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17 May 2012
Road safety has been included in the draft Rio+20 ‘outcome document’ during negotiations at the UN in New York.
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03 May 2012
The IRTAD Road Safety Annual Report 2011 has been released by the International Transport Forum at the OECD. The report shows the drop in road fatalities accelerated in 2010, but developments are less positive in 2011.
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24 April 2012
All buses and lorries in the UK should be fitted with collision-avoidance technology by 2015, a report has recommended.
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24 April 2012
The European Parliament IMCO and TRAN committees held a joint meeting on 24 April 2012 to discuss the draft report “eCall: a new 112 service for citizens”.
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24 April 2012
“The road is now paved for the European Commission to follow the key recommendations on eCall set out by the European Parliament”, said Werner Kraus, President of the FIA Region I office, ahead of a joint meeting of the European Parliament TRAN and IMCO committees to discuss an own-initiative report on eCall today.
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12 April 2012
The Swedish Motorcyclists Association, SMC, has worked for a long time to get more motorcycle friendly crash barriers. Finally barriers with Motorcycle Protection Systems, MPS, will be tested.
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04 April 2012
With the latest statistics showing that 85 people are killed on European roads every day, Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas told the press, on 29 March, that the European Commission is worried.
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08 March 2012
Innovation and legislation have reduced driving risks, and vehicles will become safer still in the future as new technologies are developed.
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08 March 2012
New vehicles alone will not solve Europe's climate, safety and congestion problems. Road infrastructure is being developed that will change the way we drive.
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20 February 2012
This leaflet shows the situation at the end of 2010 and the
progress made since 2001. Its purpose is to allow Member
States and European citizens to compare their situation and to
encourage them to continue their efforts regarding road safety.
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20 October 2011
Road safety charity the IAM (Institute of Advanced Motorists) launched a new website today, drivingadvice.org.uk, to help motorists prepare their cars and drive them safely this winter. The site also contains traffic updates and weather forecasts.
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20 October 2011
In June 2012 world leaders will meet in Rio de Janiero for the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development to identify challenges and agree new priorities for the international community.
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07 October 2011
Bosnia and Herzegovina has pledged itself to the FIA’s Action for Road Safety campaign with a programme intended to educate the country on the enormous benefits of wearing seatbelts and fitting child restraints.
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02 October 2011
A road safety action programme by the end of 2011, with a detailed catalogue of measures and implementing timetable: this is what the European Parliament asks of the European Commission in a resolution on road safety, adopted in plenary on 27 September.
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01 October 2011
Electronic Stability Control and Blind Spot Monitoring were two of seven life-saving eSafety technologies tested by Polish rally champions Tomasz Kuchar and Jan Chmielewski at Warsaw City Council on the first of October 2011.
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08 July 2011
The European Commission has today published new statistics showing that EU road fatalities decreased by 11% in 2010.
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30 June 2011
The European Bureau of the FIA, representing more than 35 million motoring consumers via its 71 member clubs, adopted its position on the European Commission White Paper on Transport on 30 June 2011.
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11 May 2011
The deployment of life saving eSafety technologies in cars is the focus of a new free iPhone application launched today with the support of motorsport’s top drivers. The application is created by the eSafety Challenge project with support from the European Commission, eSafetyAware, FIA, and the FIA Foundation.
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11 May 2011
FIA Road Safety Ambassador, Michael Schumacher, is calling on Members of the European Parliament to make sure eSafety systems are deployed in all new cars through legislation or voluntarily at today’s launch of the UN Decade of Action on Road Safety in Strasbourg.
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02 May 2011
Every six seconds someone is killed or injured in a road accident. Every day 3,500 people are killed in road crashes. Every year 1.3 million people are killed on the world’s roads. And unless urgent action is taken, the UN predicts that annual road deaths will rise to 1.9 million by 2020.
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05 April 2011
The Formula One Driver will attend the eSafety Challenge event on 31st of May in Vienna, where he will demonstrate eSafety technologies and how they can help to prevent accidents on the roads.
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28 March 2011
White Paper on Transport focus on ITS welcomed but higher costs threaten consumer trust, says FIA
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22 March 2011
"We cannot afford to wait until 2017 to make the Antilock Braking System (ABS) compulsory in motorcycles. Our figures show that thousands of road fatalities could be prevented by acting now," the FIA tells EP public hearing.
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23 February 2011
Euro NCAP today publishes the results of seven new vehicles, including its first test of a fully electric car, marking the start of a series of EV tests in 2011.
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30 November 2010
One in five pedestrian crossings failed this year’s EuroTest pedestrian crossing assessment (EPCA). This result, the worst since testing started in 2008.
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19 October 2010
A debate organised by the transport council lay the foundations for a future white paper on infrastructure due in December...
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18 October 2010
Engineers completed drilling the world’s longest tunnel under the Swiss Alps on Friday. Gotthard Base aims at increasing the ratio of freight by rail...
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22 July 2010
The European Commission’s newly adopted Road Safety Strategy launches a new decade of action to reduce the number of road accidents, injuries and deaths over the next ten years.
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20 July 2010
The Commission adopted today the Road Safety Action plan for the next ten years.
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02 December 2009
The EU must promote a programme of safety engineering on high-risk roads across Europe if it is to reduce the annual €160bn (2 per cent of EU GDP) cost of road crashes by €50bn, according to the European Campaign for Safe Road Design.
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29 September 2009
In its answer to the consultation the FIA Eurocouncil will underline the need to have high level commitment, strong leadership, clear objectives and precise targets.
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02 July 2009
As Sweden has taken over the European Union Presidency, the FIA Eurocouncil calls on the Swedish Government to include road infrastructure in the efforts to revive the economies and create jobs, and so invest in the future well-being of European citizens.
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19 June 2009
The FIA Eurocouncil deplores Slovenia’s latest decree fixing a new road toll vignette system for its highway system of just 487km.
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15 June 2009
Chief executives and presidents of FIA automobile clubs for the 2009 FIA Eurocouncil summit to discuss road safety in Europe in anticipation of the 4th European Road Safety Action Programme expected to run from 2011-2020.
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22 April 2009
According to the EuroTAP inspectors, the European Tunnel Assessment Programme (EuroTAP) carried out this year produced a sensational result.
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08 April 2009
According to the first results of a European survey carried out the by the FIA European Bureau, most European visitors want Slovenia to introduce a short-stay vignette at a fair price.
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16 March 2009
Wil Botman, Director-General of the FIA European Bureau, voices concerns about the European Parliament’s vote on the Eurovignette review opening the door to congestion charging for passenger cars.
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25 February 2009
The Community guidelines for the development of the Trans-European network establishes that the Member States shall provide the European Commission with abstracts of national plans.
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05 February 2009
Trans-European transport networks: towards a new policy for meeting future challenges
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04 December 2008
Highways authorities across Europe should follow the lead of France, Spain and the Netherlands, and a appoint a motorcycle champion, tasked specifically with safe road design for bikers.
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16 March 2008
As the leading European mobility organisation, the FIA has unbiased consumer orientated expertise in a variety of transport issues, including road safety, traffic information and incident management.
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28 September 2007
Green Paper on Urban Transport
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15 September 2007
Position of the FIA on the Green Paper on Urban Transport
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