Past events - Page 3
25 May 2016, Wednesday, 9.30 – 16.00 The EU House, Korte Vijverberg 5-6, the Hague, the Netherlands The Institute for Road Safety Research (SWOV), the Forum of European Road Safety Research Institutes (FERSI) and the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) had the pleasure to hold an international high level debate “Prevent crashes, reduce injuries, save lives”. The debate focused on cyclist safety, vehicle automation, road safety research challenges and the importance of road safety performance indicators in policy making. Participants – government representatives, local authorities, researchers, […]
The Road Safety Authority (RSA), in partnership with the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC), hosted the iSafer Conference at Dublin Castle on Thursday 28 April 2016. The event aimed to broaden knowledge and awareness of Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) as a tool to combat speeding. The objective of the ETSC iSafer campaign is to contribute to reducing speed-related road deaths and injuries through the identification and promotion of best practice. The project includes a special focus on ISA and promoting its use at European and […]
Tuesday 19 April 2016, 09.00-13.00 Chalmers Conference Centre, Johanneberg, Chalmers platsen 1, 412 58 Göteborg Chalmers University of Technology, the Swedish Transport Administration, Folksam and the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) held a conference on “What is the way forward on improved speed management?”. For years, speed has been recognised as one of the three main contributing factors to deaths and injuries on our roads. And for more than a decade, ETSC has been advocating the benefits of Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA), a driver assistance […]
Monday 21 March 2016, 09:00-13:30. Hellenic Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks, Anastaseos 2, Pappagos Cholargos 156 69 – Athens, Greece The European Transport Safety Council, together with the Road Safety Institute (RSI) Panos Mylonas organised a round-table event at the Hellenic Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks to raise awareness amongst policy makers, the private sector and key opinion leaders of how to strenghten a systemic approach to reduce alcohol misuse in road transport. The event focused on measures to tackle drink driving […]
ETSC and the Motor Transport Institute (ITS) organised a national conference on tackling drink-driving in Warsaw. The Vice Minister of Infrastructure Piotr Stomma and MEP Boguslaw Liberadzki gave the opening speech. The debate addressed policy and practice on enforcement, penalties, rehabilitation, alcohol interlocks and other measures to discourage and prevent drink driving both at national and EU level. Download the agenda (in Polish) Download the agenda (in English). Presentations Antonio Avenoso, ETSC Insp. Marek Konkolewski, Polish Police Forces Ewe Uwert, Swiss Council for Accident Prevention Sjoerd Houwing, Institute […]
12.00 – 16.30 Stadthalle “Mons Tabor”, Koblenzer Str. 2, 56410 Montabaur The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC), together with the German Road Safety Council, have the pleasure of inviting you to a seminar on work-related road safety to be held in Montabaur on 16th March 2016. The seminar will focus on the key issues affecting German employers in fleet and road-related risk management, and will feature invited experts from across Europe. The PRAISE project (Preventing Road Accidents and Injuries for the Safety of Employees) […]
Breakfast debate, Members Salon, European Parliament, 15 March 2016, 08:00 – 09:00 This event was kindly hosted by Olga Sehnalova MEP More than 200,000 people suffer life-changing injuries on Europe’s roads every year. Since 2010 the number of people seriously injured on EU roads has been reduced by just 1.6%, compared to an 18% decrease in the number of road deaths. Last year the numbers seriously injured actually went up, by more than 3% compared to the previous year. The principle of a separate […]
Dirección General de Tráfico DGT, C/Josefa Valcárcel, 44, Madrid 10.30 – 14.30 Online registration For years, speed has been recognised as one of the three main contributing factors to deaths and injuries on our roads. And for more than a decade, ETSC has been advocating the benefits of Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) , a driver assistance system that a 2014 Norwegian study found to be the ‘most effective’ in saving lives. 2016 could prove to be a turning point in wide adoption of the technology. ISA uses a speed sign-recognition […]
Friday 05 February 2016, 09:00-13:00. Slovenian National Assembly, Šubičeva ulica 4, p. 636 – SI-1102 Ljubljana. The European Transport Safety Council, together with the Slovenian Traffic Safety Agency, organised a round-table event at the National Assembly in Ljubljana to raise awareness amongst policy makers, the private sector and key opinion leaders of how to develop and strenghten a systemic approach to reduce alcohol misuse in road transport. The event focussed on measures to tackle drink driving such as the use of alcohol interlocks, research […]
Lunch debate, Tuesday 12 January 2016, 11:00 – 13:00 Renaissance Brussels Hotel Inés Ayala Sender MEP and the European Transport Safety Council hosted a lunch debate on improving the night time visibility of lorries. In 2011 around 4200 people died on EU roads in collisions involving Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) and 75% of these road deaths were occupants of other vehicles. Road collisions involving HGVs tend to be more serious than other collisions because of the great size and mass of these vehicles. Part […]
