RoadSafe News – October 2021

International news

Streets for Life Progress across Eastern Europe and Central Asia,

Support for low-speed ‘Streets for Life’ is significant across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, with more than three-quarters of the public supporting school zone road speeds of 30km/h or lower.   Read more...

UK news

Project Edward - Fit for the Road

The 2021 Week of Action themed; 'Fit for the Road' focused on the application of The Safe System  Read more...

Vision Zero Engagement is launched in Essex

The Safer Essex Roads Partnership (SERP) officially commenced public engagement with the release of its draft strategy, detailing how Vision Zero could be achieved in Essex.  Read more...

Vision Zero: Kent’s ‘ambitious target’ to eliminate road deaths by 2050

Under the banner ‘Vision Zero’ it commits to a wide-ranging response to try to dramatically reduce deaths and serious injuries over the coming decades. Based on delivering a Safe System Approach. Community engagement is at the heart of this strategy; if Vision Zero is to succeed it will depend on Kent’s public sharing KCC’s ambition.  Read more...

Highway Code updated to create a herarchy of road users

The new version of the Code includes a "hierarchy of road users". This will ensure that people who can cause the most harm in a collision, such as those in vehicles, bear the "greatest responsibility to reduce the danger they may pose to others"  Read more...

Driving at work

Health and Safety Executive - New Driving for Work Guidance

The UK Health and Safety Executive launched its improved and expanded guidance for the way manage those who drive for work  Read more...

Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV)

Automation in transport - Leading the UK to a driverless future

he gap between technology development and automated vehicle deployment has been underestimated and the challenges involved with delivering autonomy have been far greater and more complex than first envisaged.  Read more...

Digitisation of Transport - Think Different

Digitisation is a key enabler for a transport system that is safe, clean, and efficient.  Read more...

Automated Driving System consumer ratings

Zenzic, the organisation dedicated to accelerating the self-driving revolution in the UK, has announced funding for a proof-of-concept consumer safety rating for Automated Driving Systems, via Thatcham Research  Read more...

Conferences and events

GB Festival of Road Safety 1-26 Nov

Road Safety GB has decided to run the Festival again in November 2021.  Read more...

Road Safety is the lead topic at international transport meeting

Road Safety is being considered during the opening session of the IRF annual autumn online conference under the theme “Innovation: Charting Pathways to Sustainable Mobility”.   Read more...

Zero carbon and zero road deaths - PACTS Conference

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Decade of Action

Good Practice Guide to Meaningful NGO Participation

The Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety (the Alliance) has launched its Good Practice Guide on Meaningful NGO Participation in the Field of Road Safety, demonstrating the unique and essential value of including NGOs in road safety policymaking and implementation.  Read more...

Young drivers

Technology promises large safety benefits for young drivers

Driving technology promises large safety benefits for young drivers  Read more...

Safer roads

Innovation Workshop

Over 700 registrations have already been received for the 2021 iRAP Innovation Workshop co-hosted with the Regional Road Safety Observatories  Read more...

Artificial Intelligence used in iRAP Assessments

Main Roads Western Australia and Anditi have revolutionized road safety assessments with an approach which automatically detects road infrastructure data applied on 2,000km of roads across the State.  Read more...

Australian innovation project leads world on automated data capture for RAP assessments

An iMOVE project is leading the way on innovative approaches to capturing road feature data for road safety Star Ratings. The initiative is being led by Transport for NSW (TfNSW) and includes the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), the International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) and Australian geospatial data experts, Anditi.  Read more...

Community safety

Successful Australian student road safety campaign launches across London

A road safety campaign created by a London College of Communication (LCC) student encouraging road users to consider other road users’ safety is featuring on more than 40 prominent London billboards in an initiative supported by FIA Foundation, alongside Transport for London, Zurich Insurance and Ocean Outdoors.  Read more...

Post-crash response

Reducing casualties through improved forensic techniques and vehicle design

proof of concept - to improve understanding of pedestrian injuries incurred as a result of a collision with a vehicle.  Read more...

Forthcoming events

Zero carbon and zero road deaths – 21 October 2021

GB Festival of Road Safety 2021 1-26 Nov – 1 November 2021

Young Driver Focus – 25 May 2022

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