| | | The International Transport Forum (ITF) published a Report titled Streets That Fit: Re-allocating Space for Better Cities.
This Report looks at how street space has typically been allocated in
the past, examines the rationale for street space allocation and
describes how to measure space consumption for mobility purposes.
The study also explores by way of a simulation how new mobility
services and travel modes interact when a limited, dynamic and
demand-responsive re-allocation of street space is introduced in a
mid-sized city.   | |
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| Latest Developments |
| | | | Τhe European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) has published the 42nd PIN Flash Report titled How Traffic Law Enforcement Can Contribute to Safer Roads with the active contribution of NTUA.
Exceeding speed limits, drink- or distracted- driving, and failure to
wear a seatbelt are among the important factors leading to death and
serious injury on European roads. Road safety laws have been adopted to
guide drivers in their behaviour. Many comply with them willingly.
Others, however, would be less likely to comply if it were not for fear
of being detected and sanctioned. This is where traffic law enforcement
comes in. This Report gives an overview of the current state of road traffic enforcement across the EU, with recommendations for action.   | | | |
| | | | The World Bank Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF) has published a Report titled: Guidelines for Conducting Road Safety Data Reviews. Since
road safety data definitions and collection methods must converge into
standard international criteria, this Report is designed to support reviewers in the assessment of road safety data collection;
the complete range of safety data should be considered. This task can
be complicated because collection of road safety data is often not
achieved by activities dedicated to this purpose, but rather through
piggybacks on other sources.  | | | |
| | | | Together for Safer Roads Global Coalition published a Report titled Driver Attitudes Towards Vehicle Safety Technology.
Fleet Managers now have access to GPS-based telematics and in-cab
driver assistance technology that is often paired with in-cab dash
cameras—all of which can keep drivers and the public safe.
Since many drivers and even some managers are critical of the
technology, significantly impacting adoption and use, this Report helps
to better understand what makes drivers reluctant to adopt in-cab camera
technology and identify what can be done to positively influence
perceptions.  | | | |
| Statistics Corner |
| | | | Road
fatalities in Greece in 2021 presented a slight increase (4%) compared
to 2020 figures, according to the provisional ELSTAT data. This slight
increase is mainly attributed to the returning back to normal traffic
from the pandemic period. During the last decade, Greece presented an impressive road safety improvement
in the European Union, with a decrease of 38% in road fatalities since
2012 and a decrease of serious injuries of 60%. The rate fatalities per
million vehicles has decreased by 42% since 2012.   | | | |
| | | | The International Road Federation (IRF) released the 58th edition of the IRF World Road Statistics 2021
(WRS2021) which continues to be the major comprehensive, universal
source of statistical data on road networks, traffic and inland
transport, including traffic accidents. This year the WRS 2021 (data 2014-2019) includes up-to-date information for more than 200 countries and 180+ indicators, with
the active contribution of NTUA for the Greek data. Split into 11
sections, it includes key data on topics such as Road
Networks, Multimodal Traffic, Road Expenditures & Revenues, Road
Traffic, Vehicles in Use, Energy Consumption, CO2
Emissions and Road Accidents, and much more.  | | | |
| Our Publications |
| | | | NTUA Professor George Yannis is ranked 2nd most productive European Scientist in Road Safety Research (11th globally and at the top 0.1% of all Scientists in the field), according to recent rankings from Expertscape‘s PubMed-based algorithms for the last 10 years. According to the same rankings, NTUA Road Safety research productivity is ranked 4th in Europe (and within the top 40 Universities globally).  | | | |
| | | | The Conference of European Directors of Roads (CEDR) organised with great success a Webinar under the theme: Network-wide Road Safety Assessment (Article 5) of RISM II, which was held on 3 March 2022. CEDR WG Road Safety aims to develop and share knowledge among NRAs on the improvement of safety of road infrastructure. NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation: | | | |
| | | | The International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences (IATSS) organised with great success the 7th GIFTS Symposium,
which was held online, on 18 November. In this 7th forum, experts in
transportation and safety as well as specialists from international
organizations, kicked around the roles of transportation policy in
response to regional and national characteristics. The aim was to
exchange opinions and discuss various issues
to be resolved for a sustainable transportation society and future
prospects, while keeping the ideal post-corona society in mind.   NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation: | | | |
| | | | The University of Bologna, within the framework of the EU funded Horizon 2020 project PREDICT: Theory of prediction in the digital society, organised with great success a Workhop that was held in Bologna, on 18-19 November 2021. PREDICT aims to investigate a more extensive form of rationality in contemporary prediction, and the main Workshop theme was “The Future of Insurance: How does algorithmic prediction affect insurance practices?”. NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation: | | | |
| | | | A paper titled “Spatial predictions of harsh driving events using statistical and machine learning methods” authored by Apostolos Ziakopoulos, Eleni Vlachogianni, Constantinos Antoniou and George Yannis is published in Safety Science. Spatial
models including Geographically Weighted Poisson Regression, Bayesian
Conditional autoregressive models (CAR), and variations of EXtreme
Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) are implemented. The purpose is to: (i)
explore parameters affecting frequencies of harsh driving events through
causal spatial models in an urban road network and (ii) assess the
predictive performance of models by testing the transferable components
of these models in a new urban network test area. The models are trained
and evaluated in terms of accuracy and transferability for Harsh
Breaking (HB) predictions in separate areas of Athens, Greece. Findings
indicate key geometrical characteristics affecting HB frequencies per road segment.  | | | |
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| Upcoming Events |
| | | | The Horizon 2020 project i-DREAMS (smart Driver Environment Assesment and Monitoring System) recently released its 4th Newsletter,
presenting the main accomplishments of the project, through creative
solutions and risk mitigation strategies. The Newsletter presents team’s and participant’s view on the Belgian field trial, seven new technical reports submitted in 2021 and several i-DREAMS dissemination activities.   | | | |
| | | | The sixth Newsletter of the Horizon 2020 project BeOpen (European forum and observatory for open science in transport) was recently released with all the latest developments and the deliverables of the project.
This Newsletter focused on the BeOpen final event, which took place
online on June 9, 2021, with presentations and discussions helpful for a
better understanding of open science and how the BE OPEN project helped
to move the concept forward in the transport domain.  | | | |
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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 8-10 June 2022 in Athens, Greece, under the auspices of the City of Athens and the Hellenic Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport. 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.  Early bird registration is open until 11 April  | | | |
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