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EU RISM Directive requires member states carry out proactive road safety inspections. While TII has a long history of developing standards and implementing safety programmes they were mainly based around patterns of historical collision data. This would be considered a retrospective approach. Since the adoption of the Road Infrastructure Safety Management (RISM) Directive, Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) has developed a new standard that sets out the processes around road safety inspections (RSI). The programmes, based on the standard, relies on a visual inspection along the route. Engineers versed in road design and with experience I road safety audits conduct these surveys. However, despite their expertise, early analysis of the data exposed some inconsistencies in how 'risk' as assigned to items noted in the RSI. The objective was to build in a way to achieve greater consistency around the proactive risk rating process. At one level the target audience were just the engineers involved in the inspection process but as we discussed the new insist from our data analysis it became obvious that other areas within our organisation could make use of our risk rating programme. Some of our results are now form part of a vehicle restrained course. See https://www.engineersireland.ie/listings/event/7353. In addition, TII have prepared a paper for the 2020 International Symposium on Highway Geometric Design (now postponed to 2022 due to COVID-19). This paper (https://www.tii.ie/technical-services/safety/road-safety/2020-ISHGD-Motorway-RSI-Ireland.pdf) discussed TII's proactive safety programme and the risk rating process on the entire motorway network in Ireland, circa 1,000 km, as we believed our work has a wider audience.
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In Ireland, we love our phones but we know disconnecting is important. On average we spend 5 hours every day looking at our phones and 4/5 people admit to using their mobile phone while driving. Even though using a mobile phone behind the wheel when driving makes you 23 times more likely to have an accident, we still do it. So we want o change peoples behaviours. The Toyota FaceItDown app was built using technology to reinforce positive behaviour change by rewarding users for driving with their mobile phones facing down. The more kilometres a user drives with their phone facing down (and without ever touching it or picking it up) the more points they are awarded at the end of their journey. The gamification system of rewarding points for app usage was all built according to gamification best practice around one single behaviour/action; the act of facing down your phone while you're driving. Our objective of the app is to change peoples behaviours and make Irish roads safer for everyone. Target: All drivers, not just Toyota as we all share the road together. We know younger males are the worst offender and they remain our key target audience.
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Drinking and riding an e-scooter is an entrenched problem facing our sector and, to date, no-one has adequately tackled the issue. Through our taxi partnerships feature TIER aims to help address that major road safety challenge. Alcohol consumption has been identified as an important risk factor resulting in road traffic injury or death. A recent study found that 20% of injuries sustained by e-scooter users were sustained while under the influence of alcohol. This research (and other studies) indicate that traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are among the most severe injuries sustained by e-scooter users that ride under the influence of alcohol. The same study found that alcohol consumption increases the risk of a TBI fivefold while operating an e-scooter compared to a sober user. E-scooter injury analysis in the US cities of Santa Monica and San Diego suggest a strong correlation between alcohol consumption and crash severity. TIER's feature is part of our programme of work that aims to prevent drink riding amongst the micro-mobility sector. The objectives of the anti-drinking and riding campaign are as follows: 1. Remind riders about the dangers of drinking and riding and e-scooter. 2. Encourage riders to take a taxi home if they have then drinking, rather than take a TIER 3. Make it as easy as possible for riders to get home quickly if they have been drinking. The target audience of the campaign is any e-scooter user who is likely to use our service whilst under the influence of alcohol.
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Optimization of policy decisions and road user choices is based on advanced analyses of reliable crash, exposure and Key Performance Indicators (KPI) data. The mission of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) Road Safety Observatory (http://www.nrso.ntua.gr/) is to support the Greek and the International Road Safety Community by providing openly current key road safety knowledge and data, which are gathered, analysed and organised within the research activities of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, as well as within co-operations with various national and international Road Safety Organisations. Road safety is a typical field where important investments are not always bringing quick and/or the desired results. The major objective of the NTUA Road Safety Observatory is to openly, continuously and dynamically support the road safety decision makers and stakeholders (public and private) at all levels (local, regional, national, international) with updated knowledge and data in order to identify the appropriate road safety policies, programmes and measures for the significant reduction of the number of road accidents and of the related casualties in Greece, in Europe and worldwide. NRSO is continuously investing into systematic production and open dissemination of scientific road safety knowledge as well as into the support of road safety activities beyond Europe with emphasis on least performing regions (Africa, Middle East, Asia, Latin America), proving its quote: "Road Safety everywhere and for all". NRSO activities in summary are available at: https://www.nrso.ntua.gr/geyannis/wp-content/uploads/geyannis-cp466-6.pdf https://www.nrso.ntua.gr/ntua-innovation-in-road-safety-research-workshop-online-may-2021/. The target audience is all road safety decision makers and stakeholders (public and private) at all levels (local, regional, national, international).
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In industrialized countries, motor vehicle accidents are the most important cause of death and disability in the first half of life. Furthermore, new drivers are four times more likely than experienced drivers to incur a road accident: the greatest number of deaths is concentrated in the 20-34 age group in both sexes. In Italy, road safety education is mandatory at schools on all levels but teachers do not know how and what to teach students. In primary and secondary schools, there is a lack of comprehensive mobility education. The didactic project called "SicuraMente" was carried out in Italian region Friuli Venezia Giulia (in the north-eastern part of Italy) as a partnership between Ministry for Education and the regional government, in collaboration with the Traffic Police of Trieste and FVG Roads Ltd. (managers of state highways in Friuli Venezia Giulia). In this project, where the mobility education is offered by the schools inside the curricular disciplines, some core activities concerning road safety education from the scientific and social point of view were proposed teaching through the peer education methodology: the rationale was a perspective of safe and sustanable education as both a scientific education and a citizenship education, establishing the scientific and social meaning of rules as a basic step to make students follow them. E.g. the study of motion and of relative motions are the prelude to the proposed analysis of the safety distance, trajectory and position, displacement and velocity vectors are basic kinematic quantities to explain to students. Target: Young people (under 18 y.o. and news drivers).