Road Safety at Junctions in the EU is highlighted at the Traffic Safety Basic Facts 2015 available at the European Road Safety Observatory of the European Commission. These Traffic Safety Basic Facts contain a comprehensive series of statistical tables with the latest available data from the CARE database of the European Commission. In 2013, 5.000 people were killed in road accidents at junctions throughout the EU, this number corresponds to a reduction of more than 50% since 2004. The proportion of fatalities occurring at junctions is higher on urban roads than on rural roads or motorways. 

Road Safety at Junctions in the EU is highlighted at the Traffic Safety Basic Facts 2012 available at the Road Safety Knowledge System of the DACOTA project within the framework of theEuropean Road Safety Observatory of the European Commission. Almost 6.500 people were killed in road traffic accidents at junctions in the EU countries in 2010, representing slightly more than 20% of the total road traffic fatalities. The fall in the number of fatalities at junctions over the past decade has broadly paralleled the fall of all fatalities. 

Road Safety at Junctions in the EU is highlighted at the Traffic Safety Basic Facts 2011 recently released at the European Road Safety Observatory of the European Commission as prepared by the DACOTA project. Almost 7.200 people were killed in road traffic accidents at junctions in the EU countries in 2009, representing more than 20% of the total road traffic fatalities. The fall in the number of fatalities at junctions over the past decade has broadly paralleled the fall of all fatalities. 

A Diploma Thesis titled ‘Macroscopic analysis of road accidents at junctions’  was presented by Konstantinos Kapetanakis in November 2011. Processed data were used, extracted from the database of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (N.T.U.A.) for the time period 1996 – 2007 in Greece. Analysis has led to a series of conclusions such as that the more usual accident type in junction is the collision at angle and that regardless of the area type, the accidents which occur out of junctions are at least double than those which occur at junctions.

The 1st International Conference on Access Management took place in Athens in June 2011 and was organised by the Hellenic Association of Rural and Surveying Engineers, the TRB, the Technical Chamber of Greece and the NTUA School of Rural and Surveying Engineering.

NTUA presentations included:

  Effectiveness of road safety measures at junctions

  A critical assesment of intersection safety across Europe

Road Safety at Junctions in the EU is highlighted at the Traffic Safety Basic Facts 2010 recently released at the European Road Safety Observatory of the European Commission as prepared by the DACOTA project. Almost 8.300 people were killed in road traffic accidents at junctions in the EU countries in 2008, representing 21% of the total road traffic fatalities. This figure represents a 30% decrease in relation to the 10.500 fatalities at junctions since ten years before in 1999. 

The 12th World Conference on Transport Research was held in Lisbon, Portugal. At the road safety sessions quite a few interesting papers were presented, some of them concerning research carried out by NTUA.

NTUA road safety presentations concerned:

  Modelling Intelligent Speed Adaptation

  Road infrastructure and Safety of Power Two Wheelers

  Pedestrian gap acceptance for mid-block street crossing

  Cell phone use and traffic characteristics

  Comparative analysis of junction safety in Europe