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The 2020 infographic of NTUA Road Safety Observatory (www.nrso.ntua.gr) highlights one more very intensive and highly fruitful year, despite the pandemic. The nrso scientific team with high dedication, efficiency and expertise continue to grow and excel,
being active in 30 innovative research projects, succeeded to publish
65 scientific papers (23 in peer reviewed journals), and travelled
around the world in hundreds of webmeetings to develop and promote road
safety science. This year, besides intensive research in six
Horizon 2020 and other projects, we were also lucky to contribute to the
long waited Athens Great Walk large urban regeneration project and to
the National Road Safety Action plan. During and after the pandemic, we
are better than ever committed to our scientific quest for safer roads everywhere and for all.  |
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Statistics Corner
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Road
fatalities in Greece in 2020 presented a significant decrease (16%)
compared to 2019 figures, according to recently published ELSTAT data. This significant decrease is mainly attributed to the traffic restrictions due to the pandemic. During the last decade, Greece presented the most impressive road safety improvement in the European Union, with a decrease of 49% in road fatalities since 2011, achieving its target of halving road fatalities in 2020 compared to 2010. Serious injuries were reduced by 70% and the rate fatalities per vehicles was decreased by 52% since 2011.  |
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Latest Developments
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The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) has recently published a Report titled: The Impact of COVID-19 on Traffic Safety and Mobility Education. The Report focuses on the effect of the restrictions imposed by most European Governments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In particular the closure of schools, affected the provision of traffic
safety and mobility education in their country, their work related to
it, and how they adapted to it. The potential for Traffic Safety and
Mobility Education improvement during and after the pandemic is
discussed.   |
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The Forum of European Road Safety Research Institutes (FERSI) published a Paper titled “E-scooters in Europe: legal status, usage and safety“, which presents the legal status, usage and safety of e-scooters in 18 European countries. Many
countries are working on more targeted or more elaborate legislation.
Οbjective information about numbers, safety, users and their behaviour
is scarce and needs to be strengthened.  |
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A new book titled ‘Highway Safety Analytics and Modeling‘ authored by Dominique Lord, Xiao Qin, Srinivas R. Geedipally, has been recently published. This book covers the key elements needed for making effective transportation engineering and policy decisions based on highway crash data analysis.
It covers all aspects of the decision-making process, from collecting
and assembling data to making decisions based on the results of the
analyses. The book discusses the challenges with crash and naturalistic
data, identifying problems and proposing best methods to solving them.
It examines the nuances associated with crash data analysis, showing how
to develop countermeasures, policies, and programs to reduce the
frequency and severity of traffic crashes  |
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Our Publications
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An NTUA Diploma Thesis titled “Event identification based on driving characteristics on rural roads”
was recently presented by Akrivi Varela. Focus was put on determining
the main factors that can describe the situation before and during an
event. Results showed that random forest model performs much better than
the binomial logistic regression model in identifying event occurrence
with very few false alarms. Moreover, speed and longitudinal
acceleration along with total distance driven from the beginning of the
driving session, turned out to better describe the case of driving one
minute prior to an event. Finally, driving during an event can be
sufficiently described through speed, the deviation of the vehicle from
the middle of the road as well as time headway with the vehicle ahead.   |
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The Horizon 2020 project HADRIAN (Holistic Approach for Driver Role Integration and Automation Allocation for European Mobility Needs) published recently the 1st HADRIAN Newsletter. One-year technical work is presented, highlighting the HADRIAN operational concept for improved driver role for automated driving
and the respective driver state monitoring capability and HMI approach,
together with related safety and impact assessment and the elaboration
of ethical and legal implications for automated driving.   |
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The Horizon 2020 project i-DREAMS (smart Driver and Road Environment Assessment and Monitoring System) recently released its 3rd Newsletter,
presenting the main accomplishments of the project, through creative
solutions and risk mitigation strategies. The newsletter overviews the progress of the project during 2020, and highlights the technical results of project deliverables,
spanning from the theoretical modelling of the Safety Tolerance Zone
and the active and post-trip intervention strategies to the practical
organization of the 6-month field trial experiment and the corresponding
hardware and software developed from the consortium.   |
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Upcoming Events
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The UN Road Safety Collaboration is organizing the global campaign for the Sixth UN Global Road Safety Week, 17-23 May 2021. The 6th Global Road Safety Week will have as theme Managing Speeding,
with focus on city streets safety and the introduction of 30km/h speed
limit in cities. It will be a great opportunity to mobilise the global
population (Authorities, stakeholders, citizens) and launch the global
plan for the newly proclaimed Second Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030. During this week, several road safety events are expected to be organised worldwide, including the active participation of NTUA.  |
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POLIS, the European Cities Network, is organising the 2021 Annual Polis Conference, which will take place on 1-2 December in Gothenburg, Sweden.
The Conference provides an opportunity for cities and regions to
showcase their transport achievements to a large audience of mobility
experts, practitioners and decision makers. With a focus on innovation,
sustainability and co-creation, Gothenburg hosts one of Europe’s most
dynamic clusters within the field of mobility and safety.   |
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