S O L - S A V E O U R L I V E S . A C O M P R E H E N S I V E R O A D S A F E T Y S T R A T E G Y F O R C E N T R A L E U R O P E

THE SOL F INAL CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD IN BRUSSELS ON THE 27TH OF MAY 2013

DEAR READERS

THE SOL eMAGAZINE

The SOL eMAGAZINE is produced by the SOL consor-

tium. All articles are written by the SOL partners. The

responsibility for all contents and statements made

lies with the authors. The eMagazine does not repre-

sent the opinion of the European Communities. The

project „SOL – Save our Lives“ in the Central Europe

Program www.central2013.eu is co-financed by the

European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Find more about SOL on: www.sol-project.eu

Welcome to the tenth issue of the SOL project

eMagazine. In this issue, we would like to put your

attention on our Final Conference that will take

place on 27th of May 2013 in Brussels: all the Pro-

ject Partners of SOL – Save Our Lives, are pleased

to invite YOU!

Moreover we are proud to inform you that the SOL

activities in Austria on awareness raising workshops

for risky, young drivers are nominated for the SYN-

APTIC Awards for Excellence in Seamless Mobility.

Then we focus on the last statistics on road safety

data 2012 published by European Commission and

on a research on people who drive for work and

their accidents risk .

You can also learn more about the Second UN Glo-

bal Road Safety Week to be held 6-12 May 2013

that will be dedicated to pedestrian safety.

Enjoy reading

Alberto Milotti Project Manager SOL

Europe faces annually over 34.000 road fatali-

ties. The number of fatalities in the programme

area Central Europe Space (CEUS) is higher

than in other European regions and has in-

All the Project Partners of SOL – Save Our

Lives, a comprehensive road safety strategy

for Central Europe, are pleased to invite YOU

to our project final conference, that will take

place in Brussels/Belgium on the 27th of May

2013 (from 2PM to 6PM).

The final conference will discuss project

achievements, demonstrating final results on

its pilot activities targeted on innovative ac-

tions for improving Road Safety in the con-

sidered Pilot Areas in Italy, Austria, Hungary,

Poland, Slovenia, Czech Republic and Slova-

kia. The future EU programmes for Road Safe-

ty will also be outlined and discussed with the

representatives of the Road Safety Unit of DG

creased in the past years. The project aims at

giving professional qualities, experiences and

tools to local public administrations to increase

the road safety in their competence areas.

MOVE. Then a round table will be attended by

local politicians who have contributed to the

realisation of the 12 pilot projects in the seven

countries involved.

The event will give Road Safety stakeholders

an outstanding opportunity to exchange their

best practices and know-how and learn more

about Road Safety.

The conference will be free of charge and the

agenda will be available soon on the website.

For more information, please contact the pro-

ject coordinator A.L.O.T at info@alot.it or take

the opportunity to use the online registration

form on the project website:

www.sol-project.eu.

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We are proud to inform you that the SOL

activities in Austria on awareness raising

workshops for risky, young drivers are nom-

The 2013 awards are handed over to organisa-

tions that submitted their good practices to ELTIS

as case studies in 2012 and fit into one of the

three eligibility award categories: the personal

responsibility on the roads.

• best multimodal door-to-door travel solution

• best public transport solution

• best mobility management solution

ELTIS which is an initiative of the EC (managed

by the EACI) and co-ordinated by Austrian Mobil-

ity Research FGM-AMOR facilitates the exchange

of information, knowledge and experiences in

the field of urban mobility in Europe. It is aimed

at individuals working in the field of transport as

well as in related disciplines, including urban and

inated for the SYNAPTIC Awards for Excel-

lence in Seamless Mobility.

The SOL activities in Austria on

awareness raising workshops

for risky, young drivers are nom-

inated for the SYNAPTIC Award

for Excellence in Seamless Mo-

bility.

regional development, health, energy and envi-

ronmental sciences.

ELTIS supports the creation of urban transport

systems, which use less energy and produce

less emissions and increase transport safety,

while improving the quality of life. Created more

than 12 years ago, ELTIS is now Europe’s main

portal on urban mobility.

Among other services like photos and videos

ELTIS offers more than 1570 case studies on dif-

ferent topic areas of urban transport – many of

them translated into several languages. Also in

average 2 news items on what is going on in Eu-

rope are published every day. ELTIS is therefore

a dissemination hub for transport professionals

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to publish their project results and ideas how to

improve the whole transport system.

