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The Civil Engineering School of the National Technical University of Athens was ranked 4th globally (2nd in Europe) according to ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) 2021, being the best performance of any Higher Education School in Greece. The
GRAS use a range of objective academic indicators and third-party data
to measure the performance of world universities in respective subjects,
including research output, research influence, international
collaboration, research quality, and international academic awards. NTUA road safety activities have contributed to this ranking.   |
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Latest Developments
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The World Health Organisation – Regional Office for Europe (WHO-Europe) recently published a Report titled: “Supporting healthy urban transport and mobility in the context of COVID-19“. The recommendations in this guidance can help in achieving multiple societal objectives, including: transport safety and efficiency;
improved quality of urban life; reduced emission of air pollutants and
greenhouse gases, and reduced noise; and greater opportunities to adopt a
physically active lifestyle, while supporting economic recovery.   |
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The Forum of European Road Safety Research Institutes (FERSI) published a Position Paper titled “Towards an evidence-based national road safety programme“. The paper intends to offer guidance to Member States on developing a national road safety programme.
Its main message is that a road safety programme must be based on
scientifically sound evidence in order to ensure that it focuses on the
most relevant issues and implements the most appropriate treatments.   |
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The European Commission officially relaunched its European Road Safety Charter, the largest platform on road safety in civil society, to support the Vision Zero ambition of reducing road deaths to almost zero by 2050. The Charter was founded in 2004 by the Road Safety Unit of DG Move as
part of its Road Safety Action Programme. To create more awareness and
to have a bigger presence at the local and national level, DG MOVE will
work intensively with a network of National Relays in the 27 EU Member
States.  |
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The fifth Newsletter of the Horizon 2020 project BeOpen (European forum and observatory for open science in transport) was recently released with the results of the second event held virtually at the US TRB (Transportation Research Board) 2021 Annual meeting and successive presentations of the TOPOS Observatory and Forum key features to the transport and open science community.  |
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Statistics Corner
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The Transport Community published statistics on road fatalities in 2020 for the Western Balkans’ regional participants, which show that the numbers of road fatalities per million inhabitants are higher in the Western Balkans than the EU average, highlighting the need for intensification of efforts for all pillars of road safety.   |
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Our Publications
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The RADAR project team organised with great success the 5th Road Safety Expert Group (RSEG) Meeting, which was held online, on 27 May 2021, under the theme: “Transport Safety and COVID-19“. There is a reasonable threat that investments in road infrastructure safety will be largely affected by the covid-19 and
will shrink already small budgets dedicated to road infrastructure
safety. Improving road infrastructure safety in the Danube area in this
critical time requires action to demonstrate by facts the real impact of
the pandemic outbreak on road safety.  NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:  COVID-19 impact on mobility and safety |
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An NTUA Diploma Thesis titled “Impact of weather conditions and rush on road safety” was
recently presented by Giota Spanou. Data of 42 young drivers were
collected, from a driving simulator experiment with and without any time
pressure in good weather conditions, in fog, rain, and snow. Linear and
binomial logistic regression models were developed for the mean driving
speed, reaction time, headway and accident probability. The application
of the mathematical models showed that snow and rain lead to a significant increase in the probability of an accident.
Fog increases the accident probability only in the event of a dangerous
event and time pressure seems to have the same effects as snow, a fact
that should concern drivers.   |
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Upcoming Events
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The International Transport Forum (ITF) together with the Swedish Transport Administration, VTI, the International Motorcycling Federation (FIM), and the motorcycle manufacturers associations (IMMA and ACEM) are co-organising the “Motorcyclists Safety Workshop: Riding in a Safe System” which will be held online on 9-23 June. It
is a follow-up to the Third Global Ministerial Conference on Road
Safety and will focus on the nine recommendations of the Academic Expert
Group and their application to motorcyclists’ safety.  Registration is open  |
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The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) is organising the Road Safety Performance Index Annual Conference and Award Ceremony 2021 (PIN conference) which will be held online, on 16 June 2021, at 10:30-13:00 (CET). In June each year ETSC’s analysis of overall annual progress on tackling road deaths and serious injuries is published in the PIN Annual Report. The PIN conference is also the platform for the presentation of the PIN Award to the best performing country.   |
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