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The World Bank Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF) has published a Report titled: Guide for Road Safety Interventions: Evidence of What Works and What Does Not Work. The Guide will help road safety practitioners understand that what sometimes appear to be “common-sense” approaches often not deliver the best road safety outcomes.
Although some interventions provide benefits, others have very limited
or even negative impacts, despite being commonly—and
mistakenly—recommended and adopted.  |
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Latest Developments
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The International Road Federation (IRF) published recently the Connected and Autonomous Mobility Manifesto, with the active contribution of NTUA. The main objective of this Manifesto is to provide the basis for discussion to proactively prepare ourselves for the revolution that Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) bring to the mobility and transport sector.
The Manifesto summarises the initial discussions about the key
challenges of the main workstreams guiding the IRF Connected and
Autonomous Mobility Committee (CAMC) work, including the regulatory
framework, technological innovations, future developments and social
needs.  |
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The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) has recently published the PIN Flash Report 40 titled: Are Medical Fitness to Drive Procedures Fit for Purpose? with the active contribution of NTUA. This Report examines the current state of play in PIN countries regarding the assessment of medical fitness to drive,
with reference to the 2006 EU Directive on Driving Licence
and recommends that a standardised screening process be considered
across all Member States when assessing a driver’s fitness to drive. The
process should be based on international best practice and ideally,
consistent across all jurisdictions.   |
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The Road Safety Institute ‘Panos Mylonas’ (RSI) and the Hellenic Institute of Transportation Engineers (HITE) with the support of Hellastron and the Alliance for Safety and Culture on the Road “Roads to the Future”, organised with great success the 14th Pan-Hellenic Road Safety Week during 15-22 March 2021. The aim of this action was to inform, raise awareness and educate all road users
(students, parents, teachers, citizens and policy makers) in order to
prevent and reduce road accident, which are a scourge on our society.   |
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Our Publications
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The Publications Office of the European Union and the ISA² programme of the European Commission organised with great success the European Data Conference on Reference Data and Semantics (ENDORSE) which was held online on 16-19 March 2021. The Conference created an opportunity to link expertise to tackle current and future issues in the fields of interoperability and knowledge management including aspects of road safety.  NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation from the The Horizon 2020 project BeOpen (European forum and observatory for open science in transport):  FAIR Challenges in Transport Open Science |
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A paper titled “Which factors lead to driving errors? A structural equation model analysis through a driving simulator experiment” authored by Panagiotis Papantoniou, George Yannis and Eleni Christofa is
published in Journal of IATSS. Data were obtained from a driving
simulation experiment in which 95 participants covering all ages were
asked to drive under different types of distraction (no distraction,
conversation with passenger, cell phone use) in rural and urban road
environment, as well as in both low and high traffic conditions. Structural
Equation Models were developed and the driving error was modeled as a
latent variable based on several individual driving simulator parameters.
The results of this complex model reveal that the impact of driver
characteristics and area type are the only statistically significant
factors affecting the probability of driving errors. Interestingly,
neither conversing with a passenger nor talking on the cell phone have a
statistically significant impact on driving error behaviour which
highlights the importance of the present analysis and more specifically
the development of a measure that represents overall driving error
behaviour instead of individual driving errors variables.  |
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An NTUA Diploma Thesis titled “Critical driving parameters affecting speeding using data from smartphones” was recently presented by Dimosthenis-Marios Tzoutzoulis.
Data were collected from a smartphone application of 200 drivers in
naturalistic driving and four log-linear regression models were
developed correlating speeding with driving characteristics and with
answers to dedicated questionnaire. The results demonstrate that the number of harsh accelerations, the percentage of mobile use and the distance of the trip affect the speeding percentage
and are correlated with the aggressive behavior of the drivers.
Furthermore, increased average acceleration does not always lead to
breaking speed limits. Finally, male drivers tend to drive faster in
comparison with women.   |
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Point of View
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Is Artificial Intelligence the future of road safety? Artificial
Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques are currently used in
several road safety related applications, supporting decision making of
both the Authorities and the road users and transforming and upgrading
significantly the potential for road safety improvement worldwide: – In vehicle technology,
AI algorithms are implemented to exploit computer vision and interpret
data provided by RADAR and LIDAR technologies in both traditional and
Connected and Automated Vehicles. Today, most car-makers invest
seriously in AI. Read the whole article... |
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Upcoming Events
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The European Commission is organising the EU Road Safety Results Conference which will be held online on 20 April 2021.
The Conference is an opportunity to engage with EU Member State
authorities and all stakeholders on the progress being made with
implementing the Safe System approach. In particular, it will allow
participants to learn how work towards the Key Performance Indicators
set out in the Next Steps Towards Vision Zero policy framework is moving
forward.  Registration is open  |
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The European Commission together with ARCADE project organise the third European Conference on Connected and Automated Driving (EUCAD 2021), which will be held virtually on 20-22 April 2021.
Participants will enjoy a blend of policy-oriented plenary sessions, as
well as thematic breakout sessions to discuss specific R&I
challenges. A virtual exhibition of projects will be accessible
throughout the three-day event.  |
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NTUA within the framework of the Sixth UN Global Road Safety Week is organising a Scientific Workshop titled “Innovation in Road Safety Research” which will be held online on May 20th, 2021.
The objective of this Workshop is to highlight through an intensive
flow of presentations the main findings and challenges of key road
safety research projects carried out within the NTUA Department of
Transportation Planning and Engineering and to open up the discussion in
a round table with high-level experts on key innovations in road safety
research in Greece, in Europe and worldwide. NTUA supports actively the
UN Global Road Safety Week pledge for speed limits of 30km/h in urban areas. |
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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 2022 (RSS2022) which will be held on NEW DATES 08-10 June 2022 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.  New abstract submission deadline 28 June 2021: Submit Now |
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Road Safety Systems
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