In support of advocacy and action for the upcoming Fourth United Nations Road Safety Week (8-14 May 2017), the World Health Organization (WHO) has recently released a summary publication on evidence-based approaches to prevent speed-related road trauma. This new publication, “Managing Speed”, can be downloaded from the WHO website. UN Road Safety Week is a […]
The annual Lifesavers Conference, which will bring together more than 2,100 road safety participants from across the United States of America and beyond, is taking place in Charlotte, US from 26 – 28 March 2017. The Lifesavers Conference brings together a combination of public health and safety professionals, researchers, advocates, practitioners and students committed to […]
The Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety will hold its Third General Assembly on Thursday 6 April 2017 during the Fifth Global Meeting of Nongovernmental Organizations Advocating for Road Safety and Road Victims in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Please find the General Assembly Agenda in English, Spanish and French. Comments should be submitted to admin@roadsafetyngos.org. There […]
Over the past decades, FedEx has played a leading role in supporting improving road safety efforts around the world. FedEx has established a Road Safety Award that recognize achievements and commitment to road safety globally. Every other year, outstanding nongovernmental organizations are recognized through the award. The award is organized and managed by the Global Alliance […]
Alliance member the Eastern Alliance for Safe and Sustainable Transport (EASST), has launched an online learning tool on occupational road safety in collaboration with Cranfield University and the IRU Academy. Road Safety at Work: Online Course for Managers focuses on fleet management and occupational road safety. Approximately one in three road accidents take place when people are driving […]
We hereby invite all members to prepare a poster with an example of your work and/or best practice from your work. This must have taken place within the past two years (since the last Global Meeting). We will display one poster per organization and there will be time set aside for you to present and […]
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals have set a strong impetus for us to increase and enhance our efforts on improving the road safety situation, especially at the national and regional levels. More than half of global road traffic fatalities occur in the Asia Pacific region with 34 per cent of the deaths in Asia […]
The Fourth UN Global Road Safety Week (UNGRSW) will take place from 8-14 May 2017. The theme for the Week is reducing speed and features the slogan: “Save Lives – #SlowDown”. Statistics show that a 5% cut in average speed can result in a 30% reduction in the number of fatal road accidents. The #SlowDown […]
The Alliance is excited to welcome the two new members who joined in February: Woman & Child Welfare Society, India is based in Odisha, Cuttack (WCWS). It is committed to improving road safety by developing relevant rigorous awareness campaigns and mobilizing the authorities for emergency medical care to road accident victims across the state. In 2016 […]
The 2017 Global Road Safety Film Festival took place from 20 – 21 February in Geneva, in conjunction with the 2017 Annual Inland Transport Committee (ITC) Meeting. Alliance member Road Safe Russia received the award for Road Safety Innovation for their film Jawsy. Jawsy was a centerpiece of a large-scale social campaign by the State Road Traffic Inspectorate […]
On 3 February 2017, Fedex and the Alliance released a video promoting the Alliance Advocate program. The video shows highlights from the 2016 training in Memphis in August 2016. Interviews with the Alliance Road Safety Advocates demonstrate the diverse road safety environments in their home countries and how the program has helped them to focus […]
The Fourth UN Global Road Safety Week is focusing on speed management and takes place on 8-14 May 2017 globally. The week is being prepared and aims to quickly mobilize the global road safety community into action. We are looking for a selection of images representing a range of scenarios from around the world to […]
In addition to the pre-meeting training and the Global Meeting, we are also offering two further days of training on Saturday 1 April and Sunday 2 April. The sessions are, of course, led by experts in their fields and are based on topics highlighted as significant to Alliance Members. Participants in each session will be […]
Alliance member Amend will receive USD 1.7 million over three years to fund their School Area Road Safety Assessments and Improvements (SARSAI) program in 10 African countries (Benin, Botswana, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, Tanzania, and Zambia). Worldwide, over 1.2 million people die in road crashes every year. The world’s highest road traffic injury rates […]
The Association for Safe International Road Travel (ASIRT) celebrated its 20th Anniversary on 5 December 2016 at the Italian Embassy in Washington, D.C. The event, “Vision 20/20: Looking Back, Looking Forward”, brought together over 250 ASIRT friends and supporters, including road safety experts from U.S. Government agencies, members of the corporate, non-profit, and international diplomatic […]
Alliance member FEVR has appealed to the Greek Government in an open letter to reconsider plans to reduce fines for traffic violations. The appeal followed comments made by Deputy Minister of Citizen Protection, Nikolaos Toskas, in an interview with a Greek publication and revealed that fines for some violations could be reduced by 50%. In their letter, […]
The 2017 Australasian Road Safety Conference (ARSC2017), hosted by the Australasian College of Road Safety (ACRS), Austroads, ARRB and Curtin Monash Accident Research Centre (C-MARC), will be held in Perth from 10-12 October 2017. ARSC2017 is calling for submission of Abstracts ahead of the conference. The deadline date is 26 February 2017. Find out more […]
The International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) has just launched Spanish and Portuguese versions of its “3-Star or Better” advocacy brochure. “How 3-star or better roads can cut death and trauma” is a four page brochure, also available in English, which aims to support iRAP members and road safety professionals in their meetings with key policy […]
The Fifth Global Meeting of Nongovernmental Organizations Advocating for Road Safety and Road Victims will take place in April. In the past week, Executive Director Lotte Brondum visited Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The purpose of this visit was to meet and prepare for the meeting with representatives from the Government, visit the venue at Sama-Sama Hotel, […]
The Alliance is excited to welcome the new member who joined in January: ProtectMD Foundation, Moldova, was founded in 2011 with the main objective of promoting “democratic values and sense of justice” through information, road safety education and promotion of strategies to improve safety, Their “Road Safety Education for Parents” project, in partnership with the […]
