June 10, 2006Taking into account the increased level of motorisation, the growing number of traffic collisions with serious effects and last but not least, our obligations as a future member state of the European Union, the idea of creating an innovative road safety project arose.
May 5, 2006IRSA starts enforcement and public awareness courses in Romania, North Cyprus, Turkey and Ethiopia.
IRSA – Romania, IRSA – North Cyprus and IRSA – Ethiopia start new training programs related to public awareness campaigns, crash investigation & reconstruction, in-depth crash investigation, speed enforcement and alcohol enforcement.
April 13, 2006Intertraffic was established in 1972 and has since evolved into easily the most important and largest platform for transportation infrastructure, traffic management, safety and parking sectors. The 18th edition of Intertraffic took place in Amsterdam from Tuesday 4 to Friday 7 April 2006.
More than 25,000 professional visitors and exhibitors met, shared information and made business with each other and a couple of hundreds participated in the conferences and seminars organised within the Intertraffic Event.
Safety is a vital component of traffic and transport, in general; this is the reason that two distinguished members of the International Road Safety Academy Association (IRSA) opened the seminar on Safety on Wednesday, April 5th 2006.
As IRSA’s road safety programmes and activities focus mainly on developing countries, a presentation on “Self Funding Road Safety in developing Countries” was prepared by the Operational Manager of IRSA – Romania, Mrs. Dana Voicu.
Our approach to road safety also includes the high education component, and for that IRSA is developing a Road Safety Master and Ph.D. study for the Universities in Romania, Spain, Ecuador, Ethiopia and North Cyprus. The person responsible for this subject in Romania is Prof. Dr. Ing. Petru Branzas who also gave a comprehensive presentation at the Intertraffic Amsterdam Seminar related to the utility and positive effects of these studies for road safety.
April 10, 2006On the 31st of March 2006, the International Road Safety Academy Association (IRSA) has officially been accepted as partner in the European Road Safety Charter, one of the main European Commission initiatives to reach the overall objective of halving the number of road fatalities by 2010 as set in the White Paper on transport policy in 2001.
IRSA – Association is the first organisation in the Netherlands that commits itself, through all its Regional Centres throughout Europe, to share the responsibility of “halving the number of road accident victims in the EU until 2010”.
We are given the liberty to use the label and logo of the ERSC as long as it represents the responsibilities and tasks undertaken by IRSA for improving road safety within this initiative; IRSA’s commitment and responsibilities are formulated in the signatory contract between our organisation and ERSC which you can find in the pdf file below along with the official letter of acceptance from the European Road Safety Charter.
Also, on our official web site www.irsa-association.org a special section will be created for our programmes and actions within the European Road Safety Charter initiative where our activity reports and all other documents related to the ERSC will be published.
Last but not least, the logo and direct link to the European Road Safety Charter web site will be placed on our internet site with the precise purpose to share useful and reliable road safety information as well as to encourage other organisations and companies to join.
April 3, 2006The IRSA – Association and the IRSA – North Cyprus have signed an agreement to start a digital speed and red light camera project in North Cyprus. 142 speed cameras will be installed in the most dangerous locations on the North part of the island; another 8 speed cameras will be used in police patrol cars. In a second phase, red light cameras will be installed too.