09Mar
08Mar
10th CITA Regional Asia / Australasia Meeting
CITA is glad to inform you that the 2016 annual meeting of the CITA Regional Advisory Group Asia/Australasia and Working group 8 on 2-3 wheeler (RAG AA – WG 8) will be held on 25-26 May 2016, in the Westin Chosun Hotel, Seoul, Korea.
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04Mar
Symposium on the Future Networked Car
GENEVA - SWITZERLAND. On 3rd March 2016, ITU and UNECE have convened the Symposium on The Future Networked Car, within the 86th Geneva International Motor Show.
Intelligent transport systems and automated driving are fast moving towards widespread commercialization and market acceptance. (more…)
02Mar
Road Safety Workshop: Best Practices and Key Partnerships for Road Safety
GENEVA – SWITZERLAND (22nd – 23rd February 2016). Every year 1.25 million lives are lost worldwide as a result of road crashes and 20 to 50 million more are injured. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development aims at halving road traffic deaths and injuries by 2020.
In 2015, the UN Secretary General appointed his Special Envoy for Road Safety, Mr. Jean Todt, in effort to raise attention on need for greater road safety. To contribute to this objective, and on the occasion of the 78th session of the UNECE Inland Transport Committee, the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety has hosted on the 22nd of February at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, a Road Safety Workshop. (more…)
25Feb
A new visual identity
What we are and where we're going.
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM (18th February 2016). We are proud to present our Annual report 2015 and to announce the launch of a new logo, to reveal our newly designed website, as part of the ongoing evolution of CITA.
The Annual report 2015 is a compendium of our activities for the year 2015 and it can be downloaded quickly and easily, or read online. (more…)
18Jan
The Global Road Safety Facility – GRSF partnership meeting
WASHINGTON – 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.
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10Dec
Reducing serious road traffic injuries – a big challenge ahead
Reducing 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…)
