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NTUA Road Safety Research is ranked 2nd in Europe and 6th worldwide according to a recent study titled: “ Visualization and analysis of mapping knowledge domain of road safety studies“, published at the leading safety Scientific Journal Accident Analysis and Prevention. Moreover, NTUA Prof. George Yannis appears to be among the most productive scientific authors worldwide
in the field of road safety. This ranking is based on a systematic
analysis of all road safety studies published on Science Citation Index
Expanded (SCIE) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) between 2000
and 2018, containing several interesting performance indicators on road
safety research worldwide (topics, trends, papers, journals,
universities).  
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The infographic of the 2018 NTUA Road Safety Observatory ( www.nrso.ntua.gr) activities, highlights one more very intensive year, striving with highly scientific expertise to improve road safety in Greece, in Europe and worldwide. The nrso people
with excellent dedication, efficiency and expertise were active in 22
innovative research projects, succeeded to publish 67 scientific papers
(21 in peer reviewed journals), reached almost 100.000 nrso website page-views, handled more than 115.000 emails and run more than 4.800 km!
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Latest Developments
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The World Health Organization ( WHO) has published the 10 key facts on global road safety as derived from the recent Global health estimates and the
Global status report on road safety, published in 2018. The first fact is that “Road traffic injuries are a global public health problem“.
To reduce the number of road traffic deaths and injuries, a holistic
framework such as the Safe System Approach needs to be adopted to ensure
a safe transport system for all road users. 
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The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) has published a Report titled “The Status of Traffic Safety and Mobility Education in Europe” with the active contribution of NTUA.
Even though the overwhelming majority of European countries consider
education as an essential part of the integrated approach to traffic
safety, this first overview of traffic safety and mobility education in
Europe demonstrates that in practice road safety education in schools at all levels is not sufficient. Only in the Czech Republic, Ireland and Germany is road safety education provided at all levels.
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Statistics Corner
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The World Health Organisation ( WHO) published an Interactive Map on Global Road Safety, based on the recently published Global Status Report on Road Safety 2018.
This Interactive Map is a highly useful tool allowing to visualize a
wealth of information and several road safety parameters per country as
well as to highlight the shocking fact that every 23 seconds a road user looses their life.
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Basic characteristics of
road fatalities in Greece for the period 1991-2017 are summarised in a
comprehensive Table prepared by the NTUA Road Safety Observatory (data source: ELSTAT). Since 2007, there are approximately 900 less road fatalities per year in Greece. According to these time series data a spectacular decrease in road fatalities for children 0-14 years old (-71%), young drivers (-61%) and on motorways (-61%) is
observed during the last decade. On the contrary, fatalities decrease
during the last decade is quite limited for moped riders (-26%), older
drivers (-28%) and at rural (36%) and urban (37%) junctions.
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Our Publications
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The Transportation Research Board (TRB) 98th Annual Meeting was
held with great success in Washington, D.C., on 13-17 January 2019. The
meeting program covered all transportation modes, with more than 5,000
presentations in nearly 800 sessions and workshops, addressing topics of
interest to policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers,
and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions. A
number of sessions and workshops focused on the spotlight theme for the
2019 meeting: Transportation for a Smart, Sustainable, and Equitable Future.
NTUA actively contributed with 6 innovative presentations: Read the whole article...
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Within the framework of the Horizons 2020 project SaferAfrica (African-European
Dialogue Platform on Road Safety) a webinar titled “Road Safety Data in
Africa” was successfully organised with the active contribution of NTUA,
on December 20th, 2018. This webinar addressed key findings from a
review on road safety data collection systems and definitions in African
countries, together with the respective recommendations and guidelines
for a minimum set of harmonised data collection procedures and standard
definitions. In addition, the results of the analysis of key road safety data and risk factors in Africa were highlighted.
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A Diploma Thesis titled “ Comparative investigation of road accidents cost in the European Union”
was presented by Ypatia Mihou-Archimandritou in July 2018. For this
analysis, social, economic and transport indicators from various
international sources were exploited and a common database was
developed, containing data about the rate of passenger cars use, GDP per
capita, population, road accidents fatalities, suicides, number of
passenger cars, Misery Index and other for the year 2015. The results
led to a conclusion that an increase of the rate of passenger cars use
leads to a decrease of the accident cost, while an increase of Misery Index leads to an increase of the accident cost. Furthermore, in economically strong countries higher accident cost is observed in comparison to the other two groups. 
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Events
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The Road Safety Institute ‘Panos Mylonas’ with the support of the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) produced and implemented two video campaigns focusing on driver distraction due to mobile phone use:  and one video campaign focusing on the importance of seat-belt especially at the back-seat, titled: “ Seat-belt – The belt which “ties” us with life“: . The objective is to highlight these very crucial road safety risk factors and promote these campaigns through social media.
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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.
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