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What is the project about?
Background
•The UN Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020 has begun.
•The European Union and development banks have new safety requirements for the road projects they will support.
•A European Road Safety Area has been proposed to ensure road networks are consistently safe for travel between European countries.
•There are growing calls from the European Parliament and motoring clubs to eliminate high risk roads, particularly on busy major national and regional networks where the majority of road deaths are concentrated.
Deaths and injuries from road traffic crashes are a major and growing public health epidemic. In South East Europe, more than 10,000 people lose their lives annually, with a further 100,000 seriously injured. The cost of all road crashes (excluding traffic delay costs) exceeds 2% of the region’s GDP annually. The region contains newly motorising countries where growth in road crashes is not yet fully stabilised, countries where basic stabilisation has taken place and countries where action is leading to declining road deaths at varying rates. In every country the safety of roads carrying high traffic flows is not fit for 21st century purpose.
About SENSOR Project
The South East Neighbourhood Safe Routes (SENSOR) project builds on outstanding cooperation between automobile clubs, universities and road authorities. Co-financed by the South East Europe (SEE) Transnational Cooperation Programme and the European Union, the 2-year project brings together 14 countries – Greece, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Republic of Moldova, Serbia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Albania, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Romania, and Ukraine.
Most countries in South East Europe are constructing new roads or rehabilitating existing roads to achieve mobility benefits and need assistance to target investment so that they can raise the overall level of safety performance of routes in a measurable way. Some countries currently have safety programmes focusing on blackspots which, while highly effective at a local level, are not of a scale proportionate to the loss of life and limb.
Development banks globally have jointly announced their support for safety ratings and improving infrastructure safety performance measurably as part of their UN Decade of Action for Road Safety commitment. The SENSOR project takes safety rating to the next level – moving from measurement to action by identifying the risks that road users face from infrastructure and the changes that can save the most lives for the money available.
To do so, Project Partners will apply the latest tools from the International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP), a charity supporting countries and financial institutions worldwide during the UN Decade. The results give GPS-mapped sites where improvements, often as simple as barriers, school crossings or roadside hazard clearance, can make a difference.
Work Programme
Together, SENSOR partners will develop plans to eliminate high risk roads through:
1.a programme of Risk Mapping on the trans-European road network (TEN-T) throughout the SEE Programme Area based on recorded deaths and serious injuries and traffic censuses;
2.a fuller programme of Risk Mapping in participating countries to include busy national and regional roads, or to determine the limitations of existing data recording systems on networks where this cannot be achieved;
3.a programme of road inspections in participating countries on a network on which road deaths are concentrated and undertake (i) safety rating of this infrastructure (Star Rating) for up to 4 road-user classes, and (ii) "bank ready" high-return Safer Roads Investment Plans (SRIP) capable of being implemented as free-standing schemes, within periodic maintenance or within new build and rehabilitation programmes;
4.a programme of mass communications and professional outreach and training involvinginternational figures and celebrities to enable public, political and professional support for safe infrastructure programmes.
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Partners & observers
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The following table shows the countries and territories taking part in the SENSOR project. Institutions responsible for activities within the SENSOR project are listed, along with contact details for each.
GreeceMake Roads Safe Hellas [MRSH] (Lead Partner)
www.makeroadssafehellas.comEvangelos Bellos
Project Manager
