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Fire service equipment convoy to Ukraine supported by FIA Foundation
An emergency convoy of donated fire engines and lifesaving equipment to Ukraine has been organised by UK charity FIRE AID, supported by the FIA Foundation.
An emergency convoy of donated fire engines and lifesaving equipment to Ukraine has been organised by UK charity FIRE AID, supported by the FIA Foundation.
THUMS (Total Human Model for Safety) is a computer model that represents the human body, able to simulate injuries for real-life safety research that is difficult to measure on crash test dummies. Supplementing the existing methodology of full-scale real car crash testing, THUMS and the continual advance in computer capabilities is allowing the testing to move into the virtual world. Multiple changes to vehicle design, be that the seats, seatbelts, or chassis can now be iterated through to determine the safest installations, as well as allowing accident and injury reconstruction.
The Halo, introduced by the FIA and designed by researchers at the Global Institute for Motor Sport Safety, with funding support from the FIA Foundation, was initially designed as a device to provide additional frontal protection from flying objects for open cockpit racing drivers.
The World Resources Institute’s Vision Zero Challenge has recognized four Latin American cities that have taken important strides to make their streets safer and more equitable in a project supported by the FIA Foundation.
The Global Network for Road Safety Legislators, a network supporting parliamentarians to understand and advocate for global road safety has marked its first five years of activity. The Global Network is coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO) with funding support from the FIA Foundation.
Seven out of ten Moldovans with limited mobility feel unsafe moving around the streets of Chișinău, according to a survey by the Automobile Club of Moldova (ACM), as part of the Equal Road Rights project in partnership with the Center for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CDPD) and Universal Access Ltd and Eastern Alliance for Safe and Sustainable Transport (EASST) with the support of the FIA Foundation.
Child pedestrians are among the highest-risk groups in Mozambique for road traffic injuries, the leading cause of death for children over the age of five in the country.