Evonik to announce winner of global Road Safety Award in August

Evonik will announce the winner of its Road Safety Award in August followed by an award ceremony at a global or regional road safety event at the end of 2017.
June 1, 2017 Read time: 2 mins
Evonik will announce the winner of its %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal Road Safety Award false http://www.degaroute.com/ true false%> in August followed by an award ceremony at a global or regional road safety event at the end of 2017.


Applications for this, the second year of the 4009 Evonik Road Safety Award, closed at the end of May. The award acknowledges and rewards the contributions to road safety of public authorities worldwide.

Last year’s winner was Thailand’s department of rural roads for a comprehensive road safety initiative around schools, especially in rural areas. Second place was for coloured zebra crosswalks at school zones in Chongqing, China. Third place went to advanced stop lanes for motorcycles in Indonesia.

The prize is €10,000 in the form of a sponsored road marking application, a donation of traffic safety related items, or a donation to a non-profit organisation. It is bestowed by 4009 Evonik upon identification of the winner by an independent jury of internationally recognised experts in the field of road safety, transport and city design.

The 4009 Evonik Road Safety Award is designed to support sustainable road safety initiatives. Key criteria for the winning project/initiative are its contribution to road safety (60%), sustainability (20%), innovation (10%) and replicability (10%).

A Project Candidate can be any completed infrastructure initiative which includes some form of road marking with at least a one-year track record. Qualified applicants are public authorities from a city, state, national or regional level, responsible for such an initiative.
 
The jury consists of Adnan Rahman and Susanna Zammataro at the International Road Federation. Rahmann is general director and senior transportation consultant at the IRF, while Zammataro is executive director and environment expert.

The two academic jurists are Markus Oeser and Paul 2599 Carlson. Oeser is head of the Chair-Professor for Pavement Engineering & Director of the Institute for Pavement Engineering at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany. 2599 Carlson is senior research engineer and division head at Texas A&M Transportation Institute in the US.

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