Good practices

Our members are dedicated to improving road safety and sharing their knowledge with the wider community. Here, you can explore our members' good practices – initiatives that have been assessed for their effectiveness in addressing a road safety problem and have proven results. 

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Friday, May 30, 2025
The core problem is that children in Greece grow up with little or no mobility education. There is no structured cultivation of what it means to be a responsible, aware participant in shared road environments. Most students have never experienced what it means to move safely, to share space, or to recognize the needs of vulnerable users (such as people with disabilities, pedestrians, or cyclists).
Our initiative targets children aged 0–16 and promotes safe and sustainable mobility through education in schools in the Municipality of Chania, Crete. We do not approach road safety simply as accident prevention — we view it as a cultural issue: How do we perceive movement in public space? How do we respect pedestrians, cyclists, and especially children?
Our programme fills this gap by offering an immersive, experience-based approach through Virtual Reality (VR) technology — placing children in realistic traffic situations where they learn by living the experience, not just reading about it.
The goal is not just to “prevent harm.” It is to help them move through the world with awareness, respect, and a sense of belonging in a community that moves together.
Friday, May 30, 2025
Główne wyzwania, które adresuje Program Grantowy Drogowskaz, dotyczą niskiego poziomu wiedzy i świadomości dzieci i młodzieży w zakresie bezpieczeństwa ruchu drogowego (BRD), a także braku odpowiedniej infrastruktury edukacyjnej w tym obszarze. W wielu miejscowościach – zwłaszcza mniejszych i wiejskich – dzieci poruszają się po drogach bez odpowiedniego przygotowania, często bez kasków, odblasków czy znajomości podstawowych zasad ruchu drogowego. Brakuje tam chodników, przejść dla pieszych, ścieżek rowerowych, a także miasteczek ruchu drogowego, które umożliwiałyby praktyczną naukę.
Dodatkowym problemem jest niedostateczna edukacja praktyczna – dzieci uczą się zasad BRD głównie teoretycznie, bez możliwości ćwiczenia ich w realistycznych warunkach. W wielu przypadkach również dorośli – rodzice i opiekunowie – nie dają dobrego przykładu, co prowadzi do utrwalania niebezpiecznych nawyków.
Program Drogowskaz odpowiada na te wyzwania poprzez finansowanie lokalnych inicjatyw edukacyjnych, zakup infrastruktury (np. mobilnych miasteczek ruchu drogowego, wyświetlacze prędkości, AED), organizację warsztatów, rajdów i kampanii społecznych, które angażują całe społeczności i realnie wpływają na poprawę bezpieczeństwa na drogach.
Friday, May 30, 2025
Das Ziel „Mission Zero“ war bereits am Horizont sichtbar, doch es rückt nach Corona wieder in die Ferne. Traurige Realität ist, dass die Anzahl der Verkehrstoten in den letzten Jahren stetig ansteigt. Die Hauptursachen für schwere Unfälle außerorts sind ein Dreiklang aus Übermüdung, Ablenkung und technischen Mängeln. Genau an diesem Punkt setzt das TRUCON-System (Truck Control Technology) an. Mit TRUCON ausgestattete Kontrollfahrzeuge erkennen bereits in der Vorbeifahrt technische Mängel am LKW (Infrarotanalyse der Bremsen und Reifen) und identifizieren Überschreitungen der Lenk- und Ruhezeiten. Denn hier liegt meist der Ursprung folgenreicher Unfälle. Zwar zeigt die Statistik, dass LKW-Fahrer die besseren Verkehrsteilnehmer sind und tendenziell durch umsichtige, routinierte Fahrweise weniger Unfälle verursachen. Gleichzeitig enden Unfälle, an denen LKW beteiligt sind, häufiger mit schwersten oder tödlichen Verletzungen als Unfälle mit anderen Fahrzeugen. Sich dem Ziel „Mission Zero“ wieder anzunähern bedeutet also, diejenigen LKW-Fahrer ausfindig zu machen, die sich über die Lenk- und Ruhezeiten hinwegsetzen oder deren Fahrzeuge nicht verkehrstauglich sind und somit tendenziell mehr Unfälle verursachen. Dabei unterstützt das TRUCON-System.
Thursday, May 29, 2025
We are addressing several key road safety challenges, particularly the high rates of fatalities and serious injuries on Irish roads, many of which are caused by drink driving. Between 1 January and 24 July 2024, there were 109 fatalities on Irish roads, 17 more than during the same period in 2023. Among these, 43 were drivers and 14 were motorcyclists. One of the major factors contributing to these fatalities is drink driving, with research showing that 37% of driver fatalities (from 2015-2019) involved a positive alcohol test.
To tackle this issue, the Government's Road Safety Strategy Action Plan 2021-2024 has outlined a need for targeted public education campaigns addressing the key causes of death and serious injuries, with a focus on high-risk groups. In April 2024, the Irish Government allocated additional funding to the Road Safety Authority (RSA) to combat the rising number of road deaths.
As part of this effort, we launched a pilot program featuring the Flinebox breathalyzer kiosks, starting at Electric Picnic, Ireland’s largest music festival. It uses advanced Drager alcohol sensor technology, where users blow into a straw, and the result appears on a screen in just 10 seconds. A disclaimer on the screen makes it clear that the breathalyser’s results are for informational purposes only and don’t have legal force. By making this technology easily accessible in social settings like festivals, we aim raise awareness and encourage individuals to make safer, more informed choices before getting behind the wheel
Thursday, May 29, 2025
The 'EuroTarn' Association was set up in 1997 (by myself) to encourage young people to discover the countries of the European Union, and thus learn about other European cultures and languages. The association's motto from the outset was to inspire young people to 'move in a moving world'.
Between 1997 and 2007, we developed Universities exchanges with various regions. In 2007, we created some actions to attract young people (in the Tarn area) to be more interested in Europe, and to develop their 'European citizenship' and their feeling of belonging to a same European community; And Road safety was one of the very first topic that we decided to tackle with the very first European day of Road safety in April 2007. Therefore we decided to run campaigns to talk about Road safety and... Europe, and we decided to start to visit schools to educate young people.