THREE DAY GLOBAL ROAD SAFETY INITIATIVE LAUNCHING EVENT WITH FOCUS ON DELIBERATING FINALISING SUGGESTIVE CODES TO REDUCE ROAD CRASH FATALITIES AND INJURIES IN LOW AND MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES, MR NITIN GADKARI , UNION MINISTER MoRTH TO INAUGURATE
New Delhi: About 100 eminent road safety experts from more than 25 countries will be taking part in the Three day “Global Road Safety Initiative ‘ to begin in the National capital from December 4-6, 2023 with focus on deliberating and finalising suggestive codes to reduce road crash fatalities and injuries in low and middle-income countries and cities.
The Three-day ‘Global Road safety initiative’ being organised by organized by the Institute of Road Traffic Education (IRTE) in partnership with the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, Government of India, and in association with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) is to be inaugurated by Mr Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) .
“The global road safety experts attending the event will be working towards deliberating and finalizing suggestive Codes of Safe Practice for , Driver Certification, Diagnosis of Road Crashes through Multi-Disciplinary Crash Investigation and Safety of Vulnerable Road Users. The new set of recommendations arising from the meet will be tabled and discussed in the forthcoming Global Forum for Road Traffic Safety sessions in Geneva from March 2024. This will offer crucial guidance on the principles embedded in the legal instruments falling in the mandate of the UNECE” said Dr Rohit Baluja, President, Institute of Road Traffic Education (IRTE) .
“Some of the subjects that will be discussed during the Three-day event will include India’s Commitment to Road Safety in the Asian Region, Global NCAP as a tool to improve road safety, Technology: The Way Forward in Road Traffic Safety, A Decade of Progress on Road Safety: 2013-2023, Importance of the subject of Traffic Psychology in driver training, traffic engineering, and crash investigation, Is testing on simulated or automated tracks (without human interventions) optimal? With modern technological advancement for driver testing, do we need a motor licensing officer? And Defining Death and scale of Injury in road traffic crashes” said Dr Baluja.
Eminent speakers at the event will include Mr Anurag Jain, IAS, Secretary- Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Govt. of India , Dr Luciana Iorio, Chairperson- UN ECE (Economic Commission for Europe) Global Forum for Road Traffic Safety & Senior Legal Adviser- MIT, Italy, Dr B Mohammed Asheel, National Professional Officer (Injury and Disability Prevention) – WHO, Mr David Ward, President- Global NCAP, Dr Sanjeev Bhoi, Professor- JPNATC (Jai Prakash Narayan Apex Trauma Center), AIIMS & Head- WHO Collaborating Centre for Emergency & Trauma Care and Mr Weimin Ren, Director- Transport, UNESCAP,.
Traditionally, the bi-annual sessions of the Global Forum for Road Traffic Safety (earlier known as Working Party 1 or WP.1) are convened at the Palais des Nations in Geneva in March and September to introduce amendments to the 1949 and 1968 Conventions on Road Traffic and the 1968 Convention on Road Signs and Signals through the adoption of Resolutions.
For the first time in history, the Forum had an extraordinary Session (67th Session) along with the Europe Asia Road Safety Forum at the College of Traffic Management, Delhi, India, in December 2013 when a dedicated facility called the “Road Safety Hall of Nations” was inaugurated in the presence of esteemed members from all across the globe.