Wednesday, October 29, 2008

International Road Safety Symposium Chania, Crete.

The International Road Safety Symposium, Making Roads Safe...Towards Zero Fatalities on the Road will be held in Chania, Crete, on Wednesday 29 October 2008. The event takes place during the week of biannual meetings of the International and European Road Assessment Programmes (iRAP & EuroRAP).

The Symposium, hosted by the FIA Foundation, the Commission for Global Road Safety, the Greek motoring organisation ELPA, EuroRAP and iRAP, brings together key figures in road safety to discuss topics including the Make Roads Safe Campaign, the OECD-ITF Expert Report Towards Zero, Ambitious Road Safety Targets and the Safe Road System, published on 14 October, the need for safe drivers in safe vehicles on safe roads, road safety in Crete, the relationships between tourism and road safety, the European Road Safety Agenda and road safety in Central and Eastern Europe. A draft programme can be downloaded here.

The keynote address will be given by Kostas Hatzidakis, Minister of Transport & Communications.

The Symposium will also host an exhibition of road safety campaigns.

EuroRAP members and partners will gather on 30-31 October for the biannual plenary sessions, including the 19th technical committee meeting. The two day event will include in depth discussions and presentations showing how:

• EuroRAP is being used to raise the profile of road safety,
• EuroRAP can demonstrate best practice and highlight design innovation in the approach and implementation of road safety engineering,
• the programme is being used in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe to show what needs to be done to reduce the toll of road deaths and serious injuries
• the tools, protocols and resources available within RAP worldwide can help define priorities for action and be embedded in national road safety strategies.