FERSI’s new Board installed, Luca Persia new President
A new Executive Board takes office, with the FERSI Secretariat moving to the CTL (Italy)
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Webinar: Using crowdsourced data to enhance estimation of non-motorized traffic volume
On 15 November the AfroSafe Academy organises the webinar Using crowdsourced data to enhance estimation of non-motorized traffic volume by Dr Valerian Kwigizile. More information and registration »
FERSI column: Forgiving roadsides – the perspective from car and two-wheeler road users
In a new column, FERSI member João Cardoso from the Portuguese Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC) focuses on the importance of roadside safety. Supported by European and national crash data, he points at the urgent need for good and…
FAST-zero’25: call for papers
FAST-zero, the international symposia on Future Active Safety Technology toward zero traffic accidents, brings together researchers and engineers from industry and academia to present the current state-of-the-art and progress in research and development of active safety technologies. FAST-zero’25, the 8th edition…
FERSI column: Automated vehicles’ safety and the human perspective
This new FERSI column, written by Evangelia (Lila) Gaitanidou (CERTH/HIT, Greece), emphasizes that, in the end, upon achieving an adequate level of technology, the success of automated vehicles in improving safety highly fully relies on the users, their acceptance of…
Secondary roads – road safety challenges
This FERSI position paper demonstrates the important contribution of secondary rural roads to the burden of road traffic injuries and fatalities. It identifies the most important road safety challenges and emphasizes the corresponding need for addressing these by introducing appropriate…
FERSI Column: To the core of road crash causes
In a new column, FERSI colleagues Jindřich Frič & Pavel Havránek from the Transport Research Centre, Czech Republic, point at the need of in-depth crash analyses including analyses of the involved vehicles and their damage as well as some recent…
State Agency Road Safety, Bulgaria joined FERSI
We are very pleased to announce a new FERSI member: the State Agency Road Safety (SARS) of Bulgaria. SARS is a governmental body, established in 2019 with the mission to pursue an active policy to improve road safety based on systematic analysis,…
FERSI Column: Road Safety – Identifying the innovations that provide the best crash injury protection for all
In the new FERSI column Professor Astrid Linder (VTI) sets out the need to provide all car occupants with the best crash injury protection and not just the ‘50th percentile male’. Ideally, car safety assessments should account for sex, body…
FERSI column: What is the level of cyclist safety in the Danube Region?
A new FERSI column, this time from Marko Ševrović & Anđelo Marunica (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences). The column presents some results of the SABRINA project, expressing concern about the safety level of the cycling infrastructure in…