RoadSafe News – December 2020

International news

Roads to Recovery: a Sustainable Mobility for a Sustainable Future - presentations available.

Under the banner Roads to Recovery: a Sustainable Mobility for a Sustainable Future, The International Road Federation (IRF) held its online conference on 12 November to discuss recovery post-COVID and its implications for the road sector.  Read more...

Multilateral Development Banks Increase Commitment

Ten Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) signed a high-level joint statement on road safety , under the auspices of the World Health Organization and the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration.   Read more...

6th Global Interactive Forum on Traffic and Safety

The International Road Federation (IRF) is pleased to support the 6th Global Interactive Forum on Traffic Safety being organized by the International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences (IATSS) in Tokyo, Japan.   Read more...

ESRA Webinar Series

ESRA (E-Survey of Road Users’ Attitudes) is a joint international initiative of research centres and road safety institutes across the world, initiated and coordinated by Vias institute in Brussels and in cooperation with a core group of partners from 11 countries.   Read more...

Global Meeting of Regional Road Safety Observatories

The Global Meeting of Regional Road Safety Observatories will take place between the 8 - 10 December 2020.  Read more...

Mexico’s ‘Right to Mobility’ amendment could save thousands of lives

In a ground breaking move for national road safety policy, Mexico has elevated to their constitution a universal right to safe mobility  Read more...

Save Lives Technical Package

Save LIVES: an evidence-based technical package of advice is well-worth reviewing.  Read more...

UK news

Constituency Road Safety Dashboard

The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Transport Safety has met with Roads Minister Baroness Vere to discuss the government’s policy on road safety and to coincide with this, PACTS and Agilysis have launched the Constituency Road Safety Dashboard.  Read more...

What Kills Most on the Road?

What kills most on the roads? New analysis for the new transport agenda uses graphics and charts to show the total casualties associated with each mode of transport, including those of other road users.  Read more...

Festival of Road Safety: presentations now available.

The programme for the Festival of Road Safety comprises an exciting mix of pre-recorded keynote presentations, live discussions sessions and workshops, and podcasts.  Read more...

Driving at work

New campaign focusing on the mental health of commercial vehicle drivers

The CALM Driver is a collaboration between Driving for Better Business, the government-backed Highways England programme, and the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM).  Read more...

Is COVID-19 misinformation causing you to take unnecessary risks?

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced multiple different industries and organisations to adjust their normal working practices, introduce temporary measures and even relax certain regulations in a bid to help operations continue amidst unprecedented challenges.  Read more...

Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV)

Autonomous delivery bot Kar-go begins trials in UK

Delivery bot Kar-go has become the first autonomous delivery vehicle to travel on the roads in the UK in a trail in London.  Read more...

Driver Training for Future Automated Vehicles

A new study by the University of Nottingham and the RAC Foundation suggests that behavioural training for drivers is paramount for the transition into the next stage of automated vehicles, known as level 3 automation1.  Read more...

Road Safety Management

Targets of #50by30 or better central to new Road Safety Strategies in UK and Australia

Two new road safety strategies have been launched with a target of fifty percent or better casualty reduction.   Read more...

Road Safety Calculator

A new tool that is being developed by GRSF with funding from the UK Aid, to support road safety strategy selection in low- and middle-income countries.   Read more...

Safer vehicles

Widely varying car safety standards highlighted

The hugely differing vehicle safety standards are highlighted in recent reports.  Read more...

Safer drivers

TIE – reduce risk and consequence content to include more BCTs

Road safety professionals involved in the production of pre-driver theatre and workshop education programmes should reduce the focus on risk and consequences, replacing this with ‘high potential’ behaviour change techniques (BCTs).  Read more...

Speed management

Vehicle speed compliance statistics for Great Britain: January to June 2020

This statistical release is a new quarterly release and is in addition to the annual Vehicle Speeds Compliance release.  Read more...

Forthcoming events

6th Global Interactive Forum on Traffic and Safety – 26 November 2020

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Conference 2020 – 2 December 2020

Young Driver Focus Conference. – 30 June 2021

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