| | | Latest Developments | | | | | The World Bank Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF) has published a report titled “Integrating Safety into Road Design”.
This Guide has been produced in response to the ever-growing need for
safe road and roadside design to save lives from road crashes. The Guide focuses on elements of safe road and roadside designs
for road networks that can provide safe mobility to all road users, as
well as complementary changes to improve speeds, vehicle safety, road
user behaviors, and post-crash care.  | | | | | | | | The Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI) released recently two new handbooks titled “How to Implement Street Transformations” and “How to Evaluate Street Transformations“, which can offer cities a new way of implementing and evaluating pop-up or interim street transformations with a focus on community-driven street designs. GDCI has also announced it’s call for applications for the first Streets for Kids Leadership Accelerator,
that aims to create a global cohort of city leaders in order to hone
their knowledge to create change for kids in their cities. The
Accelerator will bring together 60 changemakers from 20 global cities to
participate in an eight-month virtual professional leadership program.  | | | | | | | | FedEx funded an online package of new Resources for 5-star RAPs,
which has launched to support road assessment programmes (RAPs) around
the world eliminate high-risk roads. These resources are aligned with
the UN High-level Meeting of Road Safety, as countries embrace implementation of the Global Plan for the Decade of Action for safer national roads that save lives. The Resources offer guidance on how to develop an effective programme and includes 140 award-winning examples, templates and downloadable materials, drawn from the best practice of partners world-wide.  | | | | | | | | The World Road Association – PIARC published a Report titled “Road Related Data and How to Use it“. 20 recommendations, referenced within the report, provide a clear framework for road administrations to systematically compare their current practices and develop tailored action plans.
These also complemented by a further 4 recommendations for PIARC to
consider, to supporting member organizations in their journey to deliver
better services through smarter use of data.  | | | | | | | | The European Road Transport Research Advisory Council (ERTRAC) published the Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility Roadmap, as part of the ERTRAC Roadmaps. According to the Report, in 2050, vehicles will have 100% real-time connectivity on the relevant road network
and the transport management system will have the appropriate quality
of service level, also for remote operation. All newly registered
vehicles will have automation but in different levels.   | | | | | Statistics Corner | | | | | The Hellenic Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport produced for the first time ever Road Safety Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for all key crash risk factors in Greece, with the active contribution of NTUA.
The five KPIs related to road user behavior concern speeding, seatbelt
use, helmet use, driving under the influence of alcohol and distraction
and demonstrate the basic causes of road crashes in Greece. These KPIs
have been incorporated at the new National Road Safety Plan of Greece
in order to identify key road safety problems in Greece and to
determine the respective solutions, but also for the setting of the 8
road safety KPI targets for the decade (e.g. helmet wearing rate from
79% today, to 90% in 2025 and 95% in 2030).  | | | | | | | | The International Road Federation (IRF) released the 59th edition of the IRF World Road Statistics 2022 (WRS2022), with data now open to all for free through the IRF WRS Data Warehouse platform, thanks to the generous support of the TotalEnergies Foundation and Michelin Corporate Foundation.
The IRF WRS 2022 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 2022 includes
the latest data covering years 2015 to 2020, with the active
contribution of NTUA for the Greek data. It includes over 200 road and
transport-sector related indicators across 11 sections, covering more
than 200 countries and territories.   | | | | | Our Publications | | | | | | | | | | | An NTUA Diploma Thesis called “Identification of driver’s risky behavior level and duration with machine learning techniques”
was recently presented by Theodoros Garefalakis. For the purpose of
this Diploma Thesis, high resolution data related to driving behavior
were collected through a driving simulator experiment. In the first part
of the analysis, four machine learning algorithms were developed to
classify driver behavior into one of three risk levels, with the ‘Random
Forests’ algorithm scoring the highest performance. In the context of
investigating the influence of driving factors to identify driving
behavior, the distance traveled, speed and speed limit emerged as the
most important. In the second part of the analysis, the effect of
driving characteristics on driving duration at different stages was
examined through three regression algorithms. The results showed that the maximum speed was the most important variable, which negatively affects the driving duration at each safety level.   | | | | | Upcoming Events | | | | | The Horizon 2020 research project SHOW (SHared automation Operating models for Worldwide adoption) has recently released the SHOW 5th Newsletter.
The Newsletter provides information on the latest outcomes of the
project. Beyond technical developments, additional pilot sites have
kicked off their real-life operations and will start collecting feedback from the project’s local teams and from the citizens using it’s services.  | | | | | | | | The European Commission and the Agência Nacional de Inovação (ANI) together with the European Transport Research Platforms ACARE, ALICE, CEDR, ECTP, ERRAC, ERTRAC, ETRA and Waterborne, are organising the Transport Research Arena Conference (TRA2022) which will be held in Lisbon, on 14-17 November 2022.
The pillars of the Conference will be the scientific excellence,
research and innovation challenges, the latest technological and
industrial developments and innovative policies regarding the European
Transport Research and Innovation and the cooperation of Europe with
other continents.  The detailed Programme for the conference has been published.   | | | | | | | | POLIS, the European Cities Network, is organising the 2022 Annual Polis Conference, which will take place in Brussels, on 30 November and 1 December 2022.
The POLIS Annual Conference provides an opportunity for cities and
regions to showcase their transport achievements to a large audience of
mobility experts, practitioners and decision-makers. Urban Road Safety
is a key conference priority. Registrations are now open.  | | | | | | | | The European Commission is organising the EU Road Safety Results Conference which will be held as a hybrid event (in Brussels and online), on 8 December 2022.
The Conference is an opportunity to engage with EU Member State
authorities and all stakeholders across the road safety community. In
addition, it will allow participants to exchange views and experiences
on the efforts to reach Vision Zero.  | | | | |
