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In this update of its Safe Road Transport Research Roadmap published in 2019, ERTRAC proposes a set of high-priority road safety research needs with their suggested timing for inclusion in Horizon Europe. The updated roadmap is available at ertrac.org.

The next HUMANIST Summer School will be held in Vienna, Austria, from 14 to 16 September 2022. Its main topics are human factors, automated driving, and active mobility. Programme and registration are available now at humanist-vce.eu.

You can now register for the FERSI conference Implementing evidence-based road safety measures – removing barriers and enhancing public support on 6 and 7 October 2022 in the Hague, the Netherlands. More information about the conference, a preliminary programme outline, practical details, as well as a link to the registration tool is available here.

The Forum of European Road Safety Research Institutes FERSI notes with dismay the alarming situation in Ukraine and finds the invasion of a sovereign democratic nation by Russian forces outrageous and unacceptable. These actions are undermining global security and stability and have led to deplorable human suffering and loss of life.

In the interests of peace and stability in international relations, we call for an end to the hostilities and for a resolution that respects the sovereignty of Ukraine and all its people. FERSI stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine, along with those in Russia who are courageously manifesting their rejection of war. We wish the citizens of Ukraine great strength in resisting and overcoming this shocking crisis.

We note that scientists and scientific journalists in Russia have issued the following open letter on the situation.

The International ESRA Conference on Traffic Safety Culture and Performance Indicators will take place on 21 April 2022, online. More information and the provisional programme can be found here. Registration is required – participation is free. Visit esranet.eu to register.

The Road Safety on Five Continents (RS5C) conference will take place on 10-12 October 2022 in Grapevine, Texas, USA. The call for abstracts is open until 15 March 2022.

The 11th Young Researchers Seminar will be held from 17 to 19 May 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal, hosted and organised by LNEC, the National Laboratory for Civil Engineering.

The YRS is organised every two years in a different European country. The common vision for the Young Researchers Seminar is the preparation of a new generation of transport scientists and science-based professionals in the area of  transport (multimodal).
The objectives are:
-To train young researchers belonging to the Supporting Organizations’ members of ECTRI, FEHRL, FERSI, EURNEX, HUMANIST and from United States’ universities, to prepare papers and present oral scientific communications, by direct interaction with assigned tutors.
-To enable the exchange and networking opportunities of young transport researchers with their peers and tutors. Therefore, this seminar is not only aimed at building up scientific excellence, it also seeks at improving presentation skills and the ability to communicate science.

The seminar focuses on following research domains:

• Transport economics, policy, and transport behaviour
• Transport sustainability and environment
• Transport safety
• Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) & Traffic management
• Transport logistics and freight
• Road, rail and maritime transport engineering

The young researchers are incited to participate by their own organisations (institutes or universities). They are novice researchers, preferably PhD students (postdoctoral may also be  accepted, within  1-2  years after their PhD). They are involved in (at least) one of the research domains. Attention isa lso given on ensuring a balanced representation among the organisations based on the following criteria:

• Maximum 1 young  researcher per research domain for organisations with more than 300 staff,
• Maximum 3 young researchers in total for organisations with less than 300 staff,
• And maximum 1 US young researcher per research domain. The tutors are senior researchers from the supporting organizations but also from United States’ universities.

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FERSI is organising a two-day conference for researchers and policy makers on 6 and 7 October 2022 in the Hague. FERSI invites you to submit a proposal for a contribution.

This contribution would focus on implementation of proven, highly effective measures for, combinations of, some of the world’s main road safety challenges listed below, illustrating which implementation barriers were encountered and how these were dealt with, including, for example, political barriers, legal and liability concerns, lack of public support, or level of road safety culture. 

– Read more about the FERSI Conference 2022 »
– Read more about the call for contributions »

Timeline

• Submission of proposal: March 13, 2022
• Feedback on acceptance + poster or oral presentation: April 2022
• Submission of final contributions: September 9, 2022

FERSI’s General Assembly, in its meeting of 24 November, (re)elected its Executive Board for the next three years: President Rob Eenink (SWOV), Vice-President Dominique Mignot (UE), and members Lila Gaitanidou (HIT/CERTH), Astrid Linder (VTI) and Klaus Machata (KFV). The General Assembly thanked Mateja Markl (APV) for her valuable input as EB member in the past three years.