Category News

11th Young Researchers Seminar

The 11th Young Researchers Seminar took place from 15 to 17 May 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal, hosted and organised by LNEC, the Portuguese National Laboratory for Civil Engineering. It was a great and inspiring event. Around 35 enthusiastic young researchers…

ICSC2023 – Call for abstracts

The 11th edition of the International Cycling Safety Conference (ICSC) will be hosted by SWOV in The Hague from 15 to 17 November 2023. ICSC is a forum for researchers and experts in the field of cycling safety, whose scientific…

Final Event MEDIATOR project, 13 April 2023, the Hague

The Horizon 2020 project MEDIATOR cordially invites you to its Final Event on Thursday the 13th of April 2023 in The Hague, the Netherlands. The event is free of charge. For more information about the programme and for the registration…

Essential European road safety research lacking

In a position paper, FERSI expresses its concern that European road safety research is no longer delivering what it ought to, impeding the improvements needed to achieve the European ambitious road safety targets. The paper details how the structure of…

PIARC World Road Congress, 2-6 October 2023, Prague

Every four years, the World Road Association PIARC organises a World Road Congress (WRC) with the aim to share techniques and experiences worldwide in the field of road infrastructures and road transport. The XXVIIth WRC will be held in Prague…

FERSI column: Is e-scooter sharing declining?

A new FERSI column is available. This one is written by Luca Persia, Director of the Research Centre for Transport and Logistics (CTL) of Sapienza University of Rome. The column reflects on the rise and the current downsizing of e-scooters,…

Season’s greetings

Every year has its ups and downs. Unfortunately, 2022 was a year with many downs: COVID was still among us with restricting measures in many countries, a war started, as did an energy crisis, hugely rising inflation, as well as increasing…

TRA Special Honorary Award for Rune Elvik

FERSI warmly congratulates Rune Elvik, who received the Special Honorary Award during the Transport Research Arena (TRA) conference 2022 in Lisbon. He received the award for his outstanding and well-recognized contribution to road safety research and innovation throughout his career.…

An inspiring FERSI conference

On 6 and 7 October the FERSI conference took place in The Hague, the Netherlands. The challenging theme of the conference Implementing evidence-based road safety measures – Removing barriers and enhancing public support attracted an eclectic combination of researchers, policy…