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New Report Lays Out Concrete Steps Toward Safer Roads

Leipzig, May 24, 2023— Countries can reduce deaths and injuries from road traffic crashes by flipping the traditional mobility hierarchy and adopting the Safe System approach, finds a new report from the Sustainable Mobility for All Initiative (SuM4All). This approach ...
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The Moroccan Private Sector Road Safety Coalition Unveils its Strategic Priorities and Appoints its President

Casablanca, 17 May 2023 – In the framework of the celebration of the United Nations Global Road Safety Week, the Moroccan Private Sector Road Safety Coalition met to unveil its strategic priorities in the presence of public sector institutional stakeholders ...
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IRF Addresses ARMFA’s 20th General Assembly in Mozambique

While Africa has an estimated total road network of 2.9 millions km, only 30% are surfaced roads, of which a third are located in the SADC region. If we add to this the inefficiencies and bottlenecks of the transport system, ...
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Moving Towards Equity: Women Experts Discuss Gender-Inclusive Transportation Planning

In celebration of International Women’s Day, IBTTA’s Women in Tolling Council hosted a discussion on 8 March 2023 on the impact of transportation on women across the world. More specifically, the webinar focused on the investments and policies directed at ...
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Accelerating Cross-Stakeholder Collaboration with Modern Traffic Management Systems and Strategies

The demand for resilient, equitable, sustainable, and secure mobility solutions is on the rise due to megatrends such as urban demographic growth (the United Nation’s forecasts expect that more than 80% of Europe’s population will live in urban areas by ...
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IRF Addresses the Italian Association of Toll Highways Concessionaires – AISCAT

The International Road Federation (IRF) was invited - together with the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpilke Association (IBTTA) - to the General Assembly of the Italian Association of Toll Highways Concessionaires (AISCAT). Bill Halkias, IRF Immediate Past President and current ...
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World-first Ten Step Project Celebrates Success in Tanzania

Dar es Salaam, 2 March 2023. Capacity to eliminate high-risk roads and curb the more than 16,000 people (WHO 2018) who die on Tanzania’s roads annually has taken a leap thanks to the innovative Tanzania Ten Step Plan Project, celebrated ...
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IRF Kicks Off 75th Anniversary Celebrations in Geneva

This is a special year for the International Road Federation as it marks the 75th anniversary of its creation. Connecting people, ideas, and organisations has been at the core of IRF’s work over the past seven decades. The striking feature ...
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IRF & IRU Sign MoU at the Occasion of Their 75th Anniversary

Geneva, 20 February 2023. The International Road Federation (IRF) and the International Road Transport Union (IRU) have signed today a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to reinforce their long-standing collaboration. The two organisations have a 75-year-long history that stretches back to ...
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IRF President Calls for Concerted Action to Decarbonise the Sector at ASECAP Days 2022

Under the theme “Decarbonising Road Infrastructure: Challenges, Perspectives and Actions in Tough Economy” the 49th ASECAP Annual Event was held on 24-25 November 2022 in Brussels. The event gathered high-level personalities from the EU Institutions and other international organisations, including ...
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