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Awards
Prince Michael International Awards - Nominations Nominations close next month  Read more...
Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV)
London boroughs host data gathering exercise for automated vehicles A UK company has started data gathering in two London boroughs as part of plans to trial a shared driverless passenger service in the Capital next year.  Read more...
IIHS: New studies highlight driver confusion about automated systems Vehicles are getting increasingly sophisticated, with more and more of them able to stay in a lane and maintain a set speed and following distance with minimal driver input.  Read more...
Intelligent Parking: A Tale of Five Cities Today, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities. By 2050, the UN projects that figure will increase to about 70%.   Read more...
Top 10 jobs the UK needs for the self-driving vehicle revolution Groundbreaking study with organisations such as Highways England and the Centre for Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV) plots the UK’s CAV ‘Roadmap to 2030’ including the skills critical for a self-driving future.   Read more...
Results of the first automated vehicles consultation on safety and legal liability published Results of the first automated vehicles consultation on safety assurance and legal liability as well as the full text responses received have been published today by the Law Commission.  Read more...
26th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) IRF is pleased to support the 26th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)  Read more...
Hyundai uses artificial intelligence to develop safety systems Hyundai will use artificial intelligence (AI) to develop the next generation of advanced safety systems.  Read more...
Conferences and events
Rural Roads for Development The University of Birmingham, in association with the International Road Federation is pleased to offer this hands-on training course in the area of rural roads.  Read more...
UK Road Safety Week 2019 UK Road Safety Week 2019 will take place between the 18th-24th November.  Read more...
2019 Strength in Numbers Annual Conference The NETS 2019 Annual STRENGTH IN NUMBERS® Benchmark Conference will take place in Arlington Virginia on October 9th & 10th, 2019.   Read more...
Driving at work
RoSPA Fleet Safety Awards 2019 The winners of two prestigious fleet safety awards have been announced by RoSPA.  Read more...
Commercial Fleet Awards The Commercial Fleet Awards recognise and reward the hard work and achievements of the best commercial fleet departments, suppliers and manufacturers operating in the UK.  Read more...
Leadership needed to change behaviour Managing Director of Amey Highways and Driving for Better Business Ambassador, James Haluch, explains why leadership is so important to managing occupational road risk.  Read more...
International news
São Paulo plans to cut traffic fatalities by half in 10 years Sao Paulo is planning to become the first Brazilian city to adopt a road safety plan based on the ''Safe System'' approach.  Read more...
Ireland’s leadership on road safety is “a model for the European Union” Ireland is the winner of this year’s European Transport Safety Council Road Safety Performance Index (PIN) award.  Read more...
Sweden to host 3rd Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety Sweden is to host the 3rd Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety.  Read more...
Enforcement of road transport rules must be a top priority for the EU after elections In light of the European elections, IRU and ETF - the EU social partners for Road Transport - call on the European Commission and Parliament to put enforcement at the top of the EU transport agenda for the next legislative term.  Read more...
Safer vehicles
Older tyres banned to ‘improve road safety’ New laws banning older tyres on large vehicles to improve road safety could be introduced later this year, says the Department for Transport (DfT).  Read more...
Bloomberg Philanthropies: new report concerning road safety in Latin America A new report commissioned by Bloomberg Philanthropies reveals that more than 25,000 Latin American lives could be saved and over 170,000 serious injuries prevented by 2030 if United Nations (UN) vehicle safety regulations were applied by four key countries in the region—Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Brazil.  Read more...
Volvo Cars joins pan-European safety data sharing project Volvo Cars has joined a pan-European pilot project to share traffic safety data generated by cars and infrastructure aimed at improving road safety.  Read more...
Safer roads
iRAP’s Star Rating for Designs 4 Part Webinar Series iRAP's Star Rating for Designs 4 Part webinar Series will be held in July.  Read more...
Safer drivers
Using Telematics to understand individual driver risk A challenge with using telematics systems to reduce driver risk is that whilst telematics data offers a high level indication of which drivers at the highest risk of a crash, it cannot tell you what specific behavioural motivation is causing each telematics violation.  Read more...
Forthcoming events
Southern African Transport Conference – 8 July 2019 International Course on Traffic Safety in Work Zones – 24 September 2019 2019 Strength in Numbers Annual Conference – 9 October 2019 26th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) – 21 October 2019 3rd Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety – 19 February 2020