As the world joins hands to make 2011-2020 the 3447 UN 3439 Decade of Action for Road Safety, the Transport Research Foundation (TRF), the parent of 777 TRL, has been selected as a new Centre of Excellence.
It was appointed by iRAP (the International Roads Assessment Programme), a UK charity that co-chairs the work on infrastructure for the UN Decade of Action, and which has established a new way to inspect and measure the safety of roads. It recommends high priority improvements which will save the most lives for the money available.
Chairman of iRAP, John Dawson, said: “The TRF enables world-class research on transport and safety problems not least in low and middle income countries.”
Signing the agreement at the UK launch of the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety, Susan Sharland, chief cxecutive TRF, said: “This agreement will enable cooperation and collaboration for road safety. We support the Decade of Action and fully endorse iRAP’s vision of a world free of high risk roads. In the last decade our research has helped build the measurements of safety that iRAP uses. Now we look forward to helping new countries, particularly in the Middle East and Africa, develop programmes, as well as continuing to help with research.”
During the Decade of Action 2011-2020 iRAP has set out its goal to help inspect some 3.5 million kilometres of the world’s busiest roads where most road deaths are concentrated and develop investment plans that countries can afford to save a million deaths and serious injuries. Simple engineering measures such as footpaths, crossings, road markings, road shoulder treatments and safety fencing typically top the list of iRAP recommendations.
• See also Safety Measures this issue of Eurofile.
It was appointed by iRAP (the International Roads Assessment Programme), a UK charity that co-chairs the work on infrastructure for the UN Decade of Action, and which has established a new way to inspect and measure the safety of roads. It recommends high priority improvements which will save the most lives for the money available.
Chairman of iRAP, John Dawson, said: “The TRF enables world-class research on transport and safety problems not least in low and middle income countries.”
Signing the agreement at the UK launch of the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety, Susan Sharland, chief cxecutive TRF, said: “This agreement will enable cooperation and collaboration for road safety. We support the Decade of Action and fully endorse iRAP’s vision of a world free of high risk roads. In the last decade our research has helped build the measurements of safety that iRAP uses. Now we look forward to helping new countries, particularly in the Middle East and Africa, develop programmes, as well as continuing to help with research.”
During the Decade of Action 2011-2020 iRAP has set out its goal to help inspect some 3.5 million kilometres of the world’s busiest roads where most road deaths are concentrated and develop investment plans that countries can afford to save a million deaths and serious injuries. Simple engineering measures such as footpaths, crossings, road markings, road shoulder treatments and safety fencing typically top the list of iRAP recommendations.
• See also Safety Measures this issue of Eurofile.
