Mon, 30 June 2025 | 11:30 – 13:20
Conference Room 3rd Floor
PIARC Workshop Session 2: Traffic Management & Road Safety in Africa
The African continent accounts for 24 percent of global road fatalities despite hosting less than 4 percent of the world’s vehicles. The very high rate of Injuries and deaths is intrinsically linked to a series of chronic inefficiencies, such as lack of suitable road infrastructure, vehicle standards and training, post-crash response systems, but also Traffic Management. Road safety management practices in Africa cover risk prevention, road infrastructure planning, strategic traffic congestion management plans, including optimizing traffic signal timings and applying also innovative solutions and making use of locally adapted carpooling incentives and smart mobility. The Session will delve into key gaps and their causes as well as into the analysis of road traffic management patterns while it will discuss country -specific use cases, the roles of different stakeholders and current and future actions in field of traffic and road management, that can bring change and enhance road safety and implementation strategies across Africa.
Moderator: Johanna Tzanidaki, AYA Consulting
- Kiran Kapila, IRF India
Traffic Management and Road Safety in LMIC - Katerina Deliali, CINEA
How Horizon Europe projects AFROSAFE and TRANS_SAFE support African countries in reducing road traffic fatalities and injuries
- George Yannis, Professor, NTUA
Road Safety Knowledge Exchange in LMICs
- Siveshni Pillay, PIARC TC 2.4
Point of view from PIARC TC 2.4 – The role of innovation in LMIC
- Jan Coetzee, Innovative Transport Solutions (Pty) Ltd, South Africa
Road Safety Work and Policies in South Africa - Claudious Muzuva, Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe
Evaluating Road Safety Measures in Zimbabwe: Impact on Traffic Fatalities and Injuries