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Latest Developments
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Within the European Mobility Week 2019, the European Commission and the Global Alliance of NGOs
for Road Safety co-organised a Road Safety Roundtable in Brussels on 16
September. During this event, a commitment from European cities,
coordinated by POLIS and Eurocities, entitled “The New Paradigm for Safe City Streets” was handed over including 10 principles to be recognized by the cities, as necessary for sound and effective action for traffic safety.  
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NACTO’s Guidelines for Regulating Shared Micromobility outline best practices for cities and public entities regulating and managing shared micromobility services on their streets. Its
recommendations were developed to reflect the wide variety of
experiences that North American cities have had in regulating and
managing shared micromobility. Shared micromobility is still in its
infancy and there are outstanding questions and option for which there
is not yet a defined best practice, as highlighted within these
Guidelines.  
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Road
deaths and serious injuries are not just unfortunate accidents. They
are predictable, preventable, and unacceptable. Evidence shows that
setting a road safety target is an effective way to reduce the number of
people killed and seriously injured in traffic crashes. That is why the Towards Zero Foundation’s #50by30 campaign calls for a new target to halve road deaths and serious injuries in a new decade of SDG action for road safety to 2030. A new target and a new decade of action will help to save 675,000 lives a year, accelerate
progress in global road injury prevention, and work towards a world
eventually free from road fatalities and serious injuries.  
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Our Publications
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SaferAfrica Final Conference “Results and future perspectives for road safety in Africa” took place with great success in Tunis (Tunisia) on 18th of September.
Prominent international institutions, African regional and national
bodies’ representatives, policymakers, researchers and civil society
organizations joined the dialogue for a better road safety management throughout the Continent. The most innovative results of SaferAfrica Project are the African Road Safety Observatory and
the African-European Dialogue Platform on Road Safety which has linked
policymakers, donors and professionals engaged in road safety to plan
and design road safety actions.  NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:  Road Safety Knowledge and Data
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On
September 25, 2019, in Prague, Czech Republic, the RADAR project
together with the General Automotoclub of the Czech Republic (UAMK)
organised a Road Safety Expert Group (RSEG) Workshop on the safety
provisions for vulnerable road users (pedestrians and cyclists). This
Workshop focussed on optimised provisions for vulnerable road users (pedestrians and cyclists)
and the assessment of the potential for dedicated infrastructure
provisions and policy attitudes towards VRU safety in the Danube
region.  NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:  RSEG Expert contribution to TA 2 Draft report – Key points for Greece
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The
AIIT 2nd international congress on Transport Infrastructure and
Systems in a changing world “Towards a more sustainable, reliable and
smarter mobility” took place with great success on 23rd – 24th September 2019, in Rome. The objective of the Congress was to promote the knowledge of the new trends of development of mobility systems and transport infrastructures.
The Congress aimed at providing a forum for discussion, interactions
and exchange among researchers, scientists and engineers whose fields of
interest concern transport and infrastructure engineering including
traffic safety.  NTUA actively contributed with the following presentations:
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The Focus Area Mobility & Transportation Systems of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) organised the International Scientific Conference on Mobility and Transport ( mobil.TUM 2019) which took place with great success on 11-12 September 2019, in Munich, Germany. The theme of the conference was Transportation Systems of the Future. Road safety was 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.  NTUA actively contributed with the following presentations:
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The Hellenic Institute of Transportation Engineers (HITE) in collaboration with the Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT/CERTH), organized a workshop entitled “Transport and Tourism” which took place with great success on Wednesday, September 4 th 2019, in
Rhodes Island, under the auspices of the South Aegean Region. Through a
dialogue between stakeholders of transport and tourism, the workshop
explored how the transport sector can be promoted in relation to tourism
(and vice-versa), so that the Greek touristic destinations can provide safe and high standard transport services and infrastructures, also taking advantage of the technological developments in the field.  NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:  Tourism and Road Accidents in Greece
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Boussias Communications organized the 2019 Connected Cars Conference which took place with great success in Athens on 18th September 2019. The conference covered issues related to the major future changes coming in the field of vehicles, fleet management and transport in general,
including safety. Connected Cars Conference 2019 is set to serve as
the platform for transferring the necessary know-how and information on
the cutting-edge technologies that characterize the new vehicle era.  
NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:  Telematics, Big Data and Road Safety
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A paper titled “ A systematic cost-benefit analysis of 29 road safety measures” authored by Stijn Daniels, Heike Martensen, Annelies Schoeters, Wouter Van den Berghe, Eleonora Papadimitriou, Apostolos Ziakopoulos, Susanne Kaiser, Eva Aigner-Breuss, Aggelos Soteropoulos, Wim Wijnen, Wendy Weijermars, Laurent Carnis, Rune Elvik, Oscar Martin Perez is
now published in Accident Analysis and Prevention. For the purposes of
this study the authors collected and (re-)analyzed evidence in order to conduct cost-benefit analyses (CBAs) for 29 road safety measures.
The information on crash costs was based on data from a survey in
European countries. A systematic procedure was applied including
corrections for inflation and Purchasing Power Parity in order to
express all the monetary information in the same units (EUR, 2015).
Cost-benefit analyses were carried out for measures with favourable
estimated effects on road safety and for which relevant information on
costs could be found. Results were assessed in terms of benefit-to-cost
ratios and net present value and are included also at the SafetyCube DSS. 
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A Diploma Thesis titled “ Impact of economic, social and transport indicators on serious road injuries in the European Union”
was recently presented by Maria Charalampidi. Generalized Linear Models
application lead to the conclusion that the percentage of passenger
cars with EuroNcap scores 5 stars has the most important impact and its
increase leads to serious road injuries decrease. Moreover, the increase of the percentage of buses leads to significant decrease not only to the number of serious road injuries but also to the severity of road accidents.  
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Upcoming Events
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The LEVITATE
consortium is pleased to invite stakeholders, in particular public
authorities, road users, researchers and industry players to participate
in the 2nd Stakeholder Workshop which will take place on 26 November in Brussels,
to discuss how the policy support tool (PST) – developed by the project
– could help cities identifying the possible societal level impacts of
connected and automated vehicles on roads. The aim of this second
meeting is to gather feedback from stakeholders on the first version of
the policy support tool to predict the impact of vehicle automation
(forecasting tool) and to identify (policy) interventions to help
achieve certain long-term mobility goals and/or to mitigate the
potential negative effects of vehicle automation (backcasting tool).  Draft program is available: 
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