RoadSafe News

 

Awards

Prince Michael International Road Safety Awards - Nominations Recognising outstanding achievement and innovation since 1987 Prince Michael International Road Safety Awards have given public recognition to those who have improved road safety world-wide.  Read more...

International news

UNRSF launches its 2021 Annual Report! The UN Road Safety Fund has launched its 2021 Annual Report, “Making an impact: safer roads, improved lives” at the International Transport Forum (ITF) Summit in Leipzig, Germany.   Read more...

UK news

Project EDWARD 2022 - ' Changing minds, changing behaviour' The week of action from Monday 19th September to Sunday 25th September and be the most ambitious yet  Read more...

‘Smart Motorways Stocktake’ National Highways has published its Second Year Progress Report which sets out its continuing progress on all actions since 2021. It also sets out the recommendations committed to as part of the Government’s response to the Transport Committee report into the Rollout and safety of smart motorways.   Read more...

Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV)

Connected Safety & Safe Road Infrastructure We have launched series of expert led webinars looking to investigate the role that connected technology can play in delivering enhanced safety to road users  Read more...

Road Safety Management

Developing and Measuring Safety Performance Indicators at Sub-National Level Roundtables Summary Report Developing and Measuring Safety Performance Indicators With the growing interest developing road safety plans which information other than historic data supported by Agilyisis, Road Safety GB has run a series of workshops develop other ways to help explain and demonstrate the levels of safety using Safety Performance Indicators  Read more...

Saving Lives Through Private Investment in Road Safety The World Bank Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF) is launching its new report - the Saving Lives Through Private Investment in Road Safety  Read more...

Icreases in Road Casualties in UK and USA Notable increases since the pandemic  Read more...

Safer vehicles

Will Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) live up to its promise? Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA), one of the most promising of these new features in terms of road safety, could fail to bring the hoped-for benefits, but in this opinion piece Graziella Jost from ETSC expores why this may not be the case.?  Read more...

e-Call SOS National Highways has some very useful explanations of the main benefits of eCall,   Read more...

Safer drivers

National Highways Motorway Driving Campaign  Read more...

Speed management

Speed Management Webinar Series Throughout the month of June, Agilysis will be running an all new series of webinars looking at the latest evidence and highlighting key areas of interest in Road Safety.   Read more...

"It's time to pay more attention to speeding" TRL is calling for better speed control, due to speed’s centrality in the management of risk on all types of roads. This coincides with the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) adoption of a more accurate reporting system  Read more...

Community safety

School streets: putting children and the planet first ‘School streets’ schemes have increased five-fold in less than four years and deliver low-cost interventions for cleaner, safer journeys to schools world-wide, according to new global analysis by the Child Health Initiative’s Global Advocacy Hub.  Read more...

Child safety

The Safety Delivered signature road safety programme launches in India The Safety Delivered signature road safety programme launches in India for the first time   Read more...

Alcohol and drugs

Drink-Driving: A Road Safety Manual for Decision-Makers and Practitioners WHO has published a revised edition of the drink driving guide for policy-makers and practitioners  Read more...

Post-crash response

Connected Safety & Post Crash Response’ Our expert panels talk directly from and communications centres around the country to show you behind the scenes and discuss the applications for enhancing safety.  Read more...