All services of ELTIS are free of charge. People

who want to download videos or photos for their

own use as well as to receive the monthly ELTIS

Mobility Update (available in 6 languages) are

invited to become a Friend of ELTIS. Registration

doesn’t cost anything, doesn’t bring any obli-

gations or spams and takes not more than 1,5

minutes. So far more than 1670 Friends of ELTIS

are online.

Register at: http://www.eltis.org/index.php?id=74

The European Road Safety Ac-

tion Programme 2011-2020

sets out challenging plans to

reduce the number of road

deaths on Europe’s roads by

half in the next 10 years. It

contains ambitious proposals

focussing on making improve-

ments to vehicles, infrastruc-

ture and road users’ behaviour.

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ROAD SAFETY: EU REPORTS LOWEST EVER NUMBER OF ROAD DEATHS AND TAKES FIRST STEP TOWARDS AN INJURIES STRATEGY

Road fatalities across the EU have decreased

by 9% in 2012. According to new figures

published by the European Commission,

Vice-President Siim Kallas, Commissioner for

transport, said, “2012 was a landmark year

for European road safety, with the lowest ever

number of road deaths recorded. A 9% decrease

means that 3,000 lives were saved last year. It

is hugely encouraging to see these kinds of re-

sults. Still 75 people die on Europe’s roads every

day, so there is no room for complacency. We

have ambitious goals to cut EU road deaths in

half by 2020 and we need to keep up this mo-

mentum to get there. Road deaths are only the

tip of the iceberg. For every death on Europe’s

roads there are 10 serious injuries such as dam-

age to the brain or spinal cord. We need a strat-

egy to bring down the number of serious road

injuries everywhere in the EU.”

Country by country statistics show that the

number of road deaths still varies greatly across

the EU. The countries with the lowest number

of road fatalities remain the UK, Sweden, the

Netherlands and Denmark, reporting around 30

deaths per million inhabitants.

Compared to the disappointing figures of 2011,

when progress in cutting road deaths fell to 2%,

the reduction of 9% in 2012 mean that Member

States are back on track towards the objective

of halving road deaths between 2010 and 2020.

2012 saw the lowest number of people

killed in road traffic in EU countries since

the first data were collected.

In order to reach this goal, an average reduction

of around 7% is needed. The most worrying fea-

ture of the road safety statistics for 2011 was a

high increase in the number of killed vulnerable

users such as pedestrians, motorcyclists and

elderly people – in spite of an overall reduction

of road fatalities. Based on the provisional data

for 2012, the number of vulnerable user fatali-

ties has decreased substantially in 2012.

The European Road Safety Action Programme

2011-2020 sets out challenging plans to reduce

the number of road deaths on Europe’s roads by

half in the next 10 years. It contains ambitious

proposals focussing on making improvements to

vehicles, infrastructure and road users’ behav-

iour. For example, key recent initiatives include:

A new EU Driving Licence, since January 2013,

with tighter rules for the access of young people

to powerful motorbikes; National enforcement

plans- submitted by Member States providing a

rich source of best practices; Cross border en-

forcement rules to crackdown on traffic offences

committed abroad (drink driving, speeding etc)

in force since November 2012; Work towards

the development of an injuries strategy.

Find more on: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-

release_IP-13-236_en.htm

AT WORK DRIVERS TAKING DEADLY RISKS ON ROADS

A research carried out by Brake and Di-

rect Line in the United Kingdom in 2013

shows that significant numbers of people

Significant numbers of people who drive for

work are risking devastating crashes by texting,

speeding and grooming at the wheel, according

to research by Brake and Direct Line released:

• Nearly a third (31%) text while driving

• One in six (17%) admit to grooming, such as

putting on make-up or shaving, while at the

wheel

• More than three-quarters (76%) endanger

pedestrians and cyclists by speeding at more

than 35mph in built up areas.

The survey revealed that people driving for busi-

ness purposes are more likely than the general

driving population to take all of these risks (see

below for full results), prompting calls for em-

who drive for work are risking devastating

crashes by texting, speeding and grooming

at the wheel.

ployers to take action to ensure employees are

safe and not putting others in danger.

Nearly a third (30%) of journeys on our roads

are made by drivers who are at work at the time

[1]. These drivers are 26% more likely to be in a

crash than people driving on their own time [2].

In Great Britain, 10 people are killed each week

and 100 injured by people driving for work [3].

