NTUA within the framework of the Fourth UN Global Road Safety Week organised with great success a Workshop titled “The Future of Road Safety Research” on 15 May 2017 at the NTUA Campus in Athens. The objective of this Workshop was to highlight through an intensive flow of presentations the main findings and challenges of key road safety research projects carried out within the NTUA Laboratory of Traffic Engineering and to open up the discussion in a round table on the future of road safety research in Greece, in Europe and worldwide. Special emphasis was be given to managing speed for improving road safety in line with the UN Global Road Safety Week objectives.
Workshop presentations concerned:
The NTUA Road Safety Observatory – Nrso
The European Road Safety Observatory – Erso+
The European Road Safety Decision Support System – SafetyCube
The CEDR Road Safety APM and CMF Repository – Pract
The African Road Safety Observatory – SaferAfrica
Global benchmarking of road safety in cities – IrtadCities
Predicting road accidents with real time data – WeatherSafe
Monitoring road safety culture in Europe – SafeCulture
Monitoring road safety attitudes in Europe – Esra
Monitoring behaviour of older road users in Europe – ElderSafe
Monitoring road safety risk factors and measures – SafetyCube
Monitoring driver distraction – Distract
Monitoring behaviour of drivers with cognitive impairment – DriverBrain
Monitoring driver behaviour through mobile phones – OSeven
The future of road safety research – HELLASTRON
The future of road safety research – Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport
Quantitative Methods in Road Safety – HITE