The Seventh AfroSAFE Webinar will take place on Friday, 10th May 2024 (11:00-12:00 CET) with George Daffa, Manager of Road Safety Department from the Tanzania National Roads Agency (TANROADS). In this talk, George Daffa will present the legal aspects of road safety audit (RSA) and how it was introduced in Tanzania. He will shortly explain … Read more
Don’t miss the upcoming sixth AfroSAFE webinar on Friday, 5th April 2024 (15:00-16:00 CET) with Fred Wegman, an emeritus professor in Traffic Safety at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Prof. Wegman will tell the history of the Dutch Sustainable Safety (the Dutch version of the Safe System approach), delving into the main challenges … Read more
The fifth afroSAFE Webinar will take place on Friday, March 15th, 2024 (11:00-12:00 CET) featuring guest speaker Geetam Tiwari, Emeritus Professor at the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Don’t miss out on her valuable insights According to the WHO most recent report, global trends of road injuries show a … Read more
The third AfroSAFE Academy webinar will take place on 19 January 2024 (15:00 -16:00 CET). Our guest is Dr. Matts-Åke Belin. Global Lead for the Decade of Action for Road Safety. Since motorization took off and its negative consequences for people’s lives and health became increasingly apparent, the scientific world has developed more and more … Read more
The fourth webinar of AfroSAFE Academy will take place on 16 February 2024 (11:00 – 12:00 CET). We are delighted to host Dr. Meleckidzedeck Khayesi from the Department of Social Determinants of Health at the WHO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. How does one mobilize action at national and sub-national levels to move away from business … Read more
The second webinar of AfroSAFE Academy will take place on 8 December 2023 (15-16 CET). Our guest is Boniphace Kudela. Associate Research Engineer at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). Traffic crashes are among the major cause of fatalities in most developing countries. A lack of a centralized historical crash database impedes the efforts to perform … Read more
SAVE THE DATE! The 1st AfroSAFE conference will take place on 12–14 June 2024 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The conference topic is ‘Knowledge-based traffic safety management for African countries’. Submission of abstracts will open shortly. The conference is organized in close co-operation with the Department of Transportation and Geotechnical Engineering, University of Dar es-Salaam. More … Read more
The first webinar of AfroSAFE Academy will take place on 10 November 2023. The honoured speaker is Henk Stipdonk, the director of the Netherlands Institute for Transport Policy Analysis (KiM). Many effective and lasting road safety improvements are made through long term governmental policy changes. For scientific research to actually contribute to road safety improvement, a tight … Read more
AfroSAFE Academy is the virtual centre of excellence in traffic safety launched by the AfroSAFE project team, in partnership with ICTCT. What is it? AfroSAFE Academy is a network of engaged scholars and practitioners with a joint mission to advance research and education in traffic safety with particular focus on the African context.To ensure sustainability … Read more