Afyonkarahisar (Afyon) is a city of around 175,000 people in western Turkey. In June 2010 it had been selected as one of two pilot cities in Turkey in which projects would be conducted by GRSP through the Bloomberg Philanthropies funded Road Safety in 10 Countries programme. At that time, wearing a seat-belt was simply not…
An early adopter of advanced fleet safety policies, GRSP member and Swiss multi-national Nestle, developed its ‘Safe Driving’ programme in 2008 in alignment with work then being undertaken by European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) and its PRAISE project (Preventing Road Accidents and Injuries for the Safety of Employees). The result for Nestle was a programme…
During March in Vietnam, the Ministries of Transport, Public Security, Science & Technology, and Trade & Industry issued joint circular number 06/2013. The circular significantly strengthens and improves regulations related to motorcycle and bicycle helmet production, import, sales, and use. The issuance of this circular is expected to have a significant impact on road traffic…
We have a far clearer picture of the number of road deaths there are versus the number of serious injuries. Current estimates suggest that for every road death there are 10 serious injuries. The question, however, across borders or even from city to city, is “what is a serious injury?”. Without a common definition, no…
STUTTGART: Better mobility in European cities: CIVITAS ‘2MOVE2’ project launched CIVITAS is an EU initiative for supporting and evaluating the implementation of integrated sustainable and energy efficient urban transport strategies in European cities. The current phase (CIVITAS PLUS II) focuses on designing, implementing and testing innovative strategies for sustainable urban transport aiming a small number…
Amsterdam – The International SOS Foundation and Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) announce a collaboration to help mitigate road accidents faced by business travellers and expatriates working abroad. The recently released World Health Organization ‘Global Status Report on Road Safety’ states that 1.24 million people are killed each year on our roads. This equates to…
The World Health Organization today launched the ‘Global status report on road safety 2013’. This report, the second in a series, presents information from 182 countries, accounting for almost 99% of the world’s population, and will serve as the baseline for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020. The report analyzes to what extent…
As the EU MENA programme enters its second year, beneficiary countries are finalizing action plans for multi-sector and multi-disciplinary road safety pilot projects under the supervision of GRSP experts. Tunisia is one of the beneficiary countries, the planned activity for which is entitled ‘Design and Establishment of a Road Safety Management System for SORETRAS’ (Sfax…
For the Cambodian Red Cross, road safety is an important part of the humanitarian mandate to assist the most vulnerable. In addition to serving as an auxiliary to the public authorities, the Cambodian Red Cross is a member of the National Road Safety Committee (NRSC), placing the National Society in a key role to tackle…
On February 13 and 14, 2013, road safety specialists from Iran, Germany, UK, Italy, Lebanon, Turkey, India and Australia, amongst others, met for the ‘Second Razavi International Congress on Road Safety’ in the city of Mashhad, Iran. In collaboration with WHO – EMRO, the event was organized by the Razavi Hospital, one of the country’s…
‘Addressing the Safety of Vulnerable Road Users’ Workshop March 12 – 13, 2013, Brussels, Belgium Pursuant to the activities held within the framework of our EU financed project, ‘EuroMed Transport: Support to the MENA Road Safety Programme’, the Global Road Safety Partnership for the Middle East and North Africa (GRSP MENA) has the pleasure to…
The Global Road Safety Partnership wishes to announce the launch of the Call for Proposals for Round 3 of the Road Safety Grants Programme. Initiated in early 2012, the grants programme is part of the Road Safety in Ten Countries (RS10) programme, funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies and managed and administered by the Global Road Safety…
The use of sub-standard helmets by motorcycle riders is widespread in Vietnam. According to a World Health Organization study in 2011, only 18% of helmets met the official Vietnamese helmet standard criteria. These sub-standard helmets offer little protection for motorcycle riders in the event of a crash. As part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies funded Road…
During 2012 in Sakhalin Oblast, just off the east coast of Russia, there were 267 recorded road traffic crashes involving pedestrians. An increase of 6% from 2011. 30 died. More than 250 were seriously injured. Many occured at night, and of those, almost all were caused by low visibility of the pedestrian. In a dynamic…
Throughout 2012, Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) worked in close cooperation with the Russian Red Cross (RRC) on developing their first ever road safety advocacy project. GRSP undertook the technical guidance role in assisting the RRC as part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies funded Road Safety in Ten Countries (RS10) programme. “145-year-old Russian Red Cross has…
