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Latest Developments
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The European Council
reached a provisional agreement with the European Parliament on a
proposal to strengthen road infrastructure management to reduce road
fatalities and serious injuries. The reform will extend the scope of the
current rules to motorways and other primary roads beyond the
trans-European transport network (TEN-T). Furthermore, it introduces a network-wide road safety assessment,
which is a snapshot of the entire road network covered by the Directive
used to evaluate accident risk and the Authorities will use the
findings to carry out more targeted road safety inspections or take
direct remedial action. It will become mandatory to take systematic
account of pedestrians, cyclists and other vulnerable road users in road
safety management procedures.  The draft directive amending directive on road infrastructure safety management is available: 
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The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) has published the 36th PIN Flash Report “ Reducing Speeding in Europe“, with the active contribution of NTUA.
The EU has the exclusive authority to set minimum safety standards for
all new vehicles sold on the EU market. One of the main goals of this
PIN Flash Report is to highlight the proposed standards which include
mandatory fitment of overridable Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) on all cars,
vans, buses and heavy goods vehicles. Research shows that this single
technology could help to achieve a high level of compliance with speed
limits and eventually cut road deaths by 20%.
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The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) has published a report titled “7 SMART Ways of tackling Drink-Driving in Europe”. The report aims to present the wide-ranging approaches used to tackle drink driving in Europe,
including legislation (BAC limits, rehabilitation programmes for drink
driving offenders), enforcement, technology (alcohol interlocks)
campaigns and education.
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The Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF), launched the GRSF 2018 Annual Report, highlighting its excellent record of delivery and long term funding for road safety. GRSF is a global partnership program administered by the World Bank,
which was established in 2006 with a mission to help address the
growing crisis of road traffic deaths and injuries in low and
middle-income countries (LMICs).
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Statistics Corner
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Road fatalities in Greece in 2018 presented, for second year in a row, a significant decrease (5.6%) compared to 2017 figures, according to recently published ELSTAT
data. This significant decrease could be attributed not only to the
fact that Greece is still under the effect of the economic crisis but
also due to the fact that over the past two years, more than 500 km of
new or upgraded motorways have replaced national roads with high road
fatalities rates.
During the last decade, Greece presents the most impressive road safety improvement in the European Union,
with a decrease of road fatalities of 56% and a decrease of serious
injuries of 60%. The rate fatalities per million vehicles has decreased
by 59% since 2008.
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Our Publications
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Prof. George Yannis made a presentation about “ Open Science in Transport” at the kick-off meeting of the BeOpen, Horizon 2020 project, which took place in Brussels in 14 February 2019.  BeOpen aims to create a common understanding on the practical impact of Open Science
and to identify and put in place the mechanisms to make it a reality in
transport research. Road Safety constitutes a major component of this
Open Science in Transport initiative.
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The International Neuropsychological Society organised
the 47th Annual Meeting which took place with great success in New York
from February 20-23, 2019. The topics of the Meeting included clinical
neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience, and neuropsychiatry
and internationally renowned, innovative, and pioneering scientists and
clinicians from multiple disciplines gave very interesting
presentations. NTUA actively contributed with the following interdisciplinary presentation merging two scientific domains – neuroscience and road safety:
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A Diploma Thesis titled “ Modelling the economic impact of road accidents in Greece” was presented by Eleftherios-Marios Kourtis in July 2018. The objective of this Diploma Thesis is the estimation of the human cost of road accidents based on the “Willingness-to-Pay” (WTP) methodology,
and the identification of drivers attitudes towards the probability of
getting involved in a road accident, using the “Stated Preference”
method. The results demonstrate a positive correlation between the
number of road accidents that a driver was involved so far and the
annual amount that is willing to invest. Furthermore, based on the WTP
methodology, the road accident fatality human cost in Greece was
estimated at 1.761 million euros.
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Events
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The FEHRL Infrastructure Research Meeting 2019 (FIRM19) will take place on 26-28 March 2019 in Brussels,
Belgium. The theme is “On-Ramp to innovation: Let’s co-create together
our future transport infrastructure“ and it coincides with the
celebration of the 30 th anniversary of FEHRL. The main stakeholders ( EC, CEDR, PIARC, ERTRAC, ECTP) are expected to outline the vision for the future cross-modal transport infrastructure and its implementation plan.
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The Focus Area Mobility & Transportation Systems of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are organising the International Scientific Conference on Mobility and Transport ( mobil.TUM 2019) which will take place on 11-12 September 2019, in Munich,
Germany. The theme of the conference is Transportation Systems of the
Future. Road safety will be 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.
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The 2019 Polis Conference will take place on 27 and 28 November 2019, in Brussels, Belgium, organised by POLIS, the European Cities Network, celebrating the network’s 30 th anniversary.
The conference will provide an opportunity for cities, metropolitan
areas and regions to showcase their transport achievements to a large
audience, and for the wider transport community to engage with
representatives of local and regional authorities on innovative
transport solutions.
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TRAVisions concerns two competitions for transport research awards to be announced in a prestigious award ceremony at the Transport Research Arena Conference on 27-30th April 2020 in Helsinki (abstract submission deadline: 30/06/2019): 
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TRAVisions 2020 Young Researcher Competition, an
academic student competition with the goal of stimulating the interest
among young researchers and students in the field of sustainable surface
transport
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TRAVisions 2020 Senior Researcher Competition, a
competition for senior researchers in the field of innovative surface
transport concepts based on results only from EU-funded projects
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