective is to
showcase recent top-notch research activities in transportation, merge
research findings and policy making tasks, facilitate the exchange of
knowledge in the local and international level and draw conclusions and
shape recommendations on the future of transportation.
Abstract Submission due to 15th January 2019.
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The Journal of Safety Research announced a call for papers: Special issue – Safety, human factors and technology. The objective of this Special Issue is to support the discussion on the future trends of mobility and the implications for the protection of all road users.
An important aspect is that technological developments must go hand in
hand with users’ acceptance and behavior. Therefore, we are particularly
interested in contributions addressing the following topics: The role
of human factors and technology on road safety; Interactions between
vulnerable road users and automated systems; How can road users
influence the technology advancement in transportation.
Paper submission deadline: 18 February 2019
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