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FAST-zero’25, the “8th International Symposium on Future Active Safety Technology toward zero traffic accidents”, will be held from 23 to 26 September 2025 in Arles, a city with an history…

How has FERSI developed these past years?Traditionally, FERSI has been an advocate for road safety research and a network for road safety research organisations. Shortly after I started as president,…

At the General Assembly at KTI in Budapest on 7 and 8 November, the FERSI members unanimously elected Luca Persia as their new President. Luca is the Director of the…

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 »

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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….

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The second FERSI column by Dominique Mignot, Université Gustave Eiffel and vice-president of FERSI, calls for continued attention for road safety despite the many other challenges that the world is…

In 4 months, the TRA 2022 conference will reunite in Lisbon (14-17 November 2022) experts from around the world to network and discuss the newest innovations and the future of mobility and…

The detailed programme for the FERSI Conference is now available. The conference programme includes plenary sessions with keynotes by Geertje Hegeman, Head of the Road Safety Department at the Dutch Ministry of…

A few times per year FERSI will release a column on a road safety topic, written by one of the FERSI members. These columns will express the author’s personal vision…

After a professional career of 50 years in road transport, Dr Jacek Malasek retired. Jacek represented the Polish Research Institute of Road and Bridges (IBDiM) in FERSI for almost 20 years….

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

There are quite a few proven effective measures that are hardly implemented because of real or presumed barriers. On Thursday 14 October FERSI organised a successful online symposium on exactly…

On 14 October 2021 FERSI will organise an online symposium: Implementing evidence-based road safety measures, removing barriers and enhancing public support. FERSI announces the speakers and panelists at the symposium. …

On 14 October 2021 (13:30-15:30 CET) FERSI will organise an online symposium: Implementing evidence-based road safety measures, removing barriers and enhancing public support. 

This is the theme of the final event of the BE OPEN project that will take place on 9 June 2021, 13:00 to 16:00 CET. The event is free of charge and open…

‘Streets for Life’ is the slogan of the 6th UN Global Traffic Safety Week (17 – 23 May 2021), calling for 30 km/h speed limits to be the norm for…

How do ordinary road users interact with self-driving buses in ordinary road traffic? Join the final seminar to hear the results on April 28th at 9 AM (CEST). The main…

The International Transport Forum (ITF), together with the European Conference of Transport Research Institutes (ECTRI), the US Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS),…

Unfortunately, due to the developments regarding COVID, FERSI has decided to postpone the FERSI conference until 2022. For FERSI as a network organisation par excellence, it was felt that meeting each…

We are very pleased to announce a new FERSI member: the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences (FPZ) of the University of Zagreb, Croatia. FPZ is an iRAP Centre of…

Our beloved colleague Prof. Dr. Petér Holló passed away. Péter was in FERSI for a long time, representing KTI Institute for Transport Sciences. He was Executive Board member for several years….

The International Transport Forum published the IRTAD 2020 Road Safety Annual Report. It provides an overview of the road safety performance in 42 countries. An Ask-the-Author webinar is scheduled for 4…

ESRA2 is offering six free one-hour webinars in advance of the 2021 international conference (tentatively scheduled for March 2021). These webinars are hosted by the ESRA partners across the world who are…

Based on the input from FERSI members, FERSI compiled a report on the legal status, usage and safety of e-scooters in 18 European countries. It shows that the legal status…

In July, ETSC published a PIN briefing on the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on road deaths in April 2020, when most countries were in lockdown. Data were available from 25…

One of our FERSI members, the Department of Technology, Management and Economic at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), invites applications for positions as Assistant or Associate Professor in Transport…

The TRA2020 conference, scheduled for April 2020, had to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Abstracts of all scientific papers accepted to TRA2020 will be made available in a…

The United Nations Road Safety Collaboration (UNRSC) recently published the document Towards the 12 Voluntary Global Targets for Road Safety – Guidance for countries on activities and measures to achieve the…

ECTRI, in partnership with the International Transport Forum (ITF), the US Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS), is co-organising the ITF 2020 Pre-Summit…

The first Drive2theFuture Workshop will be held in Brussels on 6 March. Drive2theFuture is a Horizon 2020 project, endorsed by FERSI, and coordinated by CERTH/HIT. The project deals with user…

FERSI is pleased to announce the publication of its new position paper. The paper intends to offer guidance to Member States on developing a national road safety programme. Its main…

The 10th Young Researchers Seminar will be held on 9-11 June 2021 in Portorož , Slovenia. It will be hosted by the Faculty of Maritime Studies and Transport of the…

We are very pleased to announce that the Department of Technology, Management and Economics of the Danish Technical University DTU joined FERSI again. With DTU we have another strong and…

FERSI published a technical paper that sets out a scientifically valid method for assessing the prevalence of mobile phone use of car drivers, cyclists and pedestrians through on-road observations and…

The TRA2020 conference will take place in Helsinki from 27 to 30 April 2020. Registration has opened now at traconference.eu. TRA, the Transport Research Arena, is a large biannual European research and…

On 18 September the European project SaferAfrica concluded its work with the conference “Results and future perspectives for road safety in Africa” in Tunis, Tunisia.  The project started 3 years…

FERSI fully supports the European Commission’s policy on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). It its recently released statement (PDF) FERSI concludes that the use of KPIs can be of great help for…

The 6th International Symposium on Highway Geometric Design will take place from 28 June until 1 July 2020 in Amsterdam. Abstract submission is open until April 30th 2019. For more…

At the ERTRAC Annual Conference 2019, early April in Brussels, ERTRAC published the Connected Automated Driving Roadmap. This document is an update of the 2017 roadmap. At this same event,…

Read the latest TRA2020 newsletter. TRA, The transport research arena is the biggest European Research and Technology Conference on transport and mobility. In 2020 TRA brings together the experts from…

FERSI calls upon the European Commission to give road safety a strong and visible position in Horizon Europe, the next EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. In a short…

After two terms as president of the Forum of European Road Safety Research Institutes (FERSI), Horst Schulze (BASt) will be succeeded by Rob Eenink (SWOV). Concurrently, FERSI’s General Secretary Raschid Urmeew (BASt)…