The 17th RS5C (Road Safety on Five Continents) conference will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 17-19th 2016.
RS5C is an international conference aiming at increasing road safety globally by providing a platform for this essential knowledge exchange and helping the participating countries to find a good balance between road safety and mobility.
Road traffic injuries and loss of life is one of the major global health problems today with 1.24 million people killed annually, i.e. one person every 25 seconds is killed in a road crash.
Many countries have learnt to mitigate the problems associated with road traffic crashes but there is still much more to be done. Estimates indicate that, unless action is taken over the next 15 years, the number of annual fatalities in road crashes may rise to 2.4 million, with the increase occurring in low and middle income countries.
There is a great necessity for global cooperation to stop the growth of traffic fatalities. To reverse this trend, knowledge, information and experience from success stories and good practice must be shared. Road Safety on Five Continents (RS5C) is an international conference aiming at increasing road safety globally by providing a platform for this essential knowledge exchange and helping the participating countries to find a good balance between road safety and mobility.
The 17th RS5C conference is organised by VTI in close cooperation with The Brazilian National Association for Transportation Research and Education (ANPET).
More than 100 presentations on road safety from more than 25 countries are represented at the conference.
Opening session speakers
The venue for the RS5C conference is the Windsor FlĂłrida Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Originally “Road Safety on Two Continents” the conference had an emphasis on two continents, Europe and North America, to bring together road safety researchers. Conferences were held in Europe between 1987 and 1999 and then expanded to three continents in 2000 when the conference moved to South Africa. A fourth continent, Asia, was added in 2007 when the conference was hosted in Thailand. In 2016 the conference is expanded to Brazil, South America, and is now called “Road Safety on Five Continents”.
Contact information:
Dr. Magnus Hjälmdahl, Chairman for RS5C Organising Committee, VTI, Sweden
Phone: +46 13 20 43 06
Ms. Therese Jomander, Secretary of RS5C steering committee, VTIPhone:
+46 13 20 40 15
Photo: VTI/Hejdlösa Bilder
VTI, Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut, är ett oberoende och internationellt framstående forskningsinstitut inom transportsektorn. Huvuduppgiften är att bedriva forskning och utveckling kring infrastruktur, trafik och transporter. Kvalitetssystemet och miljöledningssystemet är ISO-certifierat enligt ISO 9001 respektive 14001. Vissa provningsmetoder är dessutom ackrediterade av Swedac. VTI har omkring 200 medarbetare och finns i Linköping (huvudkontor), Stockholm, Göteborg, Borlänge och Lund.
Presskontakt:
Andreas Schander
Telefon:
013–20 42 08
Mobil:
0709–21 82 86
Epost:
andreas.schander@vti.se
19 May, 2016 - VTI – Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut
Several different approaches to measure vision in order to improve road safety have been identified around the world. A trend seen in the literature performed by researchers at VTI (The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute) is that traditional vision tests increasingly are supplemented by cognitive tests.
17 May, 2016 - VTI – Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut
Driving a bus in the afternoon during a split shift situation was shown in a recent study to be related to higher levels of self-reported sleepiness, higher levels of physiological sleepiness and increased response times, compared to an afternoon shift. Today the Swedish researcher, Anna Anund, speak about this at the conference RS5C at the Windsor FlĂłrida Hotel in Rio de Janeiro.
17 May, 2016 - VTI – Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut
Maintaining high levels of road traffic safety is always important, especially when the road is in a long tunnel. A simulator study at VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, shows that different types of lighting in tunnels affect drivers in different ways. These results will be presented this week at RS5C, Road Safety on Five Continents, in Rio de Janeiro.
21 May, 2013 - VTI – Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut
In conjunction with the road safety conference, Road Safety on Four Continents, held in China, VTI signed agreements on road safety issues with China and South Korea.
Expertsvar, The Swedish Research Council, Hantverkargatan 11B, Stockholm SWEDENPhone +46(0)8 546 44 000
P.O. Box 1035, SE-101 38 Stockholm, expertsvar@vr.se
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