Atrina Center, 32 Kifisias Av., 15125 Marousi
Phone: (30) 28210 36438
Email: vbellos@mrsh.grAnna Voulgaridou
Project Co-ordinator
Gerasimou Pardali 30, Chania, 73131 Greece
Phone: (30) 28210 36438
Email: avoulgaridou@mrsh.grOlivera Djordjevic
Project Officer
Atrina Center, 32 Kifisias Av., 15125 Marousi
Phone: (30) 28210 36438
Email: olivera@mrsh.grAttikes Diadromes [ADSA] (Observer)
www.attikesdiadromes.grBill Halkias
Attica Tollway 419, Paiania, 19002 Greece
Phone: (30) 210 668200
Email: bhalkias@attikesdiadromes.gr
SlovakiaSlovakian Auto-moto Club [SAMS] (Partner)
www.sams-asn.skDr Martin Juck
Fatranka 3, Nitra, 94901 Slovakia
Phone: (421) 37 6554697
Email: juck.martin@gmail.com
HungaryKTI Institute for Transport Sciences [KTI] (Partner)
www.kti.huProfessor Peter Hollo
Than Karoly 3-5, Budapest, 119 Hungary
Phone: (36) 1371 5823
Email: hollo.peter@kti.hu
SloveniaAutomobile Association of Slovenia [AMZS] (Partner)
www.amzs.siRobert Staba
Dunajska 128, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Phone: (386) 1 530 5206
Email: staba@amzs.si
Republic of MoldovaAutomobile Club of Moldova [ACM] (Partner)
www.acm.mdVirginia Usatii
Burebista Street 112, Kishinev, MD-2032, Republic of Moldova
Phone: (373) 222 00012
Email: virginia.ust@gmail.comState Chancellory of Moldova [SCM] (Observer)
www.gov.mdRadu Bezniuc
Piata Marii Adunari Nationale Street 1, Chisinau, MD-2033 Republic of Moldova
Phone: (373) 22 250 314
Email: radu.bezniuc@gov.md
SerbiaAutomobile and Motorcycle Club of Serbia [AMSS] (Partner)
www.amss.org.rsVioleta Maksimovic
Ruzveltona 18, Belgrade, 11000 Serbia
Phone: (381) 11 3331114
Email: violeta.maksimovic@amss.org.rsMinistry of Infrastructure and Energy [MIE] (Observer)
www.mie.gov.rsDragan Jovanovic
Nemanjina 22-26, Belgrade, 11000 Serbia
Phone: (381) 11 3616292
Email: dragan.jovanovic@mi.gvs.rs
FYROMAutomobile Club of Macedonia [AMSM] (Partner)
www.amsm.com.mkMirko Gigov
Ul "Ivo Lolar Ribar" 51, Skopje, 1000 Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Phone: (389) 231 81106
Email: mgigov@amsm.com.mkMinistry of Transport and Communications [MTC] (Observer)
www.mtc.gov.mkStevco Jolanski
Crvena Skopska Opstina 4, Skopje, 1000 Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Phone: (389) 2 3145535
Email: jolanski@mtc.gov.mk
Bosnia and HerzegovinaAutomobile Club of Bosnia and Herzegovina [BIHAMK] (Partner)
www.bihamk.baMersiha Imsirovic
Skendrija 23, Sarajevo, 71000 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Phone: (387) 33 212770
Email: m.imsirovic@bihamk.baFederal Ministry of Transport and Communications [FMTC] (Observer) Pavo Boban
Brace Fejica 1, Mostar, 88000 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Phone: (387) 36 550025
Email: fmpiksa@bih.net.baRC Roads of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina [PCRFBH] (Observer) Reuf Boracic
Terezje 54, Sarajevo, 71000 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Phone: (387) 22 250402
Email: reufb@jpcfbih.baActivities in the following countries are being managed by Partner organisations listed above.
AlbaniaAutomobile Club of Albania [ACA] (Observer)
www.aca.alEno Zenelli
Rruga "Ismail Qemail" 32/1, Tirana, 1019 Albania
Phone: (355) 42 387011
Email: eno.zenelli@aca.al
BulgariaAutomobile Cuib of Bulgaria [UAB] (Observer)
www.uab.orgGuergui Mihaylov
Pozitano Square 3, Sofia, 1000 Bulgaria
Phone: (359) 2 9880002
Email: gmihaylov@uab.org
CroatiaAutomobile Club of Croatia [HAK] (Observer)
www.hak.hrHrvoje Pecnik
Avenija Dubrovnik 44, Zagreb, 10010 Croatia
Phone: (385) 166 23134
Email: pecnik@hak.hr
MontenegroAutomobile Association of Montenegro [AMSCG] (Observer)
www.amscg.orgDamir Opacic
Rimski Trg 60, Podgorica, 1000 Montenegro
Phone: (382) 20 234467
Email: voleti@t-com.me
RomaniaTransport Corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia [TRACECA] (Observer)
www.traceca-org.orgIrina Popescu
Dinicu Golescu Bd 1, Bucharest, 1000 Romania
Phone: (40) 21 3196163
Email: traceca@mt.ro
UkraineOdessa Regional Council [ORC] (Observer)
www.kmu.gov.ua/control/Alex Goncharenko
Shevchenko Avenue 4, Odessa, 65032 Ukraine
Phone: (380) 487 189303
Email: alex.goncharenko@od.ua
All SENSOR CountriesFIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society [FIA] (Observer)
www.fiafoundation.orgDavid Ward
60 Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DS, UK
Phone: 44 (0) 207 747 5191
Email: david.ward@fiafoundation.orgInternational Road Assessment Programme [IRAP] (Observer)
www.irap.orgBrenda King
Worting House, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG23 8PX, UK
Phone: (44) 1256 345598
