May 30, 2024 | General, LAC, News
Peru’s Multisector Road Safety Strategy 2023-2030 includes iRAP for the enhanced management of infrastructure safety, including for urban, highway and school environments. The Strategy of Peru’s Ministry of Transport and Communications includes to: Enhance current...
May 27, 2024 | Asia Pacific, News
The Philippines Department of Public Works and Highways’ Strategy for 2028 includes iRAP targets for improving the safety of primary roads. The targets include: To increase the percentage of the national primary road length which achieves a 3-star or better...
May 23, 2024 | General, LAC, News
Governor Tarcisio de Freitas, iRAP Global Projects Director Julio Urzua, Secretary of Infrastructure State of São Paulo Natalia Resende, and Director DER-SP Sergio Codelo with signed RAP agreement The Government of São Paulo, through the DER (Department of Highways),...
May 13, 2024 | Asia Pacific, News
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will host the 2024 Asia and the Pacific Transport Forum in Manila on 14-17 May, and iRAP’s Global Programme Director Greg Smith and IndiaRAP Technical Manager Jigesh Bhavsar will be on hand to share and support partner activity...
May 6, 2024 | News
We are delighted to share our 2023 Annual Report highlighting Partner Impact across the world helping to eliminate high-risk roads. See the stories behind our journey including: Google.org’s USD$2 million grant for safer school journeys using AI. New partnerships with...
Apr 29, 2024 | General, News, RAP Tools, Research, Training, Upcoming events
A peer-reviewed study led by world-leading researchers at Johns Hopkins University and published by a respected scientific journal has estimated the number of lives and serious injuries saved on roads made safer by iRAP partners worldwide. The study is the first...
Apr 22, 2024 | Africa, News
Last week, the Ministry of Roads and Transport through the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) launched Kenya’s new National Road Safety Action Plan 2024-2028 with iRAP included as a metric for infrastructure safety. The official launch ceremony was graced...
Apr 15, 2024 | Africa, General, News
Two significant road safety projects funded by Anglo American Foundation have kicked off in Limpopo Province, South Africa involving local capacity building and the assessment of 1,000km of roads and 20 high-risk schools to inform evidence-based safety improvements....
Apr 15, 2024 | Europe, News
Article and image credit: Marcel Sala, PhD Transportation Engineer, Aimsun Our PHOEBE Project partner Aimsun shares this update on project progress and how safety assessments are being addressed in Aimsun simulation solutions. More than 20,000 road fatalities...
Apr 15, 2024 | Africa, General, News
iRAP was delighted to participate in an important workshop of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety in February. The SADC Alliance of NGOs is a voluntary not-for-profit association which aims to establish a networking...
Apr 14, 2024 | Africa, News
We are delighted to be supporting the Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) and the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS), in association with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), to announce the upcoming Africa Regional Road Safety Seminar from 8-9...
Apr 12, 2024 | Europe, General, News
ELABORATOR, a leading initiative in the realm of sustainable urban mobility, has released its highly anticipated Inclusion Plan, signalling a pivotal step forward in the quest for inclusive and climate-neutral cities. This comprehensive document outlines strategies to...
Apr 12, 2024 | General, News
iRAP has been supporting the Vision Zero Academy Course delivered in Brazil since 2021 and has provided infrastructure safety training to more than 630 participants through the programme. The most recent training, delivered in February reached 183 participants with a...
Apr 11, 2024 | General, News
Agilysis research published in the Journal of Road Safety has created and tested a Safe System Cultural Maturity Model (SSCMM) to assess Safe System readiness within organisations and included the iRAP methodology and tools for safe infrastructure. The Safe System is...
Mar 21, 2024 | Crash risk mapping, Europe, News
The RACC Mobility Club and Real Automóvil Club de España (RACE) have presented their 20th edition of annual Crash Risk Mapping of the Spanish road network. For the first time in six years, the sections of the State Highway Network with a “high risk” of...
Mar 19, 2024 | General, Methodology, News, RAP Tools, Specifications
iRAP’s Global Technical Committee (GTC) met last week as part of their important function to govern the iRAP model development and technical integrity of iRAP protocols worldwide. Key topics of discussion were the development of a shunt / rear end crash type for...
Mar 19, 2024 | Europe, General, News, Route Review Tool
£38.3 million government investment to improve road safety on 17 of the country’s most high risk roads from Devon to Durham, road users across England will now benefit from safety improvements on 99 roads part of the £185.8 million investment to prevent over 2,600...
Mar 14, 2024 | Asia Pacific, General, News, Training
iRAP was proud to support training recently delivered in Kyrgyzstan as part of the CAREC Road Safety and Sustainable Mobility Course. The five-day course, which was officially opened by the Deputy Minister for Transport and Communication of the Kyrgyzstan, is part of...
Mar 14, 2024 | Asia Pacific, News, Star rating for designs
The journey continues this week for our “Safe and Inclusive Road Designs for Central Asia” project, with meetings in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, following last week’s project launch in Kyrgyzstan. The meetings are part of a new and transformative United...
Mar 14, 2024 | Europe, General, News, Star rating for designs
Dr Suzy Charman, Executive Director of United Kingdom RAP Lead RSF presents the awards on 7 March Last week, the 2023 National Highways Industry Awards recognised two projects that have used the iRAP approach to model and improve the safety case. The two projects...
Mar 13, 2024 | CycleRAP, Europe, News
Visiting the Autonomy Mobility World Expo this year? Hear about our partners’ work and meet our team in Paris from 20-21 March! Autonomy is the world’s largest platform bringing innovators and policymakers together to change the way we move in cities and we’re...
Mar 12, 2024 | LAC, News
The Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC) and the International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote road safety projects and programmes to eliminate high-risk roads in Costa Rica, with life-saving impacts likely in...
Mar 11, 2024 | Asia Pacific, General, News, Star rating for designs
An Asian Development Bank (ADB) Report has shared the Bank’s partnership with ORIS using Artificial Intelligence and Digital Twins to optimise the safety and climate resilience of upgrade designs for the A380 Highway in Uzbekistan, projecting the saving of 1,845...
Mar 1, 2024 | Asia Pacific, News, Star rating for designs
First meetings are underway in Kyrgystan this week as part of a transformative project to improve road design standards across the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) countries – a new United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the...
Feb 29, 2024 | Certification, General, News, Star rating for designs
Civil Engineer Dominic Waterhouse has shared Arup’s experience obtaining iRAP Certification for the proposed design of the Tonkin Highway Extension project in Western Australia, and the value it brought to project partners. Arup, on behalf of Main Roads Western...
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