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- EuroRAP Results 2010: Saving Lives for Less
Britain's finances may be exhausted but savings in the cost of road crashes costing 1.5% of GDP and worth GBP18bn annually are readily achievable.
- KiwiRAP Star Ratings
The New Zealand Transport Minister has welcomed new road safety ratings. The report shows that 28% of travel occurs on our 4-star roads.
- Pacific Corridor Safety Inspections Complete
A 3,300km road safety inspection of the Pacific Corridor, running through 7 Mesoamerican countries from Mexico to Panama, has been completed.
- TEN-T has Unacceptably High Safety Risk
Less than a third of the Trans-European Road Network (TEN-T), meets the best possible safety standard.
- A Plan to Prevent Almost 80,000 Deaths and Serious Injuries in Vietnam
A plan that has the potential to prevent almost 80,000 road crash deaths and serious injuries over 20 years
- AMZS Wins EuroRAP Star Performer Award
The Slovenian motoring club, AMZS, received the EuroRAP best performer award during the Association’s General Assembly.
- Road Safety Inspections in Paraguay Complete
The iRAP Philippines Technical Working Group has developed a plan that will see up to 4,500 km of high risk roads assessed and opportunities for their improvement devised during the next 12 months.
- iRAP in Tanzania
Road safety inspections of a 3,400km network of roads, accounting for approximately half of Tanzania’s paved network, have now been completed.
- Asian Development Bank to Tackle Road Safety
Global Road Safety Ambassador Michelle Yeoh has urged multilateral development banks to make road safety a greater priority, and use their vast lending capacity as a force for good.
- Planning to Save Lives in Andhra Pradesh
iRAP safety assessments of 3 demonstration corridors in the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh are underway.
- Experts Review iRAP
As part of ongoing efforts to ensure iRAP is making the most of current research and thinking to help save lives, a group of leading experts has met to review the programme.
- FIA Conference Week
Delegates from motoring clubs around the world gathered in Italy during May to hear about the latest news from iRAP, which is now active in more than 60 countries.
- The iRAP road safety inspection vehicle has visited Nicaragua
The iRAP road safety inspection vehicle has visited Nicaragua as part of the Pacific Highway Corridor assessment.
- Safe Roads for Development
This report highlights the vital importance of designing, building and managing road infrastructure safely.
- Road Safety Toolkit Article
Read about the Road Safety Toolkit and 10 ways to prevent road death and serious injury in Vision Zero International magazine.
- iRAP Philippines
iRAP Philippines got off to a great start today.
- FIA Conference Week Forum
iRAP will host a forum on the Decade of Action for Road Safety in May 2010 at the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) annual conference. The FIA's members represent more than 100 million motorists and their families worldwide.
- New Road Safety Toolkit
It has a fresh new look and the content has been expanded to include new information.
- Preventing Thousands of Deaths and Injuries in Uganda
A preliminary assessment in Uganda identified opportunities to prevent more than 13,000 deaths and serious injuries.
- Making the Meso Americano Highway Safe
Plans are underway to improve a vital link between seven Central American countries.
- Victoria is Building Safe Roads
In 2009, the Australian State of Victoria recorded its lowest road toll in history. The ground breaking Safer Road Infrastructure Program has been an integral part of the success.
- Save the Date
iRAP is planning a series of workshops and training courses for 2010.
- Join the iRAP Team
As a result of growing demand for our programmes worldwide, iRAP is seeking to appoint an experienced Road Safety Engineer to the Asia Pacific team.
- iRAP Nominates for Award
iRAP has nominated for the Institute of Transportation Engineers Edmund R Ricker award for outstanding contribution to the field of traffic safety.
- iRAP Prepares for the Decade of Action for Road Safety
As the United Nations prepares for its March 2010 meeting in New York, we look forward to a commitment to a Decade of Action for Road Safety.
- US$540 Million for Safe and Sustainable Transport in Peru
Preventing deaths and injuries is central to a new 5-year, large-scale program of improvements to Peru’s national roads.
- An Opportunity to Save Lives in Tanzania
iRAP inspections of high-risk roads in Tanzania are now underway.
- iRAP Pilot Project in Korea
iRAP and the Korea Transport Institute (KOTI) have begun a feasibility project that will assess safety along key highways in the Republic of Korea.
