RIPCORD-ISEREST

Increasing Safety and Reliability of secondary roads for a sustainable surface transport

6th Framework Program, TRE-04-FP6TR-S07.36406, contract number: 506184, project budget: EUR 3,939,599 

Implementation timeframe: 01/2005 –  12/2007

Coordinator: Federal Highway Research Institute, Germany

Project purposes: The main goal of the project was to give scientific support to work done in Europe on improvement of safety of road transport on secondary roads and for achievement of the accepted goals of the European policy for transport safety in 2010 (so-called White Book on Transport Policy).
Major R&D tasks assigned to PIAP: Formulate basic dependencies of safety functions on secondary roads, develop a GIS-aided decision-making system, demonstrate recommendations for safety improvement on a selected secondary road in Poland.

Project Web site: http://ripcord-iserest.com/

Partners:

• Mobycon – Concordis Groep, the Netherlands
• Swiss Council for Injury Prevention, Switzerland 
• Industrial Institute for Automation and Measurements (PIAP), Poland 
• Transportation Research Centre, Czech Republic 
• Poliba – Politecnico di Bari, Dipartimento di Vie e Trasporti, Italy 
• Hellenic Institute of Transport, Greece 
• Institute for Road Safety Research, the Netherlands 
• Belgium Road Safety Institute, Belgium 
• Turkish General Directorate of Highways, Turkey 
• Ingeniería y Economía del Transporte, S.A., Spain 
• Institute of Transport Economics, Norway 
• Institute for Transport Sciences, Hungary 
• Dresden University, Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Traffic and Transportation Psychology, Germany 
• Kuratorium für Verkehrssicherheit, Austria 
• German Insurance Institute for Traffic Engineering, Germany 
• National Civil Engineering Laboratory, Portugal