5 November 2015, 8:30 – 14:00 Ministry of Transport, Gogola street 3, Riga, Latvia The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) and the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Latvia held a high-level debate on road safety. State Secretary Kaspars Ozoliņš gave the keynote speech. The debate focused on measures needed to improve the safety of pedestrians and cyclists, and to tackle driver fatigue. Participants – government representatives, local authorities, police, researchers, NGOs and other stakeholders – were invited to react to the presentations of good practices […]
10.00 – 16.00 The Arc Room, The Square, Brussels The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) held the 5th Annual European PRAISE Conference on work-related road safety in Brussels on 20 October 2015. The conference brought together fleet safety managers, EU institutions, government representatives, and road safety experts to discuss the latest developments and priorities in work related road safety. The winners of the ETSC PRAISE awards 2015 were also announced. The program included contributions from leading occupational health and safety experts and featured presentations […]
The European Transport Safety Lecture 2015 Monday 19 October 2015, 17:00 Thon Hotel EU, Rue de la Loi 75, Brussels The European Transport Safety Council warmly invites you to the launch event of the YEARS project – which focusses on reducing dangers for young road users in Europe. The event will feature the 2015 European Transport Safety Lecture, this year given by Divera Twisk of SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research, The Netherlands, followed by an expert panel discussion. Agenda Presentations Antonio Avenoso, ETSC […]
14 October 2015, 14:00-17:00 European Commission Representation, Europe House 32 Smith Sq. London, SW1P 3EU ETSC and the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS) organised a national conference on drink driving in London. The debate had the objective of addressing policy and practice on education, enforcement, penalties, rehabilitation, alcohol interlocks and other measures to discourage and prevent drink driving. A focus on the UK drink driving situation and the measures undertaken by the government were given by Elizabeth Shovelton from the Departement of Transport. The legislative […]
Seatbelt reminders and EU vehicle safety legislation 08:00 – 09:00, Breakfast debate, Members’ Salon, European Parliament, Brussels This event was kindly hosted by Dieter-Lebrecht Koch MEP. 500 people die on EU roads every week and road collisions remain the single biggest non-health-related cause of death in Europe. But many of these tragedies could be prevented through the standard-fitting of innovative safety technologies being designed and developed in Europe such as audio-visual Seat Belt Reminder systems. Already required for driver seats on new cars, simply adding […]
The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC), together with the Fundación MAPFRE have the pleasure of inviting you to the next PRAISE seminars on work-related road safety to be held in Madrid on Thursday 1st October and Zaragoza on Friday 2nd October. The seminars will mainly focus on success stories in relation to fleet and road-related risk management, and will feature businesses and experts from across Europe. Interpretation English-Spanish will be provided. Madrid – 1 October – (EN/ES) Agenda – Online registration Zaragoza – 2 […]
21 Septembre 2015, 09:00-13:00 Ministère du Développement durable et des Infrastructures, Salle Vianden, 4 Place de l’Europe, 1499 Luxembourg Le ministère du Développement durable et des Infrastructures (MDDI) du Grand-Duché du Luxembourg et le Conseil européen de la sécurité des transports (ETSC) ont organisé un débat sur la sécurité routière dans le cadre de la Présidence luxembourgeoise du Conseil de l’Union européenne. Ce débat a porté en particulier sur les mesures à prendre afin d’améliorer la sécurité des piétons et des cyclistes. Animé par […]
Ash Suite, Cusack Stand, Croke Park, Dublin 3 The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC), together with the Health and Safety Authority, The Road Safety Authority and Garda Síochána, organised a high-level seminar on work-related road safety in Dublin on 2 July. The seminar focussed on the key issues affecting Irish employers in fleet and road-related risk management, and featured experts from Ireland and across Europe. Download the agenda. Presentations 1. Deirdre Sinnott – HSA 2. Michael Rowland – RSA 3. Con O’Donohue – Garda […]
Norway House, Brussels, 18 June 2015 Last year European progress on improving road safety slowed dramatically. At the 2015 Road Safety Performance Index (PIN) conference, ETSC launched its latest annual report explaining why some countries are still making progress, some stagnated, and several are going in reverse. We also highlighted what the EU and member states need to do to get progress back on track to reach the EU’s 2020 target to cut road deaths by half over ten years. Also on the agenda […]
7 May 2015, Prague, Czech Republic ETSC and the Czech Transport Research Centre (CDV) have the pleasure to invite you to a national conference on tackling drink driving. The event will feature representatives from both the Czech and Slovakian transport ministries and will look at the most effective measures for reducing the number of alcohol-related road deaths. The debate will also be an opportunity to gather EU representatives, national stakeholders and decision makers together with road safety experts and campaigners from across Europe. Download […]