Urgent improvements in vehicle policies globally are needed to meet 2050 zero emission targets, warns new report ‘Securing global fleet transformation: GFEI's ZERO Pathway’, launched at COP26 in Glasgow by the Global Fuel Economy Initiative, supported by the FIA Foundation.
Child pedestrians are among the highest-risk groups in Mozambique for road traffic injuries, the leading cause of death for children over the age of five in the country.
The FIA Foundation has been at the heart of many discussions and debates at COP26 in Glasgow raising the importance of the changes needed in the road transport sector as it rises in prominence on the global climate action agenda.
The Child Health Initiative (CHI) is an informal collaboration of organisations, coordinated by the FIA Foundation, committed to advocating for the rights of children and adolescents to safe and sustainable mobility, and working together through an Advocacy Hub to implement and promote practical solutions.
Urban design resource Designing Streets for Kids offers practical solutions and inspiration to make streets safer and more welcoming for all and to set a new global baseline for designing urban streets as a supplement to NACTO-GDCI’s Global Street Design Guide (GSDG).
Traffic Conflict Technique (TCT) counts and studies traffic conflicts - the near-misses that indicate danger on the roads - as a simple, evidence-based, low-cost approach to evaluate the impact of road safety interventions to prevent crashes, injuries, and deaths.
The Child Health Initiative Advocacy Hub supports organisations across the world engaged in policy change activities to secure safe, low-speed streets below 30km/h where pedestrians, particularly children and youth, mix with motorised traffic.
The Safe System Consortium is a group of engineers, scientists, public health professionals, and safety experts working to reimagine road safety and equity in the United States, convened by Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy (JHCIRP) and the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) with the support of the FIA Foundation.
Low speed streets are the heart of any community, and contribute to making cities safe and healthy, green and liveable. 30 km/h zones in cities can also facilitate the attainment of a number of Sustainable Development Goals.
The School Area Road Safety Assessments and Improvements (SARSAI) programme, run by NGO Amend, is the first road safety programme of any type proven to reduce road traffic injuries among children in sub-Saharan Africa.
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