The 4th IRTAD Conference took place in Seoul and brought together more than 100 road safety experts from around the world to discuss the use of safety data for setting targets and monitor road safety performance and to encourage knowledge transfer for data collection and analyses.
NTUA presentations concerned:
CADaS – A common road accident data framework in Europe
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 5th International Conference on Protection of children in cars took place in Munich, in December 2007. An interdisciplinary forum of engineers, experts in biomechanics and pediatrists in children’s hospitals were in the focus as well as the advances in child restraint systems and their interaction with the car.
NTUA presented ‘How safe are children in cars on European roads?’.
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 seminar for Road Safety in Greece – Trends and Perspectives organised by the Hellenic Institute of Transportation Engineers within the framework of the 1st Global Road Safety week took place in Athens in April 2007.
NTUA made the ‘Presentation of the second Strategic Plan for Road Safety’.
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 first SafetyNet Conference and Workshop on European accident data and road and vehicle safety policy, organised by Loughborough University took place in Prague in May 2006. The purpose of the conference is to examine the ways in which data driven road and vehicle safety policies are formed and identify the new challenges that will come with new technologies and post-2010 casualty reduction targets.
NTUA presented:
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.
The EXPOSEC homeland and corporate security conference was organised by the British Embassy took place in Athens in March 2006.
NTUA presented ‘Strategic plan for the improvement of road safety’.
The ETSC Best in Europe Conference on e-safety, organised by the European Transport Safety Council took place in Brussels in February 2006. It aimed to provide an inspirational annual showcase for best practice measures and innovation in road safety in Europe.
NTUA presented ‘Road accident data in the enlarged European Union – learning from each other’.
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’.
