BSLZ together with SBS are organizing the 22nd International Conference Road Safety in Local Communities (RSLC 2027), with the support of the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation and RTSA, which will take place in Tara, Serbia, on 21-24 April 2027. The Conference Programme covers ten subject areas, from road safety management, infrastructure and vehicle [...]

A paper titled "Comparing Aggregation Methods for Road Safety Analysis Using Representation and Machine Learning Techniques" authored by Simone Paradiso, Apostolos Ziakopoulos, Haris Sideris and George Yannis has been published in Data Science for Transportation. This Paper proposes a refined way to aggregate smartphone-based telematics data into nodes and edges, using a dataset of multiple [...]

The World Bank  recently published a Report titled "Strengthening Road Safety Management: System Review Guidelines". These Guidelines aim to equip senior government officials with the means to evaluate and strengthen the management of their road safety system. This Report highlights that improving road safety in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and the associated need to scale [...]

The Horizon Europe research project TRUST has recently released its 2nd Newsletter, providing updates on the activities of the project, which aims to grow a positive Traffic Safety Culture across Europe through a systematic transition towards shared responsibility for safe and sustainable mobility. This version of the Newsletter highlights  two of the Project's Pilots - one [...]

The European Sleep Research Society (ESRS) organized with great success the 28th Congress of the European Sleep Research Society (Sleep Europe 2026) which took place in Maastricht, the Netherlands on 20-23 October 2026. This Event is Europe’s largest gathering in the sleep field, bringing together over 3,000 clinicians, researchers, technologists, students, and trainees. Every two years, thousands of clinicians, [...]

The International Road Traffic Safety Analysis and Data (IRTAD) Group and the International Transport Forum (ITF) organized with great success the 42nd Meeting which took place in Paris, France, on 15-16 October 2026. In this meeting, the latest international road safety developments were discussed. Members and observers from many countries enriched the discussion aimed to improve road safety across the globe. Particular emphasis was [...]

A paper titled "A Systematic Review of Traffic Safety Culture in Relation to New Mobility Modes, Technology and Policy Developments" authored by Dimitrios Nikolaou, Alexandra Laiou, Marios Sekadakis, Daphne Kyprouli and George Yannis has been published in Safety. This Paper systematically reviews recent developments shaping road transport and their implications for TSC across three thematic [...]

The International Road Federation (IRF) organized with great success a Webinar titled "Innovations in Practice: 11 Industry Leaders Show What Trusted Road Delivery Looks Like", which took place online on 7 October 2026 with the active contribution of NTUA. The roundtable previewed the themes of the IRF 2026 Annual Conference, which will take place in [...]

The International Road Traffic Safety Analysis and Data (IRTAD) Group of  the International Transport Forum (ITF) has recently released a Technical Report titled "Serious Injuries in Road Traffic: Guidelines for Collecting Data in Hospitals", drawing on Sweden's two decades of hospital-based injury recording, reaching 70 hospitals nationwide by 2016. These guidelines help road safety and transport authorities work with hospitals to collect [...]

The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI) in cooperation with the Institute for Highway Engineering at RWTH Aachen University is organizing the 21st International Conference Road Safety on Five Continents (RS5C), which will take place in Aachen, Germany, on 21-23 September 2027. The Conference aims to be a leading source of research results [...]