EASST Road Safety Education Pack
The EASST Road SafetyEducation Pack is a global teaching resource that provides stimulating and engaging activities to introduce road safety messages and behaviours to kids. The pack has been developed in co-operation with our EASST Partners as well as highly experienced road safety experts including the UK Government’sThink! Campaign. It has been tailored to reflect the risks, challenges, and conditions in low and middle-income countries.
Split into three sections targeted at under 6s, 6-11 year olds and 12-14 year olds, the pack provides the resources needed to teach children and young people basic road safety principles in an age-appropriate way by using simple, fun, educational activities. It is currently available in 11 languages, with more in development. It can be tailored to local contexts, incorporating the logos of local organisations and NGOs, changing the idiom, names and illustrations as necessary. While the fundamental content and key messages remain the same.
It is also an excellent resource for parents who are currently homeschooling, as beyond the road safety messaging it develops skills such as art and creativity, critical thinking, reading and comprehension, and role play. For more information, visit the following website :https://www.easst.co.uk/easst-road-safety-education-pack/
Fleet Safety Management E-Course
Delivery drivers & truck drivers are amongst those key workers keeping us all going during the COVID 19 pandemic. Yet driving remains one of the most dangerous professions, with 1 in 3 road casualties involving someone driving for work.
EASST os offering business owners and managers that use vehicles for work 50% off its online fleet safety management course to help them develop an action plan that will keep their drivers safe. The course is available online 24/7 in English, Russian, Kazakh and Georgian .For more information, visit the following website : https://easstacademy.org/fleetsafety
Measures and activities taken in Republic of Serbia due to COVID-19
Taking into account the circumstances in the whole world, especially Europe, due to COVID-19 virus pandemic, all necessary measures and activities have been taken in the Republic of Serbia, in order to preserve the health of the entire population as well as the health of employees, users, partners ...
Basic information and recommendations have been included as: cleaning and disinfection of public areas and equipment; informing / training of employees on mitigating the spread of infection; measures to be taken in case of suspected illness; measures of isolation/self-isolation; guarantee of functioning…
Variable Message Signs on highways in Serbia
Having in mind emerging pandemic and the measures to prevent the outspread of the COVID-19 virus, as well as the campaign "Stay Home", PE "Roads of Serbia" is posting messages in Serbian and English language on VMS portals (Variable Message Signs) on highways in Serbia:
- Zaustavi COVID-19 – ostanikodkuće!
- Stop COVID-19 – Stay home!
PE “Roads of Serbia” is once more appealing to all traffic participants, pointing out that by staying at home they significantly contribute to the preservation of their health and the health of others thus preventing further spreading of the virus.
Information for Transit Gas stations
In order to inform drivers of heavy vehicles where they could stop to refuel, special flyers have been created and distributed to drivers with map and the list of Gas stations on transit routes in the Republic of Serbia.
The Gas stations working from 00-24 h for fuel supply of heavy vehicles in transit through Serbia.
For more information, visit the website of Roads of Serbia: www.putevi-srbije.rs
Enough is enough to road traffic crashes! Youth to mobilize for the Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety
On the 18th February 2020 more than 160 young leaders from 74 countries adopted the Global Youth Statement for Road Safety. The statement was based on the voices of 1500+ young people from around the world that took part in the Youth Consultations.
The statement was delivered during the World Youth Assembly by Global Youth Taskforce Member AllexAyub from Africa and again during the World Ministerial Conference by World Youth Assembly (WYA) Co-Chairperson Omnia el Omrani from Egypt.
The statement resonates with the youth’s cry, exclaiming “enough is enough”. The statement highlights the reality of today’s generation being born in a global road safety crisis with the added challenge of global decision-makers facing the issue with silence, inaction, and exclusion of the youth.
