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The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) published the 15th edition of PIN Annual Report  , with the active contribution of NTUA, presented at the 2021 ETSC Road Safety Performance Index Award event which took place online with great success on 16 June 2021. While the collective EU road death reduction target for 2020 was not met,
all countries made improvements, and saved lives by trying to reach it.
Only Greece reached the target with a 54% reduction in road deaths.
Portugal, Spain, Croatia, Belgium, Slovenia, Italy, Lithuania, Bulgaria,
Denmark, Austria and Hungary achieved a decrease above the EU average
of 37%, while the other countries progressed to a lesser extent. The
progress was slowest in the Netherlands with a 5% decrease and the UK
with 14%.  |
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Latest Developments
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Greece was awarded with the 2021 Annual Road Safety Award of the European Transport Safety Council for achieving the 2010-2020 target of reducing road fatalities by 50% (performing 54% decrease from 1.258 road fatalities in 2010 to 579 in 2020), making also NTUA
proud of its contribution. This significant improvement over the last
decade is the result of constantly increasing effort by the Public
Authorities and all road safety stakeholders on infrastructure
improvements (new motorways, new urban mobility schemes, etc.),
legislation (new traffic fines scheme, driving licence, etc.), campaigns
and education schemes. As a result, Greek drivers changed significantly
their safety behaviour, initially triggered by the economic crisis but
maintained also well after, demonstrated in a constantly improving road
safety culture of a more mature society. However, even if Greece
progressed from 26th to 20th position during the decade, collective
efforts should continue as it still lags well behind the EU average.   |
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Τhe European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) together with the Flemish Foundation for Traffic Knowledge (VSV) and Fundación MAPFRE have recently published the LEARN! Manual envisaged as a starting point for those who design, test, implement and evaluate educational activities on traffic safety and mobility,
and are embarking upon the creation of new, or updating existing,
activities. The new resource should also be useful to Ministries,
Authorities, Schools and Organisations when deciding on which activities
and projects to buy or fund.   |
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The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), in collaboration with the International Transport Forum (ITF), has launched the FIA Disabled Motoring Website. The FIA Disabled Motoring website provides access to information on facilities and options for people with disabilities travelling by car in
different countries around the world. It is based on data collected
from FIA Member Clubs and ITF Member States around the globe. The
website is also a resource for everyone travelling outside their own
country who are unsure about the rules and conditions for disabled
drivers.  |
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The New Traffic Safety Research Interdisciplinary Journal aims
to become a reference point for the international research community
within the domain of road safety. The Journal’s overaching objective is
to contribute to the global shift to the Safe System paradigm within the road transportation domain.
The journal promotes publication of innovative research within
engineering, psychology, sociology, medicine and other related fields in
attempt to explain and address the phenomenon of road casualties.
Proactive methods and analyses as well as multidisciplinary views on the
road traffic safety problems are encouraged.  |
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Our Publications
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The chair of Transportation System Engineering of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) organised the 7th IEEE International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS 2021),
which was held online on the 16-17 June 2021. More than 80
state-of-the-art papers were presented boosting vivid discussion on
future ITS challenges and opportunities. NTUA actively contributed with the following presentations: |
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The RADAR project within the framework of Interreg Danube Transnational Programme, organised on 15 June 2021 the 6th Road Safety Expert Group online Meeting with focus on road infrastructure safety management.
Key experts contributed into a vivid discussion on the challenges and
opportunities brought by the new EU Directive on road infrastructure
safety management.  NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation:  Network-wide Road Safety Assessment |
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An NTUA Diploma Thesis titled “Investigation of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mobility in Greece using time series analysis” was
recently presented by Eleni Blatsouka. Data on mobility and
restrictive measures were collected from online databases and ARIMA time
series models were developed for Greece and Athens with dependent
variables: driving or walking and with exogenous factor one of the
restrictive measures. It was demonstrated that the closing of educational institutions and lockdown are the most important exogenous factors for describing mobility,
while the curfew and the mandatory use of mask in all public areas are
not significant factors. In addition, seasonal models appear to produce
better forecasts than the non-seasonal ones.   |
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Upcoming Events
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The Forum of European Road Safety Research Institutes (FERSI) is organising a Symposium titled: “Implementing evidence-based road safety measures, removing barriers and enhancing public support“, which will be held online, on 14 October 2021.
The Symposium will consist of three presentations on vulnerable road
users, speed and road safety management. Practitioners and decision
makers who have been successful in implementing effective but sometimes
controversial road safety measures will share their experience. The symposium is a prelude to a physical conference on the same topic that will held in the autumn of 2022.  |
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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. Selected papers will be published in key
international scientific journals and special awards will be granted to
best papers.  |
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