The subject of this Thematic Working Group is Transport Safety.
The TWG is currently composed of 14 experts from 12 institutes, as following:
AIT: Stefan Deix
DVS: Pieter van Vliet (moderator) & Iris de Jong (rapporteur)
HIT: Dimitri Margaritis
IFSTTAR: Hélène Fontaine
ITS/IK: Justyna Wacowska-Slezak & Dagmara Jankowska
KTI: Arpad Torok
TØI: Torkel Bjornskau
TRL: Andrew Parkes
UVEG: Pedro Alfonso Pérez Losa
VTI: Dr Anna Vadeby
VTT: Harri Peltola
VÚD: Stefan Machcinik
ECTRI Thematic Working Group for Transport Safety (TWG-B) meeting is taking place on May 10, 2012 in Brussels, Belgium. The meeting will held at ECTRI premises.
The Transport Safety group is a follow-up of the former ECTRI TWG Traffic Safety and Security which objectives and activities were:
Objectives (long term)
- identify target groups and working structures to ensure safety research and practices based on high quality scientific approach, e.g. APSN, EURNEX, HUMANIST networks of excellence
- information resource for policy makers at European and national level
- establish influence in Europe equivalent to TRB (Safety) in North America
Activities:
- finalisation of terms of reference and scope for this group (incl. definition of Safety and Security)
- definition of working relationships and lines of communication with other ECTRI Thematic Working Groups and others organisations - working on safety issues i.e. FERSI. In January 2009, the Forum of European Road Safety Institute (FERSI) released a common position paper with ECTRI on "The sustainable safety approach to Road Transport and Mobility". You can find it in the strategic document section.
- Identify specific elements for ECTRI FP7 initiated consortia
The TWG Safety and Security also prepared inputs for the FP7 update. These inputs have been gathered in a report entitled "White spots in the European Transport research traced by ECTRI's Thematic Working Groups". This report was released to the EC in June 2009.
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