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Advanced Passive Safety Network (APSN)
Association for Safe International Road Travel (ASIRT)
Community Road Safety Education (CRSE) guidelines for conducting community road safety education programmes in developing countries.
The guidelines can be used to promote informal community-based education
for adults and children to avoid neglecting those outside the school
environment. It is presented as an advisory document that aims to be
appropriate for local conditions, while advocating community ownership
of road safety education programmes. (From DFID
and TRL)
Drive and Stay Alive, Inc., International Road Safety News (DSA)
Foundation of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA)
Global Road Safety (United Nations)
Global Road Safety Partnership The GRSP knowledge base summarizes key information for policy makers and practitioners about road safety to assist them in the development of effective road safety interventions which can reduce road crashes and minimize the adverse impacts these crashes have on social and economic development, health services, law enforcement and transport systems.
Institute for Traffic Care (ITC)
The ITC sets the goal of collecting existing and future traffic safety expertise by making use of (police) networks available to it, to achieve a structural development and implementation of traffic safety activities, with the end result of bringing about a positive behavioural influence of road traffic users.
International Commission for Driver Testing (CIECA)
CIECA is the international commission for driver testing authorities, active in the fields of road safety and driver testing. It has member organisations from 31 countries worldwide.
CIECA aims to play a leading role in enhancing road safety and to encourage the development of high, common standards for driving licences throughout its member countries. Since 1993, CIECA has become a leading project partner of the European Commission's Energy and Transport Directorate, issuing "best practice" recommendations for driving qualifications for the EU and beyond.
International Co-operation on Theories and Concepts in Traffic Safety (ICTCT)
International Road Safety Academy (IRSA)
The Institute for Traffic Care (see above) has taken the initiative to establish an International Road Safety Academy with regional offices. The Institute has asked a number of international outstanding organizations, road policing and road safety experts to join this initiative and to deliver their expertise to save lifes on the worlds’ roads and in developing countries in particular.
International Road Safety News from Drive and Stay Alive, Inc. (DSA)
International Road Safety Organisation (La Prévention Routière Internationale -- PRI) The International Road Safety Organization is a non-governmental organization, founded in 1959 to promote co-operation amongst national institutions dealing with road safety. Some fifty countries are represented within PRI from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.... PRI membership is also open to individuals and organisations.
International Road Traffic and Accidents Database (IRTAD)
International Road Transport Union (IRU) -- Road Safety Charter
Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development -- Road Transport Research (OECD)
La Prévention Routière Internationale (PRI)
RoadRagers.com is based in the USA but clearly seeks to combat road rage worldwide.
Click here for their advice page.
Transport for Development presents information about transport-related matters arising out of the UK Department for International Development's (DFID) programme of aid to developing countries.
Transport Knowledge Partnership (TKP)
UN Economic Commission for Europe -- Road Safety (UNECE)
UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific -- Road Safety (UNESCAP)
UN Resolution A/57/L.77 (pdf)
-- Presentations in relation to this resolution
World Bank Road Safety website
World Health Organisation -- Injuries, Traffic (WHO)
World Health Organisation -- Injuries and Violence Prevention Division (WHO)
World Health Organisation -- Motorcycle Helmets web page
World Health Organisation -- The Road Ahead (road safety newsletter)
World Road Association (PIARC)
World Road Safety Network -- WRSN
The Institute of Traffic Care (ITC) Netherlands (affiliated to the United Nations-DPI) and the Institute for Road and Traffic Education (IRTE) India, with support from the British (NGO) organization RoadSafe, made a proposal to interested parties in 2003 to create the World Road Safety Network (WRSN). The WRSN has been set-up as a virtual Network to create a database with good practices to enable qualitative training to be delivered and to share ‘good practice’ in all fields of road safety and traffic policing and traffic management in particular.
eSafety/eScope eScope is an "eSafety Observatory" established by the European Commission to monitor and stimulate the eSafety initiative's progress and activities. The observatory is an easily accessible and up-to-date resource for information on the latest eSafety topics.
