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NTUA within the framework of the Fifth UN Global Road Safety Week organized a Scientific Workshop titled “Digitalisation and Road Safety Research” which took place with great success on 17 May 2019 in Athens. This Workshop attempted to shed light into the role and the challenges of digitalisation on road safety,
through an intensive flow of state-of-the-art presentations of key NTUA
road safety research projects and a vivid Expert Panel discussion on
new perspectives and horizons of road safety in the digital era in
Europe and worldwide.  
All twenty (20) presentations of the workshop are available here.
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Latest Developments
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The International Transport Forum ( ITF/OECD)
published recently a new Report: “New Directions for Data-Driven
Transport Safety”, with the active contribution of NTUA. This Report
explores how seamless data collection, analysis and sharing can unlock
innovations in transport safety. Very often most interventions to
improve transport safety are reactions to incidents. However lately,
connected vehicles, smartphone apps, ubiquitous sensors, data sharing
and machine learning make proactive transport safety interventions
possible and prevent crashes before they happen. Drawing on the Safe
System approach, this Report examines how transport stakeholders can make better decisions by using more relevant and timely new safety data.  
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The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) has published the 37th PIN Flash Report “ How to improve urban road safety in the EU“, with the active
contribution of NTUA. This Report analyses the latest data urban road
safety across the EU and other countries that form part of the ETSC Road
Safety Performance Index (PIN) programme, and it conclude with more
than twenty main recommendations for action at EU. It is highlighted that the problems can be addressed with the right political leadership, resources and energy.
But while the EU, national governments and other actors can help
provide the knowledge, finance and guidelines to implement the necessary
changes, it will often be up to local authorities to implement them
effectively. 
A comprehensive infographic depicts current urban road safety in Europe, with Pedestrians, Motorcyclists and Cyclists accounting for 70% of all urban road fatalities. 
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Make Roads Safe Hellas in collaboration with the National Technical University of Athens, the University of Macedonia, the University of the Aegean, the Hellenic Open University and EASST,
released a report titled: “International Tourism and Road Safety in
Greece, Country Report 2019”. Make Roads Safe Hellas is a Non-Profit
Organisation promoting road safety in Greece which hopes to gain
momentum from their study and build support for the establishment of
a Safe Tourism Network to ensure that road safety for tourists and travellers is given adequate attention, not just in Greece but across the globe.
The Report is based on a survey of almost 1,500 international tourists
visiting Athens, Chania, and Thessaloniki in 2018, as well on recent
accident statistics from ELSTAT. 
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Our Publications
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The 15th World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR) which was organized by the WCTRS and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) took
place with great success on 26-31 May, 2019 at Mumbai, India. For the
last 40 years, WCTR has been organised every three years by the WCTR
Society. WCTR allowed sharing cutting-edge research and advanced state-of-practice and provided a
unique opportunity for experts to exchange ideas in all areas of
transport research including Traffic Safety Analysis and Policy (C4 Special Interest Group). 
All nine (9) NTUA presentations are available here.
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NTUA Professor George Yannis was recently awarded the prestigious Francqui Chair 2019, as proposed by Hasselt University. The Francqui Chair is awarded every year by the Francqui Foundation to eminent academics which are promoting the development of higher education and scientific research in Belgium.  
All four (4) lectures are available here.
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A Diploma Thesis titled “ Spatial analysis of driver safety behavior using data from smartphones”
was recently presented by Ilias Parmaksizoglou. Smartphone driver
behaviour data were processed in a GIS computer environment, resulting
to the development of new tables describing the phenomena observed on
the map of a major road axis in Athens, in nodes and links. Analytic
maps were developed aiming to indicate patterns of the accumulation and
ranking of the harsh events in the selected road axis. Finally, four
linear regression models were developed, which demonstrated speed as the most statistically significant factor in predicting harsh events per day on a region basis.  
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Events
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The ESRA consortium will host the 2nd ESRA Symposium on Global Road Safety Performance Indicators, which will take place in Brussels, on 18 June 2019.
New results from the ESRA2 data, collected at the end of 2018, will be
showcased. Presentations will focus on key results of global road safety
performance indicators (i.e. release of 32 country fact sheets and
thematic reports on speeding, mobile phone use, and fatigue). The
symposium is sponsored by the Forum of European Road Safety Institutes (FERSI). 
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The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) is organizing the REVIVE Conference which will take place in Brussels, on 18 June 2019. This
conference will bring together road safety practitioners and
legislators, and those working in the fire and rescue and emergency
medical systems. It will provide an opportunity to learn more about the
work of the REVIVE project and to discuss good practice in the emergency
response across Europe. The aim of the REVIVE project is to map
Emergency Medical Service (EMS) and Rescue and Fire Service (RFS)
practices in the EU28 and raise the profile of both EMS and RFS on the
national and European political agendas. 
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The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) is organising the 13th Annual Road Safety Performance Index (PIN) Conference which will take place on 19 June 2019 in Brussels.
During this Conference the latest road safety figures will be presented
and actions needed to accelerate road safety progress will be
identified. A high level representative on behalf of their country will
receive the PIN award for achievements in road safety. The PIN
conference will be attended by national road safety experts, high level
officials and decision makers from across Europe and will provide an
opportunity to discuss ways in which road safety in the EU can be
further improved. 
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Vlaamse Stichting Verkeerskunde ( VSV) in cooperation with Flanders, Road Safety GB, UHasselt, ETSC and Polis are organising a European Road Safety Summer School which will take place in Mechelen, Belgium, on 26-30 August 2019,
targeting road safety professionals. The schedule of the Summer School
for these 5 days includes key topics on: a) road safety vision and
strategy, b) education, awareness raising and infrastructure, c)
technologies, enforcement and integrated policy, d) technical site
visits. 
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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):   
- 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
- 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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The next edition of the Transport Research Arena Conference (TRA 2020) organised by the European Commisison and the European transport research platforms ( ACARE, ALICE, CEDR, ECTP, ERRAC, ERTRAC, ETRA, Waterborne), will take place in Helsinki, Finland from 26-30th April 2020, themed “Rethinking transport – towards clean and inclusive mobility”.
Since 2006, TRA is the major European bi-annual transport research
event bringing together experts, authorities, industry and all
stakeholders to discuss on the newest innovations and the future of
mobility and transport and to foster a Europe-wide transformation in all
transport modes. 
- Submissions for the Journal Track (full papers) until the 16th of June
- Submissions for the Conference track (short papers) until the 30th of June
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