NEW YORK (April 30, 2013) – Bloomberg Philanthropies today launched a new website featuring the first comprehensive look at all programmes and initiatives in the organization’s five key focus areas including Public Health, Environment, Education, Government Innovation and the Arts at www.bloomberg.org. The new Bloomberg Philanthropies website defines the mission, work, and philanthropic approach of the foundation. It…
It has been an annual event since 1984, and this year, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) United Traffic Week was held under the slogan, ‘Your safety is our aim’. From Saudi Arabia to Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and reaching to the Sultanate of Oman and the UAE, activities promoting safe driving behaviour were held involving all…
Working to improve data management systems and promote effective pedestrian safety interventions in cities are two critical milestones that require special attention as countries strive towards the realization of the goals of the Decade of Action for Road Safety. To this end, the Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) and the Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Programme…
Pedestrians, motorcycle, e-bike and bicycle users are the most vulnerable of all road users, accounting for half of all road traffic deaths. Fortunately, there are ways to protect these road users from harm. This year, the Global Road Safety Partnership Asia Seminar 2013 in Manila, the Philippines, hosted nearly 200 road safety experts, practitioners, business…
Regular GRSP newsletter readers and those familiar with the work of the Bloomberg Philanthropies funded Road Safety in 10 Countries programme will know of the outstanding road safety work being undertaken in Hyderabad, capital city of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. In the latest innovative move by additional commissioner of police (traffic) CV…
Each year, more than 270 000 pedestrians lose their lives on the world’s roads. Many leave their homes as they would on any given day never to return. Globally, pedestrians constitute 22% of all road traffic fatalities, and in some countries this proportion is as high as two thirds of all road traffic deaths. Today…
Targeting Vulnerable Road Users Safety for pedestrians and motorcycle, e-bike and bicycle users The GRSP Asia Seminar will focus this year on the serious issue of vulnerable road users. Right across Asia, the majority of people killed or injured in road crashes are vulnerable road users: pedestrians and motorcycle, e-bike and bicycle users. Activities at…
Afyonkarahisar (Afyon) is a city of around 175,000 people in western Turkey. In June 2010 it had been selected as one of two pilot cities in Turkey in which projects would be conducted by GRSP through the Bloomberg Philanthropies funded Road Safety in 10 Countries programme. At that time, wearing a seat-belt was simply not…
An early adopter of advanced fleet safety policies, GRSP member and Swiss multi-national Nestle, developed its ‘Safe Driving’ programme in 2008 in alignment with work then being undertaken by European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) and its PRAISE project (Preventing Road Accidents and Injuries for the Safety of Employees). The result for Nestle was a programme…
During March in Vietnam, the Ministries of Transport, Public Security, Science & Technology, and Trade & Industry issued joint circular number 06/2013. The circular significantly strengthens and improves regulations related to motorcycle and bicycle helmet production, import, sales, and use. The issuance of this circular is expected to have a significant impact on road traffic…
We have a far clearer picture of the number of road deaths there are versus the number of serious injuries. Current estimates suggest that for every road death there are 10 serious injuries. The question, however, across borders or even from city to city, is “what is a serious injury?”. Without a common definition, no…
STUTTGART: Better mobility in European cities: CIVITAS ‘2MOVE2’ project launched CIVITAS is an EU initiative for supporting and evaluating the implementation of integrated sustainable and energy efficient urban transport strategies in European cities. The current phase (CIVITAS PLUS II) focuses on designing, implementing and testing innovative strategies for sustainable urban transport aiming a small number…
Amsterdam – The International SOS Foundation and Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) announce a collaboration to help mitigate road accidents faced by business travellers and expatriates working abroad. The recently released World Health Organization ‘Global Status Report on Road Safety’ states that 1.24 million people are killed each year on our roads. This equates to…
The World Health Organization today launched the ‘Global status report on road safety 2013’. This report, the second in a series, presents information from 182 countries, accounting for almost 99% of the world’s population, and will serve as the baseline for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020. The report analyzes to what extent…
As the EU MENA programme enters its second year, beneficiary countries are finalizing action plans for multi-sector and multi-disciplinary road safety pilot projects under the supervision of GRSP experts. Tunisia is one of the beneficiary countries, the planned activity for which is entitled ‘Design and Establishment of a Road Safety Management System for SORETRAS’ (Sfax…
