Brussels – The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) has awarded its 2023 Road Safety Performance Index (PIN) Award to Poland for the first time. The country cut road deaths by 47% between 2012 and 2022, a rate only bettered by Lithuania, last year’s winner. The EU average reduction was 22%.
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(31 May 2023. Wien, Austria) CITA, represented by its President Gerhard Müller, took part in the signing of a memorandum of understanding together with the President of Korean transport safety authority Mr. Yongbok Kwon, Mr. Gerald Lackner CEO of AVL DiTEST and Susanne Kaiser from the Austrian Road Safety Board.
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The course on vehicle technical inspection policies, which was held between May 23, 24 and 25, co-organized between CITA and the Transportation Division of the Inter-American Development Bank, concluded yesterday.
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Within the framework of the Global Road Safety Week, declared by the United Nations, the Gonzalo Rodriguez Foundation (FGR) in coordination with PAHO/WHO representation in Uruguay and the support of CITA and the National Road Safety Unit (UNASEV), organized the meeting “Re-pensar la Movilidad” (Rethinking mobility), to work towards an active and safety mobility in Uruguay.
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The results of the study “The Impact of Periodic Passenger Vehicle Safety Inspection Programs on Roadway Fatalities: Evidence from US States Using Panel Data” have been recently officially published. This research study, led by Prithvi S. Acharya, Laila AitBihiOuali, Daniel J. Graham and H. Scott Matthews, and partially supported by CITA, is another perfect example of how vehicle inspection is crucial to road safety and saving lives.
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Rosmerta Technologies Limited is the leading organization in India in e-governance field and it does business in ten different verticals, in transport domain. They are the largest operator in India for establishing and operating Automated Vehicle Inspection and Certification Centre (PTI Centre).
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As part of a new United Nations Global Road Safety Week (15-21 May 2023), Fundación Gonzalo Rodríguez, with the support of UNASEV, WHO/PAHO and CITA, will carry out an activity, on Tuesday 16 May, to rethink mobility in Uruguay, according to the recommendations of the Global Road Safety Plan developed by the United Nations. This seventh edition focuses on sustainable transport, in particular the need to walk, cycle and use public transport. Road safety is both a prerequisite and a result of this change.
The activity will include a conservatory and a practical laboratory for the implementation of public policies in the territory, aimed at decision-makers at national and departmental level.
For those interested in participating, you can contact the Foundation directly via email.
The Fundación Gonzalo Rodríguez is a Latin American non-profit Non-Governmental Organization. Our mission is to eliminate serious injuries and deaths caused by traffic accidents, promoting safe and healthy mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean, keeping alive the memory of "Gonchi" as a source of inspiration for our work.
PAHO/WHO the international public health organization of the Americas. It works every day with the countries of the region to improve and protect the health of their populations. It provides technical cooperation in health to its member countries, combats communicable diseases and attacks chronic illnesses and their causes, strengthens health systems and responds to emergencies and disasters.
UNASEV. Uruguay, on the recommendation of the World Health Organization, created by law in 2007 the National Road Safety Unit (UNASEV) to regulate and control activities related to traffic and road safety throughout the national territory.
In the frame of the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has shared a new report with the commitment to continue investing in actions to reduce road crashes in the region.
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