RADAR Project Partner, Automobile and Motorcycle Association of Slovenia (AMZS), presented the first Road Safety Infrastructure Training. It has been an inspiring three days of interacting with engineers, road designers, other experts involved in roads and traffic, licensed road safety auditors, as well as representatives of road authorities. The official launch in Slovenia was the first of many Road Infrastructure Safety Training and it was unarguably the best start the RADAR project could hope for. 

Road Infrastructure Safety Trainings proved useful and effective, noticed by the leaders of the first trainings in Slovenia; 
Jure Kostanjšek and Klemen Filipič from AMZS, as well as Marko Ševrovič from European Institute of Road Assessment (EIRA).

The Head of mobility at AMZS, Jure Kostanjšek, commented that the “Three-day RADAR training in Slovenia was a huge success, as we managed to present first day topics at the National Road Safety Agency road safety annual event, intended for licensed road safety auditors. Present were also traffic police representatives. At day 2 and 3, Chamber of engineers acknowledged RADAR trainings for licensed engineers attending the trainings to gain points for their license’s renewal. Also, representatives from Ministry, University for Civil Engineering, engineering companies, road designers and licensed road safety auditors attended the trainings. Feedbacks from trainings were exceptional, also participant’s interactive cooperation during trainings proved their interest.”

Not only were the participants active cooperative, but they were also highly interested in stimulating their knowledge about the procedure and workflow of the road assessment approach. Even though the road assessment has been active in Slovenia for almost ten years, the participants “saw opportunities for further work, also as a basis or as complementary information to their road audit/inspection works,” explained Jure Kostanjšek.

Jure Kostanjšek noticed that beside road assessment Star Rating programme, Star rating for design, star rating for schools and cycle rap gained many interests. On the first training other possibilities were discussed, for example, correlation with road condition measurements, skid resistance measurements in order to identify the most problematic road sections in terms of infrastructure deficiencies.

The 3-day in-person training with additional two days of webinar courses will be deployed in Hungary, Montenegro, Croatia, Bulgaria, Moldova, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Austria and the Czech Republic in the period from March to November 2019. 

More about RADAR Road Safety Infrastructure Trainings here.