We are calling on decision-makers to start listening to the millions of voices calling for safer roads and safer mobility. The statement presents the glaring threats young road users face from different regions. The youth calls decision-makers to make proactive policies on; badly designed road infrastructure, lack of education and awareness, poor regulation and enforcement, and poor public transportation systems among others. Crucially, it illustrates the power of young people to act as change agents for road safety, through meaningful participation in decision-making and committing to take action. We are claiming our space
The Assembly was organized by a group of young leaders from across the world who represent different sector of global youth development, this group is known as the Global Youth Taskforce.
The movement of the Assembly will now become a Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety seeing young people from all around the world mobilize and champion global and local actions for road safety and cross-cutting issues. We call on decision-makers and stakeholders to invest in the Coalition and partner with the power and potential of youth.
The Assembly was initiated by YOURS – Youth for Road Safety. It was co-sponsored by the World Health Organization. Main partners to the Assembly were the Michelin Corporate Foundation, the Total Foundation and the Volvo Group.
See a full list of partners including network partners. Read more about the Assembly at www.wyaroadsafety.org
Building an evidence base for gender-sensitive transport planning in rural Tajikistan
Recently in honour of International Women’s Day 2020, EASST announced a new assignment with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), working with UNICEF Tajikistan, the Young Generation of Tajikistan (YGT), FIRE AID, and the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) to examine road risk in rural Tajik villages from a gender perspective and the role women can play in road safety leadership at a local level.
EASST partner, Dr. EvangelosBellos of NTUA and EASST Trustee, Kate McMahon, have been developing a travel pattern survey which will be implemented later this year across 7 jamoats (rural councils) situated along the Rogun and Nurobod road.
The project will build local road safety partnerships with local authorities, traffic police, schools, women, and children in the community to identify the main risks and transport needs.
For more information, visit the website of EASST:www.easst.co.uk
UNRSC meets to discuss road safety advocacy at the time of Covid-19
The UN Road Safety Collaboration (UNRSC) was due to hold its April meeting in New York, back-to-back with a UN General Assembly meeting where Member States were expected to ratify the 2030 extension to SDG target 3.6 to reduce road deaths and serious injuries by 50%. Because of the lockdown being implemented in many countries around the world the UN GA has been postponed. The UNRSC was hence hosted virtually for the first time on 16 April.
More than 130 participants discussed the success of the Third Global Ministerial Conferenceand how to advocate for road safety during Covid-19.Strong support was expressed by the group for a relaunching of the Stockholm Declaration when the pandemic response eases.
IRF (Geneva) stressed the need to focus on new stimulus packages as a means to advocate for safer roads. The project group 2 of UNRSC which is co-chaired by the IRF (Geneva) released in February in Stockholm a publication titled “Ten Steps Plan for Safer Road Infrastructure” that offers a practical guidance framework for countries – especially low and middle income – on how to achieve SDG target 3.6 through safe road infrastructure.
IRF General Assembly elects three new members to the Board of Directors
The General Assembly of the International Road Federation (IRF) in Geneva has unanimously elected three new members to the Board of Directors : Mr. Hamdi AYDIN, Board Member, at the Turkish Road Association, Mr. Slobodan BASURIC, Technical Director at PE Roads of Serbia and Mr. Michael CALTABIANO, Chief Executive Officer at the Australian Road Research Board (ARRB).
“We are excited to welcome these three outstanding professionals to our Board of Directors. They bring a wealth of experience, greater geographical diversity and will be able to innovate while ensuring continuity with IRF values. The organisations they represent have been part of the IRF family for decades” said Bill Halkias, IRF President in welcoming the three new members to the Board.
The Annual General Assembly was an opportunity to review IRF 2019 activities and to celebrate achievements. The year has been successful and marked by: the signature MoUs with European Association of Operators of Toll Road Infrastructures (ASECAP) and the University of Qatar; impactful policy and advocacy activities in the framework of the World Bank-led Sustainable Mobility for All (SuM4All) and the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration Group (UNRSC); training and capacity building around the world, to mention a few.
Covid-19 crisis was indeed part of the discussion with members providing an update on the situation in their respective countries and discussing needed steps forward for the sector.
