Author - Daniele D'Onofrio

The Global Road Safety Facility – GRSF partnership meeting

washingtonWASHINGTON – USA (13th January, 2016) Last Wednesday, CITA has attended the Global Road Safety Facility – GRSF partnership meeting, at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington. GRSF partnership meeting is organized by the World Bank and plays an important role in the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety. In fact, the Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF) is a plan dedicated to the vital issue of road safety, and the activities, measures, and findings that can improve road safety the world over, with emphasis on accelerating and reinforcing the capacity of low and middle-income countries to implement affordable road safety programs. The strategic plan for 2013-2020 reaffirms the GRSF's mission and sets out how it will contribute to the decade of action, leveraging the global expertise of the World Bank, and working in close collaboration with donors and partners. (more…)

Reducing serious road traffic injuries – a big challenge ahead

DG Move1Reducing serious road traffic injuries The European Commission has increased efforts to cut the numbers of serious road traffic injuries as part of its ‘vision zero’ goal. In the past, much Commission work in this area targeted fatalities. Data collection and the creation of a common EU database on road deaths has been a powerful tool facilitating comparison of trends, development of initiatives and more targeted actions. (more…)