A new interactive website launched today by the iRAP International Transport Statistics Programme, details and compares current and historic transport-related information for all G8 countries and the fast growing major economies in Europe, Asia and Latin America. For the first time, the wider international community has been brought together in collating statistics on topics including demographics and transport infrastructure, traffic and travel, vehicle stocks, safety, and energy and emissions. Visitors to the site can browse the information presented, search for specific data by country and topic, or interrogate the complete data set by building their own tables and graphs online. Funded by the FIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society, the iRAP International Transport Statistics Programme aims to provide objective, basic facts as a ready reference tool for commentary, and combines statistics from publicly available sources with raw data from national motoring clubs, research institutions and governments that would be difficult to obtain directly. www.iraptranstats.net is a follow up to the highly successful Automobile and Society report, published in September 2003, the first high quality flagship publication detailing and comparing transport-related information and examining the role of the automobile in developed countries.
iRAP (International Road Assessment Programme) is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to saving lives in developing countries by making roads safer. iRAP targets high-risk roads where large numbers are killed and seriously injured, and inspects them to identify where affordable programmes of safety engineering could save lives. iRAP is a partnership of auto clubs, development banks, governments and research institutes and has been adopted in 30 countries worldwide.
Data available for Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Italy, Japan, Poland, Russian Federation, Spain and USA.