IRF will be soon releasing a paper outlining opportunity for more sustainable road infrastructure development at the time of Covid-19. More info available on www.irfnet.ch
Traffic noise annoyance survey during COVID-19 period
The virus COVID 19 has arrived in Europe after a few months of the appearance in China and in the Far East countries. At that time, nobody would imagine the consequences of it in our life. Although we had very complicated days during the lockdown fortunately some positive effects could be observed during of it. The lockdown is like a long mobility week, no car in the streets, during long weeks, so the quality of the air could finally be better and the level of road traffic noise emission in cities could be lower.
Some governments applied total lockdown, parks were closed and serious restrictions were introduced. Regarding other politics of fight against the propagation of the virus COVID 19 it was just suggested to stay home, no serious restriction was implemented. The social distances protocol was established in the most part of the World. We could read about the positive effect of the total stop of passenger road traffic, the reorganization of public transport facilities, the sustainable transport communities.The CO2 emissions have dropped by 58% across Europe. The no emission level targeted for the far future was reached involuntary, which significates the halfway to the 2050 net zero goal.
No doubt regarding the environmental issues the total or partial lockdown have its positive effects on all major environmental pollutant, so thus on the noise emission level.
Nearly 80% of the European population lives in urban areas, where pollution effects are more significant and are exposed to high or extremely high noise level. Road traffic noise emissionis one of the most important factor influencing urban population everyday life.Noise is an unwanted sound. Road traffic noise annoyance is the response of a person exposed to road traffic noise. The total road traffic noise annoyance is a sum of three components, like subjective-, objective and visual road traffic noise annoyance. Likely lockdown related to the COVID 19 pandemic has some effect on all the three components.
In these particular period of life the present survey aims to collect data on perceived road traffic noise annoyance and try to find relationship between lockdown and road traffic noise annoyance. Do the positive environmental effects of the lockdown during the period of COVID 19 havereally positive effects on people perceived road traffic noise annoyance? Can be any correlation be demonstrated between them?
The survey can be found via the following link: https://forms.gle/EHZZjYC7fwzeYg6o9
DANAOS solutions help business continuity during COVID-19
DANAOS Projects Software Solutions (dp), part of DANAOS Technology Ecosystem, is an Engineering - Construction (E&C) and Facility Management market-leading software provider that modernizes and transforms Construction, Facility and Assets Management companies in order to stay competitive in a changing and volatile marketplace. DANAOS solutions help ensure business continuity even during COVID-19 by eliminating cost overruns and reinforcing transparency and compliance.
ProjectVIEW ERP and DANAOS VORTEX constitute DANAOS Value Proposition for the entire ConTech and PropTech value-chain under the principle of Unified Engineering:
- ProjectVIEW ERP is the industry’s only enterprise-ready Cost Control and Projects Performance Management Platform. A complete business suite. A toolbox for large Contractors that want to estimate, bid, execute and operate efficiently, Demarcating Uncertainty, Sizing the Risk and Securing the Profit.
The unified construction software platform that can be fully customized to your needs. The only solution that seamlessly integrates construction-specific Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) with Oracle Primavera and any BIM system, providing real-time Actual vs Budgeted Cost.
- DANAOS VORTEX is a comprehensive Field Service and Asset Management Suite, a CAFM system, that includes 4 ecosystems: 1) Backoffice Operations, 2) Workforce/Mobile Operations, 3) Subcontractors and 4) Clients’ Trouble Ticketing and Reporting.
DANAOS VORTEX integrated with GIS (spatial data infrastructure) and/or BIM-IoT systems is ideal for modern Infrastructure Operators and Concessionaires such as Motorway, Public Utility or Airport Managers that require advanced serviceability for Social Infrastructure Physical Assets and high standards on Public Service Delivery Management assuring safer and more reliable services to the end-users.
For more information, visit the website of Danaos : www.danaos-projects.com