- Strengthening Support for Africa
To help meet the demand for iRAP projects in Southern and Eastern Africa, Petro Kruger will be assisting the iRAP team.
- Safety Rating England’s Trunk Road Network
A new study that can help make Britain’s roads the ‘safest in the world' found that two-thirds of English trunk road single carriageways rate just 2-stars.
- A Family of RAP Nations in Every Region
Consultations continue on Developing Our Membership, the iRAP proposal to create a new membership structure for organisations participating in the programme.
- EuroRAP Wins Prince Michael Award
EuroRAP has been recognised for its outstanding contribution to road injury prevention, receiving a prestigious Prince Michael Award.
- Rob McInerney Appointed iRAP Global CEO
As Chief Executive Officer, Rob McInerney will work closely with iRAP's global partners to help transform the world's high risk roads.
- Inaugural Eastern and Southern European Workshop
Participants from eight countries took part in the first EuroRAP workshop for Southern and Eastern European nations in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
- iRAP Gets Underway in India
iRAP is helping to transform a stretch of National Highway 1 in India into the country's first ‘‘greener and safer'' highway corridor.
- 28% of the European Union Road Network has Unacceptably High Risk
As part of its Road Safety Atlas Project, EuroRAP has published the most comprehensive route by route analysis of road safety risk across Europe.
- A Family of RAP Nations in Every Region
Ahead of the Decade of Action for Road Safety, iRAP has issued a consultation paper proposing a new membership structure for organisations participating in the programme.
- iRAP Wins Katahira Award
iRAP has won the prestigious Katahira Award for best technical paper at the 13th REAAA conference.
- Michelle Yeoh and Bill Clinton Support iRAP in Decade of Action
Make Roads Safe ambassador Michelle Yeoh has met with Bill Clinton to launch a $10 million scheme to help iRAP improve road safety in developing countries.
- Plan to Prevent 32,000 Deaths and Serious Injuries in Malaysia
Minister for Transport Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat has thrown his support behind a plan that could prevent 1 in 3 deaths and serious injuries.
- Commitment to Safety in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Inter American Development Bank (IDB) commits to road safety at Clinton Global Initiative in New York.
- iRAP Paraguay Officially Begins
iRAP Paraguay will assess some 4,000km of national highways and aims to help prevent the 845 road deaths that occur each year in the country.
- iRAP Asia Pacific Workshop
Participants from 16 countries took part in the second annual iRAP Asia Pacific Workshop in Singapore.
- Targeting High-risk Roads in Uganda
In a country where 15 pedestrians and 20 car occupants are killed or seriously injured each day, improving the safety of Uganda's roads is an imperative.
- New CEO in Latin America and the Caribbean
iRAP has appointed Julio Urzúa to the newly created position of CEO iRAP, Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Half of Britain’s Road Deaths
An assessment of 45,000km of roads across Britain has found that busy A roads – which take volumes of traffic at all hours between towns and villages – represent the highest risk.
- Building Road Safety Capability in Vietnam
A survey of 3,500km of Vietnam's high-risk roads using the latest digital imaging technology has been completed.
- How We Rate Roads For Safety
Star Rating Roads For Safety explains the concepts, process, and science of assessing infrastructure for the risk of death and serious injury.
- Safe Road Design
Europe can cut its toll of road deaths and serious injuries by a third simply by investing in better road design.
- iRAP Serbia
iRAP Serbia has published a 4.3 billion Dinar (US$ 64 million) plan that can prevent more than 5,500 deaths and injuries.
- Regional Collaboration
EuroRAP recently hosted 65 attendees from 27 countries at its 7th General Assembly and 20th Technical Committee and Members Plenary Sessions.
- Delayed Investment Will Cost More
AusRAP Star Ratings were integral to a recent independent review of more than 4,500km of South Australia's strategic highway network.
- Global Knowledge Sharing
An iRAP workshop featured at the FIA Conference Week in Argentina, which hosted delegates from more than 45 FIA clubs from around the world.
- Preventing 100,000 Deaths and Serious Injuries in Kenya
A $US100 million plan that could cut road crash deaths and serious injuries by 25% has been prepared by iRAP Kenya.
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