eScope comprises three main activities aimed at mobilising the commitment of the eSafety community:
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Monitoring progress on implementation of the 28 eSafety priority Recommendations and of the eSafety “Road Maps" to be agreed
- Providing an overview of European emerging results on eSafety priority topics
- Creating awareness and dissemination
European Commission -- Automotive Industry Directives
European Commission Road Safety 'Country Profiles'
European Commission Road Safety Website
European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT)
European Driving Regulations, country by country
European Federation of Road Traffic Victims (FEVR)
European Road Assessment Programme (EuroRAP)
European Road Safety Action Programme
European Road Safety Observatory (SafetyNet)
European Road Signs and Conventions (Continental Europe only, not the UK)
European Road Transport Research Advisory Council (ERTRAC)
European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) (List of 27 member-countries/-organizations)
European Union Road Safety Laws webpage (scroll down, when you get there)
Guarding Automobile Drivers through Guidance Education and Technology (GADGET)
International Road Federation (IRF)
International Road Traffic and Accidents Database (IRTAD)
Renault have an excellent website about safety education for students, at Safety For All
UNECE European Road Safety Links
Luchemos por la Vida ("Let's fight for life") is a non-profit organization working to help prevent traffic accidents in Argentina. In these pages you will find information and statistics about this topic and a good insight into the problems faced within the country. [The information] may be applicable to any country in Latin America, or in a more general sense to any under developed country.
Australian College of Road Safety
Australian Road Safety Inventors Forum
Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB)
Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety, Queensland (CARRS)
Department of Transport and Regional Services (DoTaRS)
National Road Safety Black Spot programme
Institute of Public Works Engineering, Australia (IPWEA)
Office of Road Safety -- Western Australia (ORS)
Parliament of Victoria Road Safety Committee
Pedestrian Council of Australia
Queensland Government Road Safety -- an excellent site -- well worth a look, either for info or road safety/website ideas
Roads and Traffic Authority, New South Wales (RTA)
Transport Accident Commission (TAC)
and their book: The Driver's Handbook (including the Australian Road Rules)
Victoria Road Safety Committee
Belgian Institute for Road Safety (IBSR) (in French or Dutch)
Je Suis Pour (A new campaign; December 2004. Not in English)
Responsible Young Drivers (RYD) (in English)
An 'Auto Accident' news archive from News 5 is a commendably detailed resource for anyone researching crashes in this small country.
Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals (CARSP/ACPSER)
Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators (CCMTA)
Canada Safety Council -- Traffic Safety Page
Ministry of Transportation Ontario (MTO)
Safe Kids Canada Road Safety Checklist (SKCAN)
Transport Canada -- Road Safety Vision
Road Safety and Advanced Driving Society (RoADS)
Transport Research Centre (CDV)
Road Directorate -- Proposals for Crash Reduction
National Roads Authority (NRA)
National Safety Council (NSC)
Estonian Road Administration -- (ERA) (Maanteeamet) -- has a linked, road safety page
Liikenneturva
-- (available in English) 'The
brief of Liikenneturva is to improve traffic safety
Roads and Railways (VTT)
Institut National De Recherche Sur Les Transports Et Leur Securite (INRETS)
La Prévention Routière (mostly in French but occasional articles in English)
Sécurité Routière (in French only)
Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt)
German Road Safety CounciI (DVR)
Trohopedia -- This is a group of young people who aim to reduce road traffic injuries in Greece. The group's actions are especially directed at young people.
Hong Kong Road Safety Association (website in Chinese only at time of posting)
Transport Department Road Users' Code (year 2000 edition)
Chandigarh Police Road Safety Website (first published on the Web in January 2005)
Delhi Police Road Safety Advice
Institute of Road Traffic Education The IRTE is a Non Government Organisation which was formed in December 1991 by an Inter-disciplinary group of members drawn from police, doctors, journalists, engineers, educationists, ex-servicemen, architects, and automobile experts. They work in co-operation with Warwickshire Constabulary, in the UK, to enhance road safety education in schools and colleges in India.
Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
Anashim BeAdom (Hebrew for People in Red) is a non-profit, non-partisan, all-volunteer organization committed to reducing the number of fatalities and injuries on Israel's roads.
Metuna
was founded in 1993 as the direct result of the catastrophic conditions
on Israeli roads. Even today after nine years, at least 2000 families
are traumatised in one year by the death or serious injury of a loved
one. The hospitals treat more road casualties than victims of enemy
hostilities, civilian or military.
