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This spotlight series is dedicated to showcasing the best practices shared by ERSC members. Each month, we will highlight a different member’s innovative road safety initiative. By highlighting these success stories, we aim to create a collaborative environment where others recognise, celebrate, and adopt lessons learned and best practices.

Our October spotlight features the Transport Research Centre (CDV) from Czechia for the development of their comprehensive and impactful Zlín Region Road Safety Strategy 2022-2030. 

This spotlight series is dedicated to showcasing the best practices shared by ERSC members. Each month, we will highlight a different member’s innovative road safety initiative. By highlighting these success stories, we aim to create a collaborative environment where others recognise, celebrate, and adopt lessons learned and best practices.

Our September spotlight features WingDriver in Portugal for its impactful driver monitoring system.

 Why the WingDriver project has been recognised as Good Practice of the Month

On 12 March 2024, ECA published its special report titled ‘Reaching EU road safety objectives – Time to move up a gear’, which provides an in-depth examination of the current state of play and trends in road safety in the EU.

The European Commission has released the new Road Safety Country Profiles of the European Road Safety Observatory. These profiles offer a detailed assessment of road safety across the 27 EU Member States and three EFTA countries from 2012 to 2021.

This edition of our newsletter announces the opening of our 2024 Excellence in Road Safety Awards application window.

Our annual Excellence in Road Safety Awards recognises the contributions of our members towards the shared goal of improved road safety across Europe.

The categories for 2024 are:

Do you have a road safety project or initiative that you think deserves EU-wide recognition? 

Apply now to win a prestigious Excellence in Road Safety Award. Your application will not only put you in with a chance to win a European award, but it will also help us to share good practices from across Europe.

You can inspire others and help build greater momentum towards our Vision Zero goal – reducing road deaths to almost zero by 2050. 

On the 16th of April road safety experts and authorities came together in Dublin at the EU Road Safety Conference of the European Commission to discuss the progress made so far with implementing the Safe System approach and with achieving the goals of halving road deaths by 2030.  The conference was opened by Director-General Magda Kopczyńska and moderated by Director Kristian Schmidt of DG MOVE.

The World Bank Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF) in collaboration with Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety and UK Aid have recently published the Guide for Safe Speeds Report

How young people use transport matters for society. Transport connects them to education, work, friends and other opportunities. Mobility patterns of the younger generation also matter for sustainability, economic development, liveability, health and well-being.

The ESRA project is a joint initiative of road safety institutes, research centres, public services and private sponsors from all over the world. The aim is to collect and analyse comparable data on road safety performance, in particular road safety culture and behaviour of road users. After extensive data collection across 39 countries in its third edition, the project now launched a dashboard to give a visual representation of the national road safety indicators.