The United Nations Road Safety Fund (UNRSF), has recently launched the UN Road Safety Lab, a new Knowledge Hub and AI-enabled knowledge platform for road safety. Established in 2018, UNRSF brings together 21 UN member organizations, governments, the World Bank, the private sector and civil society under a single coordinated framework, mobilizing resources and driving [...]

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released new road death data, showcasing that despite the addition of more than one billion motor-vehicles to the world’s roads, road traffic deaths declined by 21% between 2011 and 2025. With nearly 60% of the world’s population now living in urban areas, growing demand for mobility threatens to overwhelm [...]

The European Road Safety Charter of the European Commission recently published an article titled "Road infrastructure: A foundation for safer roads", highlighting the critical role of road infrastructure in achieving safer roads. Road design can either support safe behavior or create danger. Many roads encourage high speeds without adequate protection, increasing crash severity. Undivided roads raise head‑on collision risks, unsafe roadsides [...]

A Paper titled "Traffic safety culture within the safe system: developing a common definition of traffic safety culture" authored by Tor-Olav Nævestad, Uta Meesmann, Henriette Wallén Warner, Susanne Kaiser, Ingeborg S. Hesjevoll, Vibeke Milch, Sonja Forward, Mathias De Roeck, Michael Schachner, Dimitris Nikolaou, Gunilla Björklund, Alexandra Laiou, Hanna Wennberg, Eva Aigner-Breuss and Anita Eichhorn was [...]

The Horizon Europe PHOEBE (Predictive Approaches for Safer Urban Environment) Project organized with great success its online Final Webinar on 30 June 2026. This 90-minute online event showcased the PHOEBE framework from inception to implementation, together with the various integration steps taken within the project. The outcomes of the PHOEBE pilots, covering mode choice and [...]

The Horizon Europe PHOEBE (Predictive Approaches for Safer Urban Environment) Project organized with great success and high attendance its Final Event as a dedicated Workshop within the 10th Road Safety and Simulation International Conference (RSS2026), held in Naples, Italy, on 23 June 2026. The event showcased the project's innovative framework for forecasting and improving urban [...]

The World Road Association (PIARC) together with the Polish Road Congress Association and the General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways (GDDKiA), are organizing the 3rd PIARC International Conference on Road Tunnel Operations and Safety, which will be held in Krakow, Poland, on 30 September-2 October 2026. The Event will focus on the planning, design and construction [...]

The World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS) organized with great success the 17th World Conference on Transport Research which was held in Toulouse, France, on 6-10 July 2026. For the last 40 years, WCTR has been organized every three years by the WCTR Society, uniting specialists from the transportation sector worldwide. Topics for discussion [...]

The European Commission together with 2Zero, ERTRAC and CCAM are organizing the Road Transport Research Results Conference (RTR Conference) which will take place in Brussels, on 23-24 February 2027. This 10th anniversary edition aims to deliver a holistic view of how the European research scene is moving forward, bringing benefits to the environment, economy and [...]

ERTICO is organizing the ITS World Congress 2027 which will be held in Birmingham, UK, on 25-29 October 2027, under the theme: "Connect ideas. Transform Transport". This Event provides a unique platform for governments, industry leaders, researchers, and innovators to collaborate on the development of safer, greener, and more efficient transport systems. The ITS World Congress brings together [...]