The 3rd pan-hellenic Highways Engineering Conference, organised by the Technical Chamber of Greece, took place on 9-10 February 2012 in Athens.

NTUA road safety presentations concerned:

 Safety in Road Design

  Development of a Strategic Plan for the improvement of road safety in Greece, 2011-2020

  Application of the Interactive Highway Safety Design Model (IHSDM) in Greece

  Comparative analysis of road safety parameters on European motorways

  Parameters Affecting Greek Drivers Willingness to Pay for the Avoidance of Road Accidents

 Recording and Evaluation Procedure of Drivers’ Distraction. The Case of Thessaloniki’s Ring Road.

 Contribution to the investigation of behavior of drivers under fatigue, with the use of innovative technologies

  Road Safety Audit: principles and implementation in Greece. The case of Attica Tollway (“Attiki Odos”)

  Development of a methodology for road safety impact assessment of infrastructure projects in Greece

  Analysis of the safety impact of advertising signs on the number of road accidents

The Road Safety Insitute Panos Mylonas (IOAS) in collaboration with the European Transport Council (ETSC) organised a meeting on the 8th of November 2011 at the Zappeion Conference and Exhibition Center in Athens. The objectives of the meeting were the presentation of the AVENUEproject (Actions for Vulnerable, Elderly, Novice Drivers and road Users in Europe) as well as the education through experiential activities with the use of NESTs (Networks & Education for Safety and Traffic).

The 3rd International Conference on Road Safety and Simulation took place in Indianapolis, in September 2011, organised by the Transportation Research Board and the Center for Road Safety Center of Purdue University. NTUA Associate Professor Matthew Karlaftis was member of the Organising Committee.

NTUA presentations concerned:

  An investigation of older driver road safety perceptions and driving performance on freeways

  Is it risky to talk, eat or smoke while driving? Findings from a driving simulator experiment

  Identifying riding profiles parameters from high resolution naturalistic riding data

  Detecting secondary accidents in freeways

  Young drivers and alcohol impaired driving: a driving simulator experiment

  Model for sight distance calculation and three-dimensional alignment evaluation in divided and undivided highways

A United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) conference on Improving Global Road Safety: Setting Regional and National Road Traffic Casualty Reduction Targets was organized in Halkida, in June 2009.

NTUA presented ‘Assessment of Road Safety Measures in Greece’  and ‘National Strategic Plan for the Improvement of Road Safety in Greece (2006-2010)’. Despite some progress in recent years, South Eastern European countries are still suffering from high numbers of causalities on the road.

The Transport Research Arena Conference in 2008, took place in Ljubljana.

NTUA presented:

  Comparative analysis of road safety parameters in the European motorways

  A comparative analysis of drinking and driving related accidents in Southern European countries

  Risk exposure data availability, collection methodologies and use in the EU

The 2nd SafetyNet conference was held in Rome, in April 2008.

NTUA presented:

 How the European Road Safety Observatory can be used to save lives

 Modelling road fatality trends in the European countries

 Risk exposure data availability and compatibility – From data needs to a common European framework

 CADaS – Attaining road accident uniformity at EU level

 Current and future Challenges for road accident data in Europe

The 14th International Conference on Road Safety on Four Continents was organized by the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI), with active support of GRSP (Global Road Safety Partnership), FERSI (Forum of European Road Safety Research Institutes), TRB (Transportation Research Board) and ECTRI (European Conference of Transport Research Institutes) and took place in Thailand in November 2007.

NTUA presented  ‘Implementing the european road safety observatory in the Safetynet project’. 

The first International Conference on Road Safety and Simulation RSS2007, organized by the Inter-Universities Research Centre on Road Safety (CRISS) at the University of Roma Tre took place in Rome in November 2007.

NTUA presented ‘A review of international data files with risk exposure data’.  

The 14th World Congress on ITS took place in Beijing, China in October 2007, with the theme of “ITS for a Better Life”.

NTUA presented ‘Effects of driver accident history on ITS acceptance’.  

This study investigates Greek driver attitudes towards specific systems that have the potential to improve road safety, and traffic and environmental conditions.

Attiki Odos SA together with Attikes Diadromes SA, the Operations Company of Attiki Odos, within their wide range of activities for the promotion of road safety, organized with high success the first Road Safety Seminar on Incident Management, where all aspects of more efficient accident management were highlighted by all the authorities and organizations involved in the field.  

The 11th World Conference on Transportation Research took place in Berkeley, in June 2007.

NTUA presented:

  Comparative assessment of road safety performance in Greece

  Accident risk factors of young drivers and targeted counter measures

During the Global Road Safety Week (23-29 April 2007) a Road Safety Conference, as well as an exhibition of road safety artworks were organised by the Hellenic Institute of Transportation Engineers and the Road Safety Institute Panos Mylonas under the auspices of the Ministry of Transport.

The 13th World Congress and Exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services took place in London, in October 2006. The programme included showcases and demonstration projects, as well as ‘technical visits’ and tours to projects of interest to the ITS community.

NTUA presented ‘Modelling road traffic safety – The In-Safety approach’.  

The Second conference on driver needs in relation to ITS, was organised by VTT took place in Finland in September 2006. There are a lot of choices and decisions for the end-users to make when for instance buying a new car. Their willingness to pay for new technology depends on the benefits expected by the new systems and services.

NTUA presented ‘Greek driver needs on ITS in relation to driver accident history’.  

The 5th PRI World Congress took place in Abu Dhabi in March 2006.

NTUA presented ‘The new European road safety observatory – SafetyNet’. 

The European Commission has decided to initiate the development of the Road Safety Observatory, the project is extensive, lasting over four years, and will build the basic structure of the observatory as well as gathering new data at several levels.

A seminar for car insurance and prevention of road accidents, organised by the Association of Insurance Companies Greece, took place in Athens in February 2006.

NTUA presented ‘Passenger car and two-wheel drivers risk analysis in Greece’. 

The European Transport Conference organised by the Association for European Transport took place in Stasbourg in October 2005.

NTUA presented ‘Intelligent Transport Systems Today: A European perspective’.  

An international conference ‘Towards a safer Europe: time for action’, organised by the World Health Organisation and the Center for Research and Prevention of Injuries among the young took place in Eretria, Greece, in 2005.

NTUA presented ‘Current and future potential of CARE and the European Road Safety Observatory’.