National Road Safety Authority (NRSA)
Israel Police Road Safety Website (Hebrew only)
Institute for Traffic Accident Research and Data Analysis
Road Transport Bureau (summary of rôle, in English -- pdf)
Association nationale des Victimes de la Route (AVR)
La Sécurité Routière, Luxembourg (in French)
Public Education Road Safety Programme
Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management -- Traffic Safety Page
Institute for Road Safety Research (SWOV)
Road Traffic Signs and Regulations in the Netherlands
Traffic and Transport (TNO)
Land Transport Safety Authority of New Zealand -- Te Mana Marutau Waka Whenua o Aotearoa (LTSA)
Road Safety Nigeria aims to "encourage good driving habits and help reduce, and limit the impact of, road traffic accidents". We will do this by:
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Providing information about key road safety issues and how improvements can be made.
- Publicising important governmental and community initiatives to help reduce traffic accidents and make our roads safer.
Association of Road Users of Pakistan The poor condition & safety on the network of roads throughout the country needs to be improved. The collective support & positive participation between the private and government agencies involved would eventually bring the desired changes.
The Arrive Alive website (a different website to that of the Dept. of Transport, below)
-- Newsletters available here.
The Department of Transport Arrive Alive Campaign
The Independent (newspaper) Online -- ION -- Road Safety Pages
KwaZulu-Natal Department of Transport (with a road safety section)
Directorate General of Traffic
Ministry of Industry, Employment and Communications (Note: The Swedes don't mess around with targets of a mere percentage reduction in casualties. They state that: 'the long-term objective with regard to traffic safety is that no one shall be killed or seriously injured as a result of a traffic accident. The structure and function of the transport system shall be adapted to meet the necessary requirements for achieving this goal.' Well said, Sweden.)
National Society for Road Safety (NTF)
Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
Vägverket -- The Swedish Road Administration (English)
Federal Roads Authority (ASTRA)
Institute for Transport Planning and Systems (IVT)
Association of Industrial Road Safety Officers (AIRSO)
Brake -- a British-based but Globally interested charity which aims to reduce road casualties
Compendium of Road Safety Activity in the UK (produced by the TRL)
Department for Transport -- Road Safety (DfT)
Driving Standards Agency (the other DSA!)
Guild of Experienced Motorists (GEM)
Hampshire County Council Road Safety
Health and Safety Executive -- Road Safety (HSE)
Hedgehogs (for younger people)
The Highways Agency is an executive agency of the Department for Transport. It manages, maintains and improves the network of trunk roads and motorways in England on behalf of the Secretary of State. It works closely with other transport operators and with local authorities to integrate the trunk road network with the rest of England's roads and other forms of travel.
Amongst other things, visitors to the Agency's website can now get real-time traffic information from the National Traffic Control Centre. They will also be able to also get traffic-flow forecasts to help them plan their future journeys.
Institute of Road Safety Officers (IRSO)
Junior Road Safety Officers (JRSO)
Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety
Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership
Local Authority Road Safety Officers' Association (LARSOA)
Manual of Contract Documents for Highway Works
Neighbourhood Road Safety Initiative (NRSI) Every year over 130 children die and more than 4,500 are seriously injured while walking or cycling on the country's roads and by 2010 the government aim to reduce the number of child road casualties by 50%.
The Neighbourhood Road Safety Initiative (NRSI) has been set up to find fresh and innovative ways to reduce road casualties, particularly those involving children. Fifteen local authorities participate in this initiative.
Occupational Road Safety Alliance (ORSA) Every year in Great Britain, between 800 and 1000 people are killed in road accidents in which someone was at work (this is estimated as being up to 30% of all road fatalities and is also more than the total of all notifiable occupational fatalities).
Pass Plus -- extra training for newly qualified drivers, from the Driving Standards Agency
Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS)
The Road Safety Compendium 2000/01, from the Department of Transport, contains a large number of excellent links concerning many aspects of safety for all road users. There is also a link to the earlier Compendium for 1998.
Road Safety Council of Wales -- RoSCoW
Road Safety Officers National Films Committee
Road Sense for Horse Riders -- On average 5 riders are killed in road accidents in Britain each year.
RoSPA : Helping Young People Learn to Drive and Ride Safely
Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) -- Road Safety Review, 2002. Also view their Fact Sheets.
Scottish Road Safety Campaign (SRSC)
The THINK! road safety website
Traffic Conditions for the UK -- current conditions, on the Highways Agency website
Transport Research Laboratory (TRL)
-- DfT Road Safety Division reports, for free download
Links for the USA are on a separate page -- click here to view them
Abbreviations
DSA (news page)
NRA (Ireland)
NSC (Ireland)