[1] National Travel Survey 2011, Department for Transport, 2012

[2] Reported Road Casualties Great Britain 2011, DfT, 2012

[3] Reported Road Casualties Great Britain 2011, DfT, 2012

For a more detailed look at this survey please

take a look at: http://goo.gl/ltHpw

Source: http://www.brake.org.uk/

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SECOND UN GLOBAL ROAD SAFETY WEEK ON 6 – 12 MAY 2013

The Second UN Global Road Safety Week

to be held 6-12 May 2013 is dedicated to

pedestrian safety.Requested by the UN Gen-

eral Assembly, the Week will draw attention

to the urgent need to better protect pedes-

The Week will contribute to:

• drawing attention to the need for pedestrian

safety;

• generating action on measures which work

to increase pedestrian safety; and

• achieving the goal of the Decade of Action

for Road Safety 2011-2020 to save 5 million

lives.

Governments, with support from civil society,

academia, the private sector and the interna-

tional community, are all encouraged to plan

and host national and local events during the

Second UN Global Road Safety Week.

This milestone event on the Decade calendar

is a unique opportunity to make progress on

saving lives, and we hope that you will join in

ensuring its success.

trians worldwide, generate action on the

measures needed to do so, and contribute

to achieving the goal of the Decade of Action

for Road Safety 2011-2020 to save 5 million

lives.

Plan, host and register your event Govern-

ments, international agencies, civil society

organizations, and private companies are en-

couraged to plan, host and register events to

mark the Week. Events registered through the

Week’s global web site will be listed in the

“activities around the world” section to inform

and inspire others and facilitate coordination

of events in the same country or city.

For further information:

http://www.who.int/roadsafety/

week/2013/en/index.html

Contact:

Ms Laura Sminkey,

Communications Officer

Email: sminkeyl@who.int

The project SOL shall help to prevent road

crashes, deaths and injuries in the Central Europe

Space (CEUS). In 12 pilot areas of the 7 countries

Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slo-

venia, Italy and Austria targeted strategies will be

developed implementing effective programmes to

build a transnational road safety network. Find

detailed informations to all pilot areas on the

website of SOL: www.sol-project.eu

THE PILOT AREAS OF SOL:

• Poland: Olsztyn, Barczewo, Nidzica

• Czech Republic: Region of Liberec

• Slovakia: City of Prešov and Region of Prešov

- Selfgovernment County

• Hungary: City of Gyor

• Slovenia: Tolmin, Kočevje and Maribor

• Italy: Province of Brescia and Mantua

• Austria: Province of Styria

THE P ILOT AREAS OF THE PROJECT SOL

GERMANYCZECH REPUBLIC

AUSTRIA

ITALY

SLOVAKIA

POLAND

SLOVENIA

HUNGARY

The SOL Countries

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SOL – A COMPREHENSIVE ROAD SAFETY STRATEGY FOR CENTRAL EUROPE

The main goal of the project is to promote

sustainable mobility and increase awareness

for safety issues as well as contributing to the

achievement of higher quality of living condi-

tions.

The approach of SOL sees Road-Safety within

the context of sustainable mobility, i.e. to make

walking and cycling safe and to promote a modal

shift from the private car to public transport.

SOL unites some of the most competent RS or-

ganisations from CEUS and worldwide, among

them the Global Road Safety Patnership (GRPS).

The multi-sector partners from eight countries

of CEUS have jointly developed a strategy that

supports the region in catching up with highest

EU standards in Road Safety.

A.L.O.T. Agency of East Lombardy for Transport and Logistics (Italy)

Austrian Mobility Research FGM-AMOR (Austria)

Province of Styria – Traffic Department (Austria)

University of Tuebingen, Institute of Geography (Germany)

HBH Projekt spol. s r.o. (Czech Republic)

ITS Motor Transport Institute(Poland)

University of Zilina(Slovakia)

Global Road Safety Partnership Hungary(Hungary)

KTI Institute for Transport Sciences(Hungary)

Automobile Association of Slovenia(Slovenia)

ZAS – The Association of the Driving Schools in the Slovak Republic (Slovakia)

WORD Olsztyn organization(Poland)

12 PROJECT PARTNERS FROM 8 COUNTRIES OF CENTRAL EUROPE

The project „SOL – Save our Lives“ in the Central Europe Program www.central2013.eu

is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Imprint:

Texts: Alberto Milotti, A.L.O.T. (p.1 and Foreword); Robert Pressl , FGM-AMOR (p. 2)

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