FERSI column: Road safety management in municipalities cannot progress without data and modern technologies
From fragmented inspections to data-driven decisions: strengthening road safety management at the local level
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FERSI column: Safe Automated Driving Needs Smarter Roads
Eight infrastructure priorities for making automated driving safer, more reliable, and interoperable across Europe
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
FERSI column: Road safety must remain priority for public authorities
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 facing. Download the column »
First FERSI column released: Bicycles are dangerous
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 or opinion on a topic of his/her choice. The first…