Imagine trying to stop car accidents by designing roads and cars that forgive human mistakes, rather than just blaming the driver. This effort takes the 'Vision Zero' secrets from countries like Sweden and applies them to roads in Ghana, Tanzania, and Zambia. It's like upgrading a basic safety manual into a high-tech toolkit for building safer streets and training better mechanics.
African road networks suffer from high fatality rates due to a lack of defined safety management roles and missing infrastructure audit tools. This leads to inefficient post-crash care and unsafe road user behavior.
A virtual center of excellence for education, guidelines for infrastructure safety tools, and a map of regulatory gaps across five safety pillars.
If you are a construction firm dealing with high accident rates on new highways — this project developed guidelines for infrastructure safety management tools that reduce fatalities for vulnerable road users.
If you are a training center dealing with outdated mechanic certifications — this project created new educational programs and a virtual center of excellence to improve the quality of vehicle safety vocations.
If you are a transport operator dealing with high insurance costs due to crashes — this project mapped regulations and procedures across five pillars of road safety to help implement a safer operating model.
Based on available project data, no specific pricing or commercial costs are mentioned; the project was funded by a EUR 4,000,000 EU contribution.
Yes, while the project focuses on Ghana, Tanzania, and Zambia, the objective is to propagate the Safe System modus operandi within African countries generally.
Based on available project data, specific licensing terms are not provided, but the project aims to create a virtual center of excellence for capacity building.
The project performs a comparative analysis of management structures to identify where laws or regulations are missing or not supported by current practices.
The project period runs from 2022-09-01 to 2026-08-31, during which pilots and demonstrations are conducted.
The consortium is well-balanced for market entry, featuring 11 partners across 7 countries. With an industry ratio of 27% (including 3 industry partners and 2 SMEs), there is a clear bridge between the 4 universities and 3 research institutes and the practical application of road safety tools in African markets.
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