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Latest Developments
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The International Transport Forum (ITF/OECD)
published recently a new Report titled “Best Practice for Urban Road
Safety”, in which seven case studies of cities that are implementing data-driven road safety policies are
presented. It highlights relevant experiences aimed at reducing the
number of traffic casualties and protecting vulnerable road users in
Barcelona, Bogota, Buenos Aires, Fortaleza, London, New York and
Rotterdam and illustrates the diverse approaches to better understand
road crashes and to prevent road traffic deaths and serious injuries.   |
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A
new NACTO resource on emerging street practices for pandemic response
and recovery was developed through a collaboration between the National
Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), the NACTO Global Designing Cities Initiative, Bloomberg Associates, Street Plans, and Sam Schwartz. This resource aggregates and synthesizes emerging practices in transportation and street design in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
It highlights cities’ current efforts to re-organize streets to best
manage this crisis and support economic recovery. This new resource will
be revised and expanded regularly as more data becomes available on
what approaches are the most successful at meeting city goals.   |
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The World Road Association – PIARC recently
published the “Review of Global Road Safety Audit Guidelines – With
Specific Consideration for Low- and Middle-Income Countries”. This
Report involves a comprehensive review of current Road Safety Audit Manuals and Guidelines from a range of different countries
to establish current practices and considers previous international
reviews to determine key areas where additional guidance is required, or
exemplar practice is well established. The initial consideration is
given to the core issues facing many countries regarding implementing a
comprehensive audit system.  |
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The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) has published the 39th PIN Flash Report “How to improve the safety of goods vehicles in the EU?“. This report examines the toll transport of goods and services has taken in terms of road deaths over
the period 2010 to 2018. It examines the performance of individual
countries, as well as the European Union as a whole, in tackling the
risks, and describes some of the policies needed to reduce future deaths
and serious injuries related to goods traffic.   |
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Our Publications
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KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence (KIOS CoE) of University of Cyprus organized
the 23rd EURO Working Group on Transportation EWGT 2020 which took
place with great success in Paphos, Cyprus, on 16-18 September 2020. The
sessions focused on various themes including advanced methodologies for road safety analyses.  NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:  European Countries’ Road Safety Evaluation by Τaking Ιnto Account Multiple Classes of Fatalities |
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The 6th Congress of the European Academy of Neurology took place virtually with great success, on 23 – 26 May, 2020. The theme of the congress was “Time for Action: Predict, Prevent, Repair”.
The sessions focused on showing the novel therapeutic interventions,
designed to predict, protect and repair neurodegenerative diseases. Some
sessions concerned cognitive impairment and road safety.  NTUA contributed actively with the following presentations: |
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A paper titled “Meta-regressions of exposure parameters used in spatial road safety analyses, September 2020” authored by Apostolis Ziakopoulos, and George Yannis, is now published in Advances in Transportation Studies. The objective of this paper is to obtain quantitative estimates that several study characteristics impose on the values of their coefficients applying
meta-regression techniques to three common exposure parameters (traffic
volume/AADT, roadway length and vehicle distance traveled). Results
indicate that the impact of traffic volume on crash counts was
positively correlated with taking speed limit and road user age into
consideration in spatial analyses, while the impact of road length on
crash counts in spatial analyses was found to be higher in studies
considering only fatal crashes.  |
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A Diploma Thesis titled “Driving behaviour during texting and surfing in rural roads using a driving simulator” was recently presented by Marios Sekadakis. The aim of this Diploma Thesis is to
investigate the impact of texting and web surfing through smartphone on
the driving behaviour and safety of young drivers on rural roads.
It was found that driver distraction leads to statistically significant
increase of accident probability, headway distance and lateral distance
variation. On the other hand, it was observed that speed variation and
headway distance variation were reduced.  
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Upcoming Events
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The International Road Federation (IRF), together with Qatar University, Qatar Transportation and Traffic Safety Center, National Traffic Safety Committee of Qatar Government and World Conference on Transport Research Society, are organising a Webinar on “Global Trends on the Status of Traffic Safety under the Covid-19 Pandemic”, which will be held on 29 September 2020 at 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM CEST. This
webinar aims to discuss the potential impacts of the current Covid-19
Pandemic and the associated mobility restriction policies on road
traffic safety status.  |
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ESRA2 (E-Survey of Road Users’ Attitudes) project with the active participation of NTUA is organising six on-line webinars under the theme “Measuring Global Traffic Safety Cultures to Support Effective Road Safety Policy Development” starting on 23 September 2020. The Webinar
topics concern: Enforcement and traffic violations – Seat belt &
Child restraint systems – Senior road users – Support for policy
measures – Pedestrians – Cyclists – Moped drivers and Motorcyclists –
Gender Issues – Young road users – Subjective safety and risk
perception – Vehicle automation.  Registration for the September 23rd webinar is now open.  |
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Within the 18th European Week of Regions and Cities organised by the European Committee of the Regions, RADAR and SLAIN project are featured in the session ”Modelling the future of Road Safety using Network-wide Risk Assessment”, which will be held on 14 October 2020 at 11:00 am-12:00 pm CET. How
do you design a safe road infrastructure? How can you identify risk on
roads? How do you propose an economically viable crash
countermeasure? These will be some of the questions that will be
discussed at this session. Invited speakers are George Yannis, Lina Konstantinopoulou, Marko Sevrovic, moderated by Olivera Rozi.   |
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The National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), in cooperation with the Hellenic Institute of Transportation Engineers (HITE) organises the 8th Road Safety & Simulation International Conference 2021 (RSS2021) which will be held on 22-24 September 2021 in Athens, Greece. The Conference’s theme this year will be: “Road Safety and Digitalisation”
aiming to capture all recent trends in road safety emerging
technologies, surrogate measures, augmented and virtual reality, big
data, modeling and simulation, which are expected to boost global road
safety in the coming years. Road safety experts and scientists from all
over the world will join forces for a widely open and vivid discussion
on both traditional and innovative solutions with high potential for
traffic safety improvement.   | | | |
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