EuroMed Road Safety Project

Project Descreption:

The project aims at reducing injuries and deaths of fatal road accidents in the Southern area of the Mediterranean Sea. The pilot project was selected by the advisory committee formed by all bodies concerned with road safety with regard to the development of performance and capacities of experienced drivers to raise the level of traffic safety on roads, through training the drivers to raise the level of traffic awareness among them to be reflected in their driving behavior. The project also aims at installing equipment to control the movement of the vehicle and the behavior of the driver in number of vehicles to create an integrated control system. The pilot project was launched in a press conference held on 18/8/2013. Introductory workshop for the pilot project held on 10/2/2013 in cooperation with Hikmat Institution for Traffic Safety and attended by a group of companies and institutions that own transport fleets. Defensive Driving Training was developed in cooperation with the Ministry of Public Works & Housing/Al-Ahliyya Amman University. Three training courses were held for drivers of Jordan Petroleum Refinery Company/Zarqa in cooperation with trainers at Jordan Traffic Institute during the period 19/8-2/9/2013. The period for performance evaluation of trained and untrained groups will be determined through collection and analysis of data of 42 trainees who underwent the training courses and comparison of such data with the random sample of the bus drivers carrying dangerous goods from other companies during the year 2014.

Work is ongoing at the stage of performance evaluation for the above mentioned Categories until the end of 2014.

Project Status:

Under implementation