Welcome to the Eastern Alliance for Safe and Sustainable Transport
Making road travel safer, greener and more sustainable for future generations.
This year, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have taken our All-EASST Partners meeting online. Last month we all met up on Zoom to catch up, reflect, discuss how the pandemic is impacting road safety, and how we can use our work to help countries build back better.
With the support of a grant by FedEx Express Europe, we have been working with the Belarusian Auto Moto Touring Club and local disability groups to turn old high visibility PPE into ‘mascots’ or tags for school book bags and children’s coats to promote visibility and safety on the roads.
Last month the Lviv University of Life Safety marked the official opening of their new Rescue Training Centre with a demonstration of road crash rescue for the President of Ukraine featuring FIRE AID’s transformer car.
EASST launches new resources for school bus safety and UNICEF and the Child Health Initiative publishes guidance to support safe and healthy journeys to school during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
Our newest EASST partner, Urban Forum Kazakhstan, have been working with young people in the East Kazakhstan city of Ust-Kamenogorsk (Oskemen) to create safer routes to school.
Safe and accessible spaces for pedestrians and cyclists are now the priority in Tbilisi.
The National Automobile Club of Azerbaijan and the World Bank launch new research project to investigate the socio-economic cost of road crashes in Azerbaijan.
Safety and accessibility improvements set to transform one of Chisinau’s most dangerous roads.
City authorities in Yerevan, Armenia have passed a new law lowering urban speed limits by 10km/h. This will serve as a pilot, with a view to reducing speed limits across the whole country.
Our latest blog discusses the need to build back better when it comes to sustainable tourism and how this links to road safety, active mobility and clean transport.
What we do
Our road safety projects focus on seven priority areas to develop sustainable transport systems and make roads safe across the region.
Children’s Road Safety
Occupational Road Safety Management
Disability, Mobility and Road Risk
Road Safety Enforcement
Post-Crash Response
Road Safety Governance and Capacity Building
Sustainable Mobility
Where we work
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