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Safe city cycling: collaboration project SWOV and New Zealand 8 July 2015 New Zealand wants to identify cost-effective ways of promoting safe city cycling and has therefore entered into a collaboration with SWOV with special focus on the future of the bicycle in urban transport systems in New Zealand.
ETSC: '2014 was a bad year for road safety' 20 June 2015 Progress on reducing road deaths in the EU slowed to just -0.6% last year, the worst annual reduction since the first common EU target was set in 2001, according to new analysis published today by the European Transport Safety Council.
Memorandum of Understanding between iRAP en SWOV 13 May 2015 At the EuroRAP General Assembly which was held in April 2015 in Reykjavik, SWOV's  managing director Peter van der Knaap and iRAP CEO Rob McInerney signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which makes SWOV an iRAP Centre of Excellence.
Heather Ward and Henk Stipdonk to co-chair ETSC Road Safety Performance Index programme 29 April 2015 As of June 2015, Heather Ward (University College London) and Henk Stipdonk (SWOV) are to take over as co-chairs of the ETSC Road Safety Performance Index (PIN) programme steering group.
SWOV's Marjan Hagenzieker appointed professor Traffic Safety at Delft University of Technology 1 September 2014 SWOV's scientific advisor dr Marjan Hagenzieker has been appointed full professor Traffic Safety at Delft University of Technology. One of the themes she will focus on, is how to ensure road safety in modern urban environments with many different kinds of road users and divergent interests.