One of the main causes of inconvenience is damages or crashes that result in the closure of one or more lanes for several hours. This significantly burdens the daily traffic. At two points along the Kifissos, permanent Traffic Police crane vehicles with drivers will be stationed, so they can intervene more quickly and directly where
In July 2023, we had a 22.5% increase in road crashes compared to July 2022, demonstrating Greece's poor road safety performance compared to other European countries. Last year, in 2022, our country dropped 2 positions, from the 21st place to the 23rd place in the EU ranking. This fact indeed proves that road safety and
Electric scooters and bicycles are new ways of getting around and we should get used to them. We need to learn that speed is also an issue for these means of transport. Moreover, when speeds of more than 20-25 km/h are reached, we are at high risk of a crash like all other vehicles. Drivers’
"Dead 23-year-old man in a car road crash in Katerini". "A 30-year-old driver dead and two injured in a car road crash in Mesogeion". "Fatal road crash in Trikala with two young people killed". These headlines were written only in the first days of April. These numbers were even more increased in March. At the
After more than 30 years of dedication to road safety science and several Marathon races, I decided to combine both passions for a cause: to run 30 Marathons in 30 months in order to actively promote the adoption of 30km/h speed limit in as many cities as possible worldwide, as a key policy for safer,
Motorways are one of the most important transportation subsystems, which provide at the same time quick, comfortable and safe travelling. Motorways are the safest road infrastructures worldwide. Despite their significant traffic volumes, only 8.5% of road fatalities in the European Union occur on them, with an even lower percentage in Greece (7% in 2019). The
Traffic in Athens is continuously deteriorating and traffic congestion is expected to further increase if no immediate action is taken. Unfortunately, the decade of financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic were two more missed opportunities. On one hand, the Authorities did not exploited the reduction in traffic in order to push new models of sustainable
Is Artificial Intelligence the future of road safety? Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques are currently used in several road safety related applications, supporting decision making of both the Authorities and the road users and transforming and upgrading significantly the potential for road safety improvement worldwide: - In vehicle technology, AI algorithms are implemented to
Road Traffic Accidents is a Pandemic comparable to Covid-19 Pandemic Covid-19 is a major pandemic with large number of victims (165.000 fatalities at mid-April 2020), which can be compared to the road traffic accidents pandemic (1,35 million fatalities and 50 million injuries per year globally). However, road traffic accidents pandemic has never being seeing by the
Today there is too much imbalance between urban mobility and safety policies, with mobility and efficient travelling dominating the mind of the citizens and subsequently the choices of the politicians, even if everybody agrees and talks about safety as a theoretical priority. This imbalance in favour of mobility is also reflected at the effort put
