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TraSaCu

The RSI participate in European research program Traffic Safety Culture program and the Safe Systems Approach. The European program Traffic Safety Culture (TraSaCu) aims at developing a cultural approach to road safety research and the prevention of road accidents.

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The program

The program aims at developing a cultural approach to the road safety research and the prevention of road accidents. It aims at a cultural change and the creation of an innovative agenda for road safety. The project brings together experts in engineering (vehicle safety, road construction, traffic planning) and human sciences (psychology, sociology, anthropology) in order to develop a common framework for road safety culture, useful for practical work on road safety and for academic research. But what is Road safety Culture?

According to the definition of the Transport Safety Council USA (US DOT), the road safety culture can be defined as "shared values, actions and behaviors that indicate commitment to safety, against competing objectives and requirements." Nevertheless there is not yet an uniform definition of what makes road safety culture, and the program will try to explore.

Methodology

The research focuses on the cultural interaction between participants in the circulatory system and in their environment, compared to the cultural patterns of commitment and risk perception.
It also aims at those cultural elements that can easily be changed in order to improve road traffic safety systems.
Throughout the duration of the program, the researchers will systematically collect data and share experience on various road safety cultures across Europe (and the US), which they will be analyzed with state-of-the-art statistical and interpretative methods. The data and results will be available to the public through the program platform (http://www.trasacu.eu/)

The data collection will be based mainly on secondary data. Also there will be the data of measurements, official statistics, interviews with experts on road safety, as well as data collected from naturalistic observations in the circulatory system, and especially observation of driving behavior using camera and sensors in the car.
Naturalistic driving data haven’t be used in the context of the cultural analyzes in the past and it’s very important in order to understand the driving styles and patterns of risk-taking.

Program structure

The program is divided into 5 phases

Knowledge Management (Knowledge management)

Creating a knowledge platform for the program and the public. During the first phase of the program was created the website TraSaCu: http://www.trasacu.eu/ under the guidance of the Road Safety Institute Panos Mylonas "RSI in collaboration with TCN-Albania. During the first phase the Sociologist of RSI Mr. Evangelos Makris, worked at KFV in Austria for the creation of TraSaCu platform. In RSI respectively hosted the Alexandra.Kuehnelt-Leddihn, scientific collaborator of KFV for road safety.

Analysis of cultural patterns in Traffic Systems (Analysis of Cultural patterns in (Road) Traffic Systems)

Construction of a theoretical framework and conduct in-depth road safety culture analysis. During the second phase of the program was hosted at the RSI Maria Pashkevich and Anton Pashkevich, Ph.D. (Department of Logistics and Transport / Tallinn University of Technology), Estonia. (The second phase is in progress)

Culture road safety work: Commitment & Compliance (Traffic Safety Culture in practice. Commitment and Compliance)

The third phase of the program focuses on understanding the relationship between attitudes / beliefs and behaviors, and all the cultural factors that can be easily changed in order to enhance road safety culture. During the third phase of the program Institute of Road Safety "Panos Mylonas" represented in the SWOV-Institute for Road Safety Research in the Netherlands by Ms. Dimitra Georgogianni, Psychologist of the Institute (The 3rd phase is in progress).

Composition

Development of an integrated model Culture Road Safety and shaping the culture change mechanisms (start at the end of 2016)

Action Framework Development (Development of Action Framework)

Developing strategies for change management and implementation (starting in 2017)

Exchange of research personnel

The program offers the opportunity to road safety researchers and professionals to work in different cultural and institutional environments. The project brings together experts in the field of engineering and the humanities in order to develop a common framework for road safety culture and the exchange of expertise and developing the research work of partner organizations through staff exchanges.

During the program, researchers will work for up to 111 months in total in 9 different countries partner organizations in three continents.

The RSI is one of the basic partners both hosting researchers from other countries and sending scientific staff at partner institutions abroad.

More detail:

Phase 1: (2015) The RSI send scientific collaborator at KFV Austria

Phase 2: (2015-2016) The RSI send scientific collaborator at KFV Austria and hosts scientific collaborators from KFV Austria

Phase 3: The RSI send scientific collaborator at SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research in the Netherlands and hosts at Greece scientific personnel from the Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia.

Phase 4: The RSI send scientific collaborator at SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research in the Netherlands and Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Financing

The project is funded exclusively the exchange of research personnel and expertise within education culture development and culture Road behavior and supported by the European Commission under the research program Horizon 2020, below the prism of Grant No 645690, Marie Skłodowska-Curie

Time & Partners

To program lasts 36 months. Involving 13 organizations from 9 countries of Europe, USA and Turkey:

Kuratorium für Verkehrssicherheit (KFV) Austria

Technische Universität Wien Austria

Road Safety Institute (RSI) “Panos Mylonas” Greece

(Tallinn University of Technology) Estonia

Co-PLAN, Institute for Habitat Development Albania

Universiteti Polis Shpk (Polis University) Albania

TCN Shpk Albania

Middle East Technical University (METU) Turkey

Traffic Research Center of Finland Ltd. Finland

AMRKS Kosovo

Stichting Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Verkeersveiligheid (SWOV) Netherlands

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University USA

Montana State University Bozeman (MSU) USA

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Funded projects

Analysis of cultural patterns in Traffic Systems (Analysis of Cultural patterns in (Road) Traffic Systems)

Culture road safety work: Commitment & Compliance (Traffic Safety Culture in practice. Commitment and Compliance)

Composition

Action Framework Development (Development of Action Framework)