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Latest Developments
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The World Health Organisation ( WHO) released a Report titled: “ Understanding and bridging the differences between country-reported and WHO-estimated road traffic fatality data“, based on the EuroMed Transport Support Project. It focuses on th e considerable challenges in collecting complete, accurate and reliable road traffic fatality data that
some countries worldwide are facing. Moreover, it attempts to explain
the disparity between WHO estimates and country-reported data on road
traffic fatality and provide suggestions on what steps countries can
take to strengthen their data systems. 
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The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) has
published a Report titled “Independence in Investigation of Transport
Accidents”. The aim of this Report is to promote a set of principles for
independence of transport accident investigation in Europe, under which
the requirements for independent investigation could be met by the EU
itself, by each Member State and by any other European country.  
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The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) has
published a short video explaining how alcohol interlock programmes in
several European countries are helping to cut drink-driving. Ending drink-driving in the EU could prevent up to 5.000 deaths every year. 
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Statistics Corner
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Since 55 years, the International Road Federation (IRF) World Road Statistics (WRS) continue
to be the major comprehensive, universal source of statistical data on
road networks, traffic and inland transport, including traffic
accidents. This year the WRS 2019 (data 2012-2017) features more than 205 countries, with data on over 45 road related topics,
with the active contribution of NTUA for the Greek data. There is
highest response rate in years, covering more countries than ever before
and a brand new design and layout. 
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Our Publications
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Tongji University organized the “ 7th International Symposium on Transportation Safety” which took place with great success on 09-10 July 2019, in Shanghai. The Symposium focused on innovations promoting the development of traffic management methods and technologies,
and brought together some of the world-leading experts in road safety
and traffic modeling, who presented their work on the utilization of big
data, cloud computing, statistical modeling, safety surrogate measures,
and artificial intelligence. NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:  Advanced Safety Modeling and Management Platform
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The City of Edmonton’s Traffic Safety section organized the 22nd International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety (ICADTS) Conference, which was held with great success in Edmonton, Canada, on 18-21 August 2019. This multi-disciplinary conference brought together experts from public health and road safety, traffic
and transport psychology, public health, law, medicine, economics, law
enforcement, public policy, education, pharmacology, toxicology,
forensic science, human factors, and alcohol intervention and
rehabilitation.  
NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:  BAC Per Se Laws: Are they Related to Drivers’ Perceived Attitude, Acceptability, and Behaviors regarding DUI?
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A Diploma Thesis titled “ Investigation of traffic and safety behaviour of pedestrians texting or web-surfing” was recently presented by Marilia Ropaka. The regression analyses developed in this research pointed out that in high pedestrian traffic, mobile use not only decreases pedestrians’ speed, regardless of their age,
but also increases their probability of being involved in an accident
with an oncoming vehicle. Results indicated that distraction caused by
texting or web-surfing had a negative impact on pedestrians’ main
traffic and safety characteristics.  
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Survey
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Participate now at the driver telematics survey of the Horizons 2020 research project i-Dreams. The i-Dreams project develops a highly innovative driver monitoring system that will provide interventions to keep drivers within a safe driving zone,
applicable in several transport modes: passenger cars, trucks, buses,
trains, trams. You can submit your valuable contribution by filling-in
the 15-minute online survey available at the following link. 
You can also sign up to the i-DREAMS newsletter here
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Upcoming Events
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AISICO s.r.l. and ERF are jointly organizing the International Conference on Road Safety for Motorcyclists that will take place at Pereto, Italy, on September 20, 2019. The
objective of the Conference is to investigate the main issues related
to motorcyclists road safety from different points of view and sensitize
the industry experts about it. 
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Reducing
the road safety performance gap between EU Member States and offering
high levels of safety on all European roads is one of the most important
objectives of the European Commission in the area of transport. The EU Road Safety Exchange project
wants to help reduce this gap through the exchange of knowledge and
experience on effective road safety measures. The project will develop
partnerships between road safety professionals in different European
countries and help address their specific road safety challenges through
twinning activities. On 9 October 2019, a high level event in Brussels will mark the official launch of the project. 
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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: 1/10/2019):   
- 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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