Email: Brenda.king@irap.orgEastern Alliance for Safe and Sustainable Transport [EASST] (Observer)
www.easst.co.ukEmma MacLennan
Ashford Road, Ransley Oast, High Halden, Ashford, Kent, TN26 3LL
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Events
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February 2013 25.02.2013
01.03.2013ITC 75th ITC Jubilee Session Geneva, Switzerland 26.02.2013
28.02.2013RTIRN regional training workshop Washington March 2013 04.03.2013
05.03.20134th Road Safety International Conference Sydney, Australia 04.03.2013
06.03.2013Intertraffic China 2013 Shanghai, China 07.03.2013 IRF Webinar on Data Collation and Statistical Practices to Support Road Safety Policies Online Webinar 16.04.2013
18.04.2013International Highway Technology Summit Beijing ,China 19.03.2013
20.03.2013IRF Regional Conference: North Africa – Mediterranean Marrakech, Morocco 19.03.2013
21.03.2013Brazil Road Expo 2013 Sao Paolo, Brazil 26.03.2013
28.03.201314th REAAA Conference – The Road Factor in Economic Transformation Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia April 2013 16.04.2013
18.04.2013TRAFFEX 2013 Birmingham, UK 18.04.2013
20.04.20138th International Conference “Road safety in the community” Valjevo, Serbia 21.04.2013
26.04.2013IRF Safer Roads by Design Across Six Continents II Orlando, USA 23.04.2013 Global Road Safety Film Festival Paris, France 24.04.2013
26.04.20132013 National Rural Transportation Conference Greenville, USA May 2013 06.05.2013 European Road Safety Day Brussels, Belgium 06.05.2013
12.05.2013UNRSC Global Road Safety Week – Pedestrian Safety Brussels, Belgium 07.05.2013 2013 Decade of Action Policy & Donor Forum St Petersburg, Russia 14.05.2013
17.05.2013FIA Region I Spring Meeting Vienna, Austria 15.05.2013
17.05.2013Road Safety on Four Continents Beijing, China 15.05.2013
17.05.20132nd IRF Caribbean Regional Congress Bridgetown, Barbados 22.05.2013
24.05.2013International Transport Forum – Annual Summit Leipzig, Germany June 2013 04.06.2013
05.06.2013Towards Zero Conference Stockholm, Sweden 12.06.2013
13.06.20137th IRU Euro-Asian Road Transport Conference Amman, Jordan 17.06.2013
19.06.2013ISTTT20 - the 20th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory Netherlands 17.06.2013
29.06.2013Senior Road Executives Programme 2013 Birmingham, UK July 2013 19.06.2013 The International Congress: Mobility and Road Safety in an Ageing Society Vienna, Austria 15.07.2013
18.07.2013The 13th World Conference on Transportation Research Rio de Janeiro, Brazil August 2013 25.08.2013
28.08.2013T2013 International Conference Brisbane, Australia 26.08.2013
28.08.2013XXVIIIth International Baltic Road Conference Vilnius, Lithuania September 2013 10.09.2013
14.09.2013Walk21 Conference Munich, Germany 18.09.2013
20.09.20132nd African Infrastructure Projects Johannesburg, South Africa 25.09.2013 Road Safety Support National Safer Roads Partnerships' Conference 2013 Manchester, UK 30.09.2013
02.10.2013European Transport Conference 2013 Germany October 2013 22.10.2013 4th Road Safety Conference 2013 Rome, Italy 29.10.2013
30.10.2013International Seminar National Road Safety Policies and Programmes Buenos Aires, Argentina November 2013 06.11.2013
07.11.2013International Conference “Global challenges in Public Private Partnerships: cross-sectoral and cross disciplinary solutions?” Belgium 09.11.2013
13.11.2013IRF World Meeting 2013 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia December 2013 January 2014 February 2014 March 2014 April 2014 14.04.2014
17.04.2014Transport Research Arena (TRA) 2014 Paris, France May 2014 18.05.2014
21.05.20144th International Safer Roads Conference Cheltenham, UK June 2014 July 2014 August 2014 September 2014 October 2014 November 2014 December 2014 -
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Links
- South East Europe - Transnational Cooperation Programme
- European Union Regional Policy
- ROad safety in South East European regions - ROSEE
- FIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society
- The International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP)
- The European Road Assessment Programme (EuroRAP)
- World Health Organisation (WHO)
- WHO (Secretariat, UN Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020)
- The European Road Safety Charter
- EASST Eastern Alliance for Safe and Sustainable Transport
- UN Global Road Safety Week
- Road Safety Fund
- The Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF)
- Make Roads Safe - The Campaign for Global Road Safety
- The European Campaign for Safe Road Design
- Global Road Safety Partnership
- European Transport Safety Council (ETSC)
