The Abertis road safety program includes more than 60 years of knowledge and experience in the construction and management of motorways with the highest quality standards.
Through this global program, transversal teams from all disciplines and geographies work together to ensure knowledge and application of the best practices in road safety on Abertis' roads.
We work on a vision of road safety focused on five pillars: safe infrastructures, road safety management, safer vehicles, safer users and post-crash response.
Thinking about the future, Abertis, through its Foundation and the different companies of the Group, yearly carries out awareness campaigns aimed to reduce accidents, addressed at groups such as children, youth and old people.
Abertis has a global alliance with Unicef to fight road traffic accidents involving children and promotes road safety projects in different countries. We are also UN ambassadors for the fight against road traffic accidents, actively participating in its UN's International Road Safety Group.
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We have our roads designed and constructed to be safe from day one. And we invest in making our existing roads safer - such us adding extra lanes, constructing pedestrian bridges, installing safety barriers, creating secure bus stops, removing obstacles, and improving signage and street lighting.
We carry out assessments throughout the life of the assets using both internal and independent, internationally recognised tools and methodology.
iRAP audits across our network provide the information needed to develop targeted operational investment plans to improve road safety performance.
Our experienced operations – through patrolling, incidents management and providing information to drivers – ensure a high level of safety for road users, mitigate incidents and enhance the quality of post-crash response.
Abertis and Unicef have signed an alliance to work together in the prevention of childhood accidents. Traffic accident injuries are the leading cause of death among children and adolescents over 10 years of age worldwide. Every day, more than 3,000 children die or suffer injuries in the roads of the world, according to the Child Health Initiative. The collaboration between Abertis and Unicef is a long-term agreement to prevent accidents and to guarantee children a safe journey to school.
A ground-breaking partnership with leading GPS-based navigation provider Waze to improve the accuracy and reliability of information provided to drivers.
This two-way data exchange increases the speed at which road users receive alerts on congestion and hazards, and enhances the speed and accuracy of our incident response.
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The Abertis Foundation develops awareness projects on the importance of road safety aimed at children; for example, giving talks in schools.
Arteris, our operating company in Brazil, runs Projeto Escola, an award-winning primary school road safety education programme – this has been running for running for 19 years reaching 18,000 teachers and 320,000 students from 701 schools across five states.
The Abertis Foundation carries out shocking awareness-raising actions related to reckless driving in discos, leisure centers or cinemas, such as the viral campaigns The Blackout, I Can Wait or You Have One Life Left.
We raise awareness around the mobility of the elderly and the importance of having regular medical check ups.
The Abertis Chairs Network promotes the training, research and transfer of knowledge between University and Business.
The programme is now run in partnership with five leading universities in Spain, France, Brazil, Chile and Puerto Rico with prizes awarded to recognise the very best academic research in Transport Infrastructure Management, Innovation and Road Safety.
We conduct annual studies into real-time driver behavior on major sections of our roads, monitoring the safety of their driving practices – using the information to take effective action and to shape policy responses. The study was launched in France in 2012, and is being replicated in Spain, Italy, Brazil, Chile and Argentina.
