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| | | | The International Transport Forum (ITF) published recently a new Report titled The Safe System Approach in Action with the active participation of NTUA. Road crashes kill over 1.3 million people every year worldwide and seriously injure millions more. A Safe System approach to road safety can drastically reduce road deaths – but how can it actually be put in place? This Report provides experience-based guidance on implementing the Safe System approach worldwide.   | | | | | Latest Developments | | | | | | | Τhe European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) has published the 43rd PIN Flash Report titled Reducing Child Deaths on European Roads. This report examines the latest data on child road deaths from across the EU and other countries that
form part of ETSC’s Road Safety Performance Index (PIN) programme. It
also looks at the main measures for reducing the risks to children
including mobility policies and improved infrastructure, child restraint
systems, vehicle safety, helmet use, pre-hospital care and licensing of
young drivers who, in some countries, are able to ride a moped or
scooter at the age of 14.   | | | | | | | | The Final Synthesis Report of the European Survey of Road Users’ Safety Attitudes (ESRA) has been published with the active contribution of NTUA, containing a wealth of information on road safety in 48 countries, based on the ESRA2 survey. The results of the survey were published through a series of Reports: 15 Thematic Reports on road safety topics, the Country Fact Sheets and the 2022 Main Report.   | | | | | | | | The World Road Association – PIARC recently published a Report titled “State of the Art in Road Design Standards“. The document aims to identify similarities and differences between the approaches adopted in different countries
and evaluates the possible need of their adaptation to the requirements
of a rapidly changing world in the field of road transport systems: new
technologies, changes in mobility modes (new propulsion techniques, new
personal transport mode, and connected and autonomous driving) and
availability of multiple diffused data sources.  | | | | | Our Publications | | | | | The 6th International Symposium for Highway Geometric Design (ISHGD) took place with great success in Amsterdam on 29 June 2022. The Symposium managed to encourage the continuous improvement of highway geometric design
and focused on the latest breakthrough practices relating to highway
engineering in their different life phases, including daily operational
effects and safe highway designs.  NTUA actively contributed with the following presentations and papers... Click here for all NTUA presentations... | | | | | | | | The Research Institute of Human Factors in Road Safety together with Faculty of Social Sciences at Bar Ilan Center University co-organised with great success the 30th Annual Conference of Road Safety,
which took place online on 28 July 2022. Thirteen Israeli lecturers and
six lecturers from US, UK, Australia, Germany, Greece and Italy presented their original research on this international scientific conference.  NTUA actively contributed with the following presentation : | | | | | | | | | | The EU-funded Horizon 2020 project Levitate (Societal Level Impacts of Connected and Automated Vehicles) organized with great success the Project’s Final Conference, which was held in Brussels, on 25 May 2022. The LEVITATE partners shared the results achieved and the tools developed to assess
the potential societal impacts of connected and automated vehicles
(CAVs) on the mobility system and wider livability goals, including safety, the environment, the economy and society. A focused presentation of the Levitate CCAM Policy Support Tool is also foreseen.   NTUA actively contributed with the following presentations : | | | | | | | | A paper titled “The
role of values in road safety culture: Examining the valuation of
freedom to take risk, risk taking and accident involvement in three
countries” authored by Tor-Olav Nævestad, Alexandra Laiou, Tova Rosenbloom, Rune Elvik, and George Yannis is published in Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour.
National focus on individual freedom versus paternalistic values is a
fundamental theme, which defines the status of traffic safety in
different countries. Linear and logistic regression model results
indicate that Greek drivers value freedom to take risk in traffic higher than drivers from Norway and Israel.
Greek drivers also expect higher levels of risk taking from other
drivers in their country, they report higher levels of risky driving
themselves, and are more often involved in accidents. Thus, it seems
that values have an important role in Road Safety Culture (RSC),
legitimizing and motivating risky driving, which are related to
accidents.  | | | | | | | | An NTUA Diploma Thesis called “Critical factors of pedestrians self-declared behaviour and safety in Greece” was recently presented by Alexandros Ntontis. For the purpose of this Diploma Thesis, two binary logistic regression models and a Structural Equation Model (SEM) were developed, using
data from the second edition of the ESRA survey. The results
showed that a pedestrian who will engage more frequently in crossing the
road with red pedestrian light is more likely to also engage in
crossing the road at places other than at a nearby pedestrian crossing.   | | | | | Upcoming Events | | | | | The Horizon 2020 project HADRIAN (Holistic Approach for Driver Role Integration and Automation Allocation for European Mobility Needs) issued recently the 2nd Newsletter,
with updates on the main project activities, focusing on studying the
effects of haptic feedback, optimized head-up displays, adding
predictability of the automated drive, and improved visual and auditory
display elements and many more – all in the context of a holistic view on automated driving.  | | | | | | | | The Forum of European Road Safety Research Organisations (FERSI) is organising the 2022 Road Safety Conference which will take place on 6-7 October 2022 in Hague, Netherlands.
This highly interesting Conference focuses on the exchange of national
and regional experiences and implemented evidence-based road safety
measures, both positive and negative ones. There will be a specific
focus on the road to successful implementation, including overcoming the
barriers encountered along the way.  | | | | | | | | The Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) is organising the Global Regional Road Safety Observatories (GRRSO) Dialogue on Powered Two-Wheeler Safety, that will be held as a hybrid event (in Manila, Philippines and online) on 11-12 October 2022. The
event will bring together an unprecedented range of global experts and
practitioners striving to address deaths and serious injuries resulting
from motorcycle crashes. Additionally, it will provide a unique
opportunity to address issues relating to countries and cities where
powered two-wheelers are the predominant form of transport.  | | | | | | | | The European Commission funded Baseline project (Collection of Key Performance Indicators for Road Safety in the EU) organises the Road Safety KPIs Conference which will be held as a hybrid event (in Brussels and online), on 19 October 2022.
The results of the extensive data collection and analysis performed in
the EU countries will be presented covering all 8 KPIs defined at the EU
road safety strategic action plan: Speed, Alcohol, Distraction, Safety
belt, Helmet, Vehicle safety, Infrastructure and Post-crash care.  | | | | | | | | 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 Master Programme overview for the conference has been published.  | | | |
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