FEVR

Intelligent Transport Systems

Jeannot — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:51:11 +0000

ITS

useful driver assistance systems can help reduce crashes or severe injuries.

Safe drivers following the traffic rules and forgiving and self explaining roads and roadsides are 2 important pillars of the the safe system approach to reduce the dangers on the roads and in the streets.

A 3. important pillar is the passive and active safety of the vehicle. This should also be considered in respect of the safety of the vulnerable road user.

Pedestrian Protection (Vehicle) can be obtained with non aggressive car fronts and intelligent assistance systems like “break assist”

Link European Commission

Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA), alcohol interlocks and seat belt reminders are further 3 promising ITS applications

Further topics FEVR welcomes is “eCall”, Side underrun protection of HGV, Ageing Europe and Adapting Vehicles and ITS , as well as better Car-to-car compatibility and also considering Electric Vehicles and Road Safety

Document by ETSC

FEVR would also welcome progress on in-vehicle Event data recorders

(so called “black box”) devices, which record vehicle situation before and during any

crash. Event data recorders offer first hand information about the causes of a crash and bring Multidisciplinary crash Investigation one step further

Road safety/Cross-border enforcement

Jeannot — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:46:08 +0000

Commission disputes directive’s legal base

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Welcome to Croatia in the EU

Jeannot — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:37:07 +0000

We welcome Croatia as 28. member in the European Union

FEVR has already a victim association from Croatia among his 22 member associations:

Udruga obitelji osoba stradalih u prometu (Ass. of Families of Road Traffic Victims, Croatia)

web

But there are still 12 countries missing on the list:

SWEDEN SLOWAKIA MALTA LITHUANIA LETTLAND HUNGARY BULGARIA CHYPRES TCHEQUE REPUBLIC DENMARK ESTLAND FINLAND

if ever you know about an association of road crash victims in those countries please let us know

Our aim is to have till 2020 an association from every EU country

ETSC calls on the EC for better financing Road Safety

Jeannot — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:39:25 +0000

EU Funds for Road Safety
Saving Lives on EU Roads until 2020
Financing road safety would support the principles that underpin the EU budget. Adopting measures to protect EU citizens right to life and mobility delivers a high EU added value and supports transport, one of the EU common policy areas.
The value of preventing all road collisions in 2010 would have been more than 50% greater than the EU budget11or 1.8% of EU GDP.
Putting a monetary value on prevention of loss of human life and limb can provoke strong reactions on ethical grounds. However, doing so makes it possible to assess objectively the costs and the benefits of road safety measures and to make the maximum use of generally limited resources. Based on updated values in use in ten European countries, ETSC has taken the monetary value of the human losses avoided by preventing one fatality (VPF) to be 1.70 million euro.
NGOs are also crucial in producing scientific knowledge through research and in raising the awareness of the need to take action to improve road safety by the general public. Associations of road safety victims are also important to take into account when balancing interests in EU policy making. NGOs active in the field of road safety should be supported and their networks extended. This should be both at the national level as well as the European level, in particular core funds which guarantee the coverage of an NGO’s basic running costs.

best wishes

Jeannot — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:16:25 +0000

Alcolock to fight drink driving

Jeannot — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:01:28 +0000

Several countries think about introducing measures to reduce recidivism of alcohol related offenders.

The Road Safety Program of the European Parliament includes also some measures related to fitting alcolocks in commercial or recidivist driver vehicles

SWOV Factsheet on alcolocks: FS_Alcolock

ETSC “Safe and Sober Talk” about Alcolock: ETSC-Alcolocks_in_the_EU

TV report: Produce2

French president announces new measures to tackle dangers on the roads

Jeannot — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:13:40 +0000

Sarkozy30.11.11 English

ETSC Pin Flash

Jeannot — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:37:39 +0000

The European Transport Safety Council has just released the new PIN Report ( Performance Index )

Reducing road deaths among young people aged 15 to 30

20.11.2011.World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims

Jeannot — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:53:27 +0000

1)FEVR Press Release

World Day Press Release en (FEVR) 20.11.2011 ( word.doc)

World Day Press Release en _FEVR_ 20.11.2011c (pdf 204 kByte )

2)Power Point Presentation

by Manuel Ramos FEVR vice-president at the UNRSC meeting in Geneva 15.11.11. Presentation WDOR (ppt 3,46 MByte)

3) Message from PRI: Statement english (pdf)

THE EU Parliament and World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims

Thanks to Luxemburg’s MEP Georges BACH member of the Transport Commission, and shadow reporter to the Resolution on Road Safety the WDOR is now also considered officially

EU resol WDOR

The dedicated webpage for WDOR is also refreshed thanks to Brigitte Chaudhry who collects all the information around the world in relation with world day

mail: brigitte.chaudhry@fevr.org

WDOR on FB

Jeannot — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 05:48:12 +0000

The World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, hold every 3. Sunday in November is also present on Facebook