The NTUA Road Safety Observatory (NRSO)

Initiative details

Describe the characteristics of your target audience

The target audience is road safety decision makers and stakeholders (public and private) at all levels (local, regional, national, international) to support their road safety policies, programmes, measures and interventions.

Organisation details

National Technical University of Athens

School / Research center

Professor George YANNIS Director of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering National Technical University of Athens 5, Heroon Polytechneiou street GR-15773, Athens Greece geyannis@central.ntua.gr

http://www.nrso.ntua.gr|https://twitter.com/nrso_ntua_gr|https://www.linkedin.co…

Please describe the main road safety challenges/problems you have addressed or are addressing.

Road safety is a typical field where important investments are not always bringing results. The major contribution of NRSO is to 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 via open-science 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.

What are your objectives?

Contribute to the reduction of the number of road accidents and of the related casualties in Greece, in Europe and worldwide through the scientific support of evidence based decision making for the necessary road safety policies, programs and measures

The NTUA Road Safety Observatory (NRSO) is a Center of Research and Innovation Excellence on Road Safety, with global recognition [ranked: 2nd in Europe and 6th worldwide (AAP 2018)].

The high level scientific personnel of the NTUA Road Safety Observatory (Internationally...

Project activities

List the actions you carried/are carrying out

Date

Friday, 1 January, 2016 to Friday, 31 May, 2019

Name of action

For more than 25 years, the major contribution of NRSO is to continuously and dynamically support the road safety decision makers and stakeholders with updated knowledge and data via open-science and thus, contribute to the significant reduction of the number of road accidents and of the related casualties in Greece, in Europe and worldwide, through the scientific support of evidence based decision making for the necessary road safety policies, programmes and measures.

Evaluation

What has been the effect of the activities?

- global ranking of academic and research activities- success in competitive tenders for research projects (currently 7 Horizon 2020 projects granted out of 35 proposals)- papers accepted in peer-review scientific journals and conferences- various international awards- internal and external evaluators

How have you shared information about your project and its results?

The NTUA Road Safety Observatory main dissemination tools comprise: - a fully open and dynamic web-based road safety information system (www.nrso.ntua.gr) operational since 2004 and containing a wealth of most updated data and knowledge (more than 1.300 items), - several key road safety decision support and information systems developed by the NRSO members, - the highly interesting monthly NRSO newsletter (www.nrso.ntua.gr/nrso-newsletters), received systematically since 2007 by more than 3.200 experts and stakeholders in the field of road safety in Europe and worldwide, - related social media reproducing key knowledge, data and other activities (linkedin, twitter).

How many people did you reach/have you reached?

25000+

Who carried/carries out the evaluation activities?

External evaluation

Internal evaluation

When did/will you carry out the evaluation?

Before, after and continuous monitoring

How many groups did you evaluate/have you evaluated?

Number of interventions groups

100

Number of control groups

100

Please list the indicators you use to measure success

global rankings - success in research competitive tenders - papers accepted in peer-review scientific journals and conferences - various international awards - internal and external evaluators - website visits - google search appearance results

Please describe the evaluation tools you use (i.e. surveys, interviews, focus groups, etc.)

Multi-criteria evaluations and international benchmarking

Supporting materials

Attachments

ntua-nrso-profile-may2019.pdf

The NTUA Road Safety Observatory (NRSO)