Road Safety Programme
The Road Safety Programme, organised by the abertis corporation and the abertis foundation, aims to inform the public and thereby raise its awareness of traffic and safety problems. On the basis of key target groups, such as drivers and school children, this initiative aims to cover all of society.
The Programme can be broken down into four action areas: education in schools, research studies, technical workshops and promotion.
The School Road Safety Education Project aims to raise awareness amongst 8-to-12 year-olds of the importance of prevention and to encourage responsible habits in them. This work also helps boost the knowledge of teachers and parents.
The second area of action is the promotion of research into a range of issues, such as those focusing of drivers of different ages or on the rates and causes of accidents.
International congresses on traffic policy, symposia on road user anthropology, course for road safety auditors and sessions aimed at professional drivers are just some examples of the Technical Workshops promoted by the programme.
The fourth action area, the Promotion Programme, includes the production of workshop publications and books on safety-related matters, and of other materials: CDs, DVDs, brochures, educational games, etc.
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Actions
- 2008
- Special preparations for Operation Crossing the Straits
- Series of talks “Responsible Mobility: Values on the Move”, in Valencia
- Agreement with the Spanish road safety foundation
- AEDME Award for Business Sponsorship and Patronage, in the Education category, through the School Road Safety Programme run by the fundación abertis (press release)
- 2007
- Production of a television series (in 52 episodes) aimed at young people, with advice on safe, sustainable mobility
- Road Safety sessions at Hospital Sant Joan de Déu (Barcelona), within the framework of an initiative to prevent child accidents
- Seventh International Road-User Anthropology Symposium: “Safety and Consideration: the Great Challenge Facing Road-Users" (conclusions)
- Publication of the book “Road-User Anthropology: Law, Offences and Penalties”
- First Training Course for Road Safety Auditors in Argentina
- Support for the summer contest for the European Road Safety Charter
- Publication of informative materials for the Crossing the Straits Operation
- Collaboration with the Fundación Respira on the informative campaign on sleep apnea
- Conclusion of the research “Assessment of the Road Safety Programme ‘Drive your Family’” and “P-Temps 2”
- 2006
- Signature of the European Road Safety Charter, under the slogan 25,000 lives to save, whose aim is to reduce by 50% the current number of accidents by 2010
- Support for the Fundació Respira in the informational campaign on sleep apnea (distribution of half a million leaflets under the slogan “Don’t fall asleep at the wheel”, to raise public awareness of this sleep breathing disorder)
- Publication of the book "Responsible mobility: a challenge for values education"
- VI International Road User Anthropology Symposium: "The law: offences and penalties" (conclusions)
- Publication of the book "Road user anthropology: the perception of safety as a risk factor"
- Interdisciplinary workshop Responsible mobility: a challenge for values education (view conclusions)
- 2005
- Second Road Safety Auditors Training Course, as part of the abertis chair
- Workshop on traffic congestion in large cities
- Presentation of the results of the SEGURA III, third study realized by the Institute of Traffic and Road Security (INTRAS) of the University of Valency on the conduction, the safety and the conduct in the car of the drivers in the AP-7 (information of the period 1981-2003)
- Fifth International Road User Anthropology Symposium. “Security perception as a risk factor”
- Publication of “Road user anthropology: road safety education and teaching”
- Workshop “The mobility and safety of the young”
- Publishing of specific materials for the return of North Africans home for the summer holidays
- First Road Safety Auditors Course, within the framework of the abertis chair
- 2004
- Fourth International Road User Anthropology Symposium. “Road safety education and teaching”
- Technical workshop on road safety information
- Publication of “Road user anthropology: attention when driving”
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