‘School streets’ schemes have increased five-fold in less than four years and deliver low-cost interventions for cleaner, safer journeys to schools world-wide, according to new global analysis by the Child Health Initiative’s Global Advocacy Hub.
The World Resources Institute’s Vision Zero Challenge has recognized four Latin American cities that have taken important strides to make their streets safer and more equitable in a project supported by the FIA Foundation.
The Global Network for Road Safety Legislators, a network supporting parliamentarians to understand and advocate for global road safety has marked its first five years of activity. The Global Network is coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO) with funding support from the FIA Foundation.
Seven out of ten Moldovans with limited mobility feel unsafe moving around the streets of Chișinău, according to a survey by the Automobile Club of Moldova (ACM), as part of the Equal Road Rights project in partnership with the Center for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CDPD) and Universal Access Ltd and Eastern Alliance for Safe and Sustainable Transport (EASST) with the support of the FIA Foundation.
Child pedestrians are among the highest-risk groups in Mozambique for road traffic injuries, the leading cause of death for children over the age of five in the country.
The Safe System approach to road safety could lead to dramatic reductions in vehicle-related deaths and injuries if implemented in the U.S., according to a report from a consortium of experts convened by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Institute of Transportation Engineers, supported by the FIA Foundation.
A new €15 million Advocacy Hub for safe streets has been launched by the FIA Foundation to support the policy change needed to limit speeds to 30 km/h (20 mph) on streets where children walk, live and play, at the start of UN Global Road Safety Week.