RoadSafe News

Awards
Prince Michael International Road Safety Awards The Prince Michael International Road Safety Awards are taking place on Tuesday 10th December.  Read more...
International news
Four cities announced for new global child-friendly street design programme The Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI), a National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) programme, has announced four cities - Fortaleza, Brazil, Kigali, Rwanda, Santiago, Chile and Tirana, Albania – to pilot a child-focused street transformation, supported by the FIA Foundation.  Read more...
#StopTheCrash Campaign for car and motorcycle safety launches in Indonesia For the first time in Indonesia, the #StopTheCrash Partnership has hosted live demonstrations of crash avoidance technologies in support of the United Nations Global Goals and the Decade of Action for Road Safety.  Read more...
Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety: commit to act. Join the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety in promoting the People's Declaration so that it can bring thousands of signatures from people around the world to the attention of world leaders at the 3rd Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Sweden in February 2020.  Read more...
CIECA Congress 2020: Call for papers. The 52nd CIECA General Assembly and Congress will take place in Porto, Portugal, on Thursday 4th and Friday 5th June 2020.  Read more...
Progress in Improving Global Road Safety The UN Secretary-General’s report on the Progress in Improving Global Road Safety provides an overview of the activities undertaken by the global road safety community toward the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011–2020 and the Sustainable Development Goals.  Read more...
New Global Roadmap of Action to guide the future of mobility The Sustainable Mobility for All (SuM4All) initiative, the Global Roadmap of Action toward Sustainable Mobility (GRA), is a tool to guide country decision-makers on "how to" achieve mobility that is efficient, accessible, safe and green.   Read more...
UK news
Presentations from the PACTS Post Crash Response Conference now available The Safe System approach to road safety aims to minimise road deaths and life-changing injuries rather than to prevent all crashes. The effectiveness of post-crash response is therefore a crucial part of the system.   Read more...
The National Road Safety Conference: presentations now available. Organised by Road Safety GB, the 11th running of the National Conference had the theme ‘Beyond 2020: the future of road safety in the UK’.  Read more...
Driving at work
Company car and van drivers at higher risk, says Drive Tech Road Safety Week revealed nearly a third of drivers claim to have experience a collision or near missin te past year, but risks are significantly higher for fleet and at-work drivers, according to DriveTech.  Read more...
RoSPA Fleet and Road Safety Event 2020. The RoSPA Fleet and Safety Event 2020 will take place on the 27th February at the Leicester Conferences.  Read more...
Mott MacDonald: new Driving for Better Business Champion. Global engineering and development company Mott MacDonald is the latest Driving for Better Business Champion.  Read more...
Webinar: Fleet risk gap analysis and driver fatigue Simon Turner, Campaign Manager of Driving for Better Business will be taking part in a Barbour EHS/SHP online webinar on Driver Safety, Risk Assessment and Fatigue starting at 11am on Thursday 28th November.  Read more...
Fleets should consider road risks connected with changing driver demographics Fleets should consider road risks connected with changing driver demographics.  Read more...
5 Telematics feedback strategies to change driver behaviour Telematics systems are increasingly being used by fleet operators and insurance companies to mitigate occupational road risk  Read more...
‘Greening Your Fleet’ event. 'Greening your fleet' is an event that brings together small and medium sized businesses to look at the challenge of adapting to green van technology.  Read more...
Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV)
Waymo CEO sees driverless trucks catching on faster than taxis True driverless cars have arrived from Waymo, the self-driving unit of Alphabet, but the company’s chief executive officer says robot ride hailing may not be the first form of automotive autonomy to take off commercially.  Read more...
Conferences and events
Fleet News Awards 2020: now open for entries. The Fleet News Awards 2020 will take place on the 11th March 2020 at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London.  Read more...
NETS’ STRENGTH in NUMBERS® Benchmark Conference 2019 The NETS’ STRENGTH in NUMBERS® Benchmark Conference represents an opportunity to meet with like-minded road safety professionals, learn about the latest road safety research and gain insights into new and emerging technology.   Read more...
Safer vehicles
Meet Graham. The only person designed to survive on our roads 'Cars: Accelerating the Modern World' explores how the car as a driving force has accelerated the pace of change over the past century.  Read more...
Safer cars for safer EU roads. As of mid-2022, all new cars put on the EU market will have to be equipped with advanced safety systems.  Read more...
BrazilRAP Launches: Energised for Action iRAP, in association with the National Department of Transport and Infrastructure Brazil (DNIT), has announced the launch of a Brazil Road Assessment Programme (BrazilRAP).  Read more...
Safer drivers
Government acts to improve road safety by closing mobile phone loophole The government has confirmed it will close a legal loophole which has allowed drivers to escape prosecution for hand-held mobile phone use while behind the wheel.  Read more...
Forthcoming events
3rd Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety – 19 February 2020 RoSPA Fleet and Road Safety Event 2020. – 27 February 2020 'Joining the Dots' National Analysts' Conference 2020 – 3 March 2020 Fleet News Awards – 11 March 2020 Young Driver Focus 2020 – 19 May 2020 CIECA Congress 2020. – 4 June 2020