RoadSafe News - May 2019

Decade of Action
Prince Michael backs Global Road Safety Week Looking forward to Global Road Safety Week our royal patron HRH Prince Michael of Kent has made a new film which draws together his thoughts on the week.  Read more...
Leaders Call for action during UN Global Road Safety Week 5th Global Road Safety Week:''Leadership for road safety''.  Read more...
Awards
Prince Michael International Awards - Nominations Nominations are now open.  Read more...
Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV)
Autonomous Vehicle Symposium The Autonomous vehicle Symposium will be held between the 21st and the 23rd May in Messe Stuttgart, Germany.  Read more...
Seizing the self-driving vehicle opportunity Self-driving vehicles are poised to trigger huge social, industrial and economic benefits.  Read more...
Driving at work
Coaching your drivers On May 8th, Rose van Steijn, Fleet Forums' Development Director will dig into the concept of coaching as a management tool and why every fleet manager should make time for it.  Read more...
Private and public sector urged to do more Road safety is not just a matter for government and the public sector. Is it an issue that requires support from the private sector, and that means businesses making sure they are compliant with current legislation.’  Read more...
International news
Road Safety in European Cities: Performance Indicators and Governance Solutions Road Safety in European Cities:Performance Indicators and Governance Solutions. This report benchmarks road safety performance for 72 urban areas, mostly in Europe, and illustrates governance solutions to improve urban road safety with case studies conducted in Lisbon (Portugal) and Riga (Latvia).  Read more...
Report from the UN Road Safety Collaboration and NGO Alliance meetings Recently, two parallel meetings were held in Chania, Crete. The Sixth Global meeting of the NGO Alliance and the 27th Meeting of the UN Road Safety Collaboration. RoadSafe was a founder member of the alliance which now represents 220 NGOs from 90 countries.  Read more...
#50by30: A New Target for a Decade of SDG Action for Road Safety The current United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety, despite growth in population and motorisation, has helped slow the increase in road deaths. But in far too many countries the number of people dying or seriously injured in traffic crashes is rising rather than falling.   Read more...
International Course on Road Safety Management IRF (Geneva) together with the Qatar Transportation & Traffic Safety Center and Qatar University are pleased to present the International Course on Road Safety Management to be held from 19th to 21st November 2019 in Doha, Qatar.  Read more...
Europe on the Move Europe on the Move: Commission completes its agenda for safe, clean and connected mobility  Read more...
Safer vehicles
Seat Belt Interventions in the News A new report by Direct Line and The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS) The Forgotten Road Safety Priority. ETSC reports that The EU has formally agreed updated UNECE regulations on seatbelts that will require seatbelt reminder systems in all front and rear seats on new cars from September 2019.  Read more...
European Parliament backs new vehicle safety standards The European Parliament has given the green light to new minimum EU vehicle safety requirements that will come into force from 2022.  Read more...
Smashed car becomes a key attraction in South Australian new car showroom South Australian new car dealership, CMI Toyota, is the latest to take delivery of a crashed car for display within its prominent West Terrace showroom.  Read more...
Safer drivers
DriverMetrics® guide to maximising the safety benefits of telematics DriverMetrics® new guide to maximising the safety benefits of telematics is available free of charge on its website.  Read more...
Community safety
Amend is awarded the First-Ever WRI Ross Prize for Cities Amend's School Area Road Safety Assessments and Improvements (SARSAI) programme has won the inaugural World Resources Institute (WRI) Ross Prize for Cities, a $250,000 award focusing on urban transformation.  Read more...