Author: Ioannis Papadogiorgakis
The European Commission with the active contribution of NTUA, SWOV and KFV has published at the European Road Safety Observatory, the Children Facts and Figures Report which looks at road fatalities among children on EU roads. According to this Report, the absolute number of fatalities among children aged 0-14 decreased between 2012 and 2022 by 33% to 455 fatalities in 2022, while the short-term change from 2019 to 2022 is a decline of 7%. The relative share remained constant throughout this time at just over 2% of all EU fatalities. 
A paper titled Estimating the Necessary Amount of Driving Data for Assessing Driving Behavior authored by Anna-Maria Stavrakaki, Dimitrios Tselentis, Emmanoul Barmpounakis, Eleni Vlachogianni and George Yannis has been published in Sensors. The study aims to provide a methodological framework for estimating the amount of driving data that should be collected for each driver in order to acquire a clear picture regarding their driving behavior. Detailed data collected from smartphone sensors were used to test the proposed methodology. The findings suggest that here is no specific time point or number of trips after which driving behavior stabilizes for all drivers and/or all metrics examined. The driving behavior stabilization is mostly affected by the duration of the trips examined and the aggressiveness of the driver. 
