| | | | The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) published the 17th edition of PIN Annual Report, with the active contribution of NTUA, presented at the 2023 ETSC Road Safety Performance Index Award event which took place with great success on 20 June 2023 in Brussels. The EU27 collectively reduced the number of road deaths by 22% over
the period 2012-2022. The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) has
awarded its 2023 Road Safety Performance Index (PIN) Award to Poland for
the first time, because the country cut road deaths by 47% between 2012
and 2022, a rate only bettered by Lithuania, last year’s winner.  | | | |
| Latest Developments |
| | | | The Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety launched, with the active contribution of NTUA, an accountability toolkit,
which is a set of practical, web-based tools. It offers tangible
steps to equip NGOs to hold their governments accountable for the safety
of all road users by reducing road deaths and injuries by 50% by 2030,
in alignment with the Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road
Safety 2021-2030 (Global Plan). The toolkit is a practical resource for
NGOs and other civil society advocates and is underpinned by five Priority Interventions that have been proven to be among the most effective in reducing road deaths and injuries.  | | | |
| | | | The Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) has recently released the FIA Road Safety Index, a tool that provides Organisations with a methodology to assess their road safety performance and calculate their safety footprint,
relying on a similar concept as the carbon footprint calculators. The
safety footprint of an Organisation refers to the number of fatalities
and seriously injured persons as a result of road crashes occurring
within its entire value chain. Designed on the basis of a long-term
commitment, the index offers a systematic approach to identify, measure
and follow up road safety results from a value chain perspective. | | | |
| | | | The World Road Association – PIARC
launched an ambitious PIARC Knowledge Exchange project, aiming at
sharing knowledge about road safety, with the active contribution of NTUA,
especially within Low and Middle Income Countries with limited
resources but also in more developed economies with different needs and
priorities. The theme of this month refers to Speed, as presented by the PIARC Technical Committee 3.1 "Road Safety" member John Barrell.
Throughout the year, PIARC will focus on the Safe System approach,
addressing safe roads and roadsides, safe road users, safe vehicles and
safe speeds.   | | | |
| Statistics Corner |
| | | | The International Road Federation (IRF) released the 60th edition of the IRF World Road Statistics 2023 (WRS2023), 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 2023 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 2023 includes
the latest data covering years 2016 to 2021, 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 . Follow the launching event on 28 September 2023. | | | |
| Our Publications |
| | | | NTUA Professor George Yannis contributed actively at the Scientific Workshop on: “Should we promote a 30 km/hr speed limit in cities?” organised by the Chair of Transportation Systems Engineering of the Technical University of Munich (TUM).
which was held in Munich on July 6th, 2023. The Workshop hosted vivid
discussions from Key - Experts on the different dimensions and
perspectives of city-wide 30 km/h speed limit . Professor George Yannis contributed two key-note presentations: | | | |
| | | | The Horizon 2020 project i-DREAMS (smart Driver Environment Assesment and Monitoring System) organised its Final Event which was held in Brussels, on 26 April 2023. In this i-DREAMS Workshop the main accomplishments of the project for the role of human factors in transport safety were discussed. Results indicated that the integrated treatment of task complexity, coping capacity and risk can improve behavior and safety of all travellers and all transport modes, through unobtrusive and seamless behaviour monitoring. NTUA actively contributed with the following presentations: | | | |
| | | | The HADRIAN Symposium was held in Graz, Austria, on 9-10 May 2023, under the theme "Shaping automated driving for human mobility needs". The Horizon 2020 project HADRIAN
(Holistic Approach for Driver Role Integration and Automation
Allocation for European Mobility Needs) evaluated an holistic approach
to shape automated driving to meet societal mobility needs. Over the
last three years, the HADRIAN consortium investigated innovations within
this scope and tested and demonstrated them in driving simulators and
in real vehicles on test tracks and open roads. Results revealed that
the “Integrated fluid HMI” had a great improvement in takeover
performance and distraction prevention as well as outperformed with less
mental or cognitive effort, higher comfort in use, and control
feeling. NTUA actively contributed with the following presentations: | | | |
| | | | 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, organised with great success the Transport Research Arena Conference (TRA2022) which took place in Lisbon, on 14-17 November 2022. The pillars of the Conference were 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. Click here for all NTUA presentations... | | | |
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| | | | A NTUA Diploma Thesis titled “Investigating the influence of mobile phone use on driving behavior with Machine Learning analysis of imbalanced data” was recently presented by Konstantinos-Eirinaios Kaselouris. For classification and regression of mobile phone usage, telematics data from the OSeven telematics
company were used as collected from naturalistic driving
measurements. Mobile phone use was defined as an indicator of risky
behaviour and classification was performed on two levels of driving
behaviour (risky and not risky). Variables related to travel speed were found to be the most significant independent variables,
while according to the classification evaluation metrics, the most
appropriate model was considered to be that of ‘Linear Discriminant
Analysis’. | | | |
| | | | The Horizon 2020 research project SHOW (SHared automation Operating models for Worldwide adoption) has recently released the SHOW 7th Newsletter.
The Newsletter provides information on the latest outcomes of the
project. The sites had the opportunity to present their achievements in a
recent Review Meeting with the European Commission, where the
excellent work being done across the project, the results that are
beginning to emerge, and of course, the challenges to overcome to allow
the sites to fulfill their potential, were discussed. SHOW’s aim now is
to enhance urban mobility and automation by understanding people’s needs. | | | |
| Upcoming Events |
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| | | | The Hellenic Institute of Transportation Engineers (HITE) and the Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT/CERTH) are co-organizing the 11th International Congress on Transportation Research (ICTR 2023), which will be held on 20-22 September 2023, Heraklion, Greece. The spotlight theme of the 2023 Congress will be "Clean and Accessible to All Multimodal Transport". Special
focus will be given to innovative research and technological
developments for clean and accessible multimodal transportation in
Greece and worldwide. In this context, eight parallel workshops will
take place, providing sustainable, safe and inclusive transport
solutions for meeting the needs of people and ensuring efficient
transportation both within and between cities. | | | |
| | | | The World Road Association (PIARC) is organising the XXVIIth World Road Congress, which will be held on 2-6 October 2023, in Prague. The theme of the congress is "Together on the road again"
and will provide a unique opportunity to discuss in depth all subjects
related to road infrastructures and road transport. The program includes
ministerial sessions, 60 technical sessions covering all key aspects
and topics of road infrastructure, valuable poster sessions,
various specialised workshops, foresight sessions and much more. | | | |
| | | | The European Commission and the An Roinn Iompair (ARI) together with the European Transport Research Platforms ACARE, ALICE, CEDR, ECTP, ERRAC, ERTRAC, ETRA and Waterborne will organise the Transport Research Arena Conference (TRA2024) which will take place in Dublin, on 15-18 April 2024. The pillars of the Conference will be the safe
& inclusive transport, the sustainable mobility of people and
goods, the efficient & resilient systems and the collaborative
digitalisation regarding the European Transport Research and Innovation and the cooperation of Europe with other continents. | | | |
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