Injury Mitigation to PROmote Vision-zero Achievement

Injury Mitigation to PROmote Vision-zero Achievement

Find new years of reducing serious injuries and long-term consequences of road crashes.

Find new years of reducing serious injuries and long-term consequences of road crashes.

Injury Mitigation to PROmote Vision-zero Achievement

Injury Mitigation to PROmote Vision-zero Achievement

Find new years of reducing serious injuries and long-term consequences of road crashes.

Find new years of reducing serious injuries and long-term consequences of road crashes.

What is IMPROVA?

IMPROVA is an EU-funded project dedicated to enhancing road safety by addressing the complexities of long-term consequences (LTC) caused by road traffic accidents. Committed to ensuring a high quality of life for all road users, IMPROVA goes beyond merely saving lives by focusing on understanding, quantifying and mitigating the impact of the long-term consequences (LTC) linked to road traffic accidents.

IMPROVA offers open access to project findings and results to improve accessibility to resulting LTC scales, models, methodologies, and procedures. This will empower the global community to collectively advance road safety and prevent the long-term consequences of injuries.

IMPROVA Approach

Imagen Ampliada
48

Months

13

Partners

4.4M

Budget

9

Number of advisory board members

Project objectives

01.

Identify and describe the impact of serious injuries and LTC due to road traffic accidents.

02.

Develop methods for targeted data collection and assessment of LTC

03.

Link criteria-based results from physical and virtual tests and field data to evaluate LTC

04.

Refine HBMs2 regarding their capabilities to predict injuries related to LTC

05.

Assess risks for serious injuries and LTC through the development of HBM2 -based virtual testing procedures

06.

Vigorous policy support for technical and behavour-change countermeasures against LTC

07.

Address and mitigate the LTC associated with road traffic injuries at EU level and abroad

Improve the knowledge basis

Improve virtual testing tools and procedures

Improve policy

Ensure long term impact

Project objectives

01.

Identify and describe the impact of serious injuries and LTC due to road traffic accidents.

02.

Develop methods for targeted data collection and assessment of LTC

03.

Link criteria-based results from physical and virtual tests and field data to evaluate LTC

04.

Refine HBMs2 regarding their capabilities to predict injuries related to LTC

05.

Assess risks for serious injuries and LTC through the development of HBM2 -based virtual testing procedures

06.

Vigorous policy support for technical and behavour-change countermeasures against LTC

07.

Address and mitigate the LTC associated with road traffic injuries at EU level and abroad

Improve the knowledge basis

Improve the knowledge basis

Improve virtual testing tools and procedures

Improve virtual testing tools and procedures

Improve virtual testing tools and procedures

Improve policy

Ensure long term impact

IMPROVA expected results

01.

Adapted long-term consequences (LTC) scales

02.

IMPROVA formula to predict a LTC likelihood

03.

Questionnaire-codebook to collect road traffic accident data about LTC

04.

Provide the classification of injury mechanisms leading to LTC

05.

HBM capable of predicting LTC-relevant injuries

06.

Demonstration of virtual testing (VT) procedures applicable to consumer test programmes and legislations

07.

Procedures, guidelines and recommendations addressing long-term psychological consequences of road crashes

08.

Guidelines and recommendations for regulatory bodies and consumer protection programmes​

09.

Dedicated LTC knowledgebase forum to collectively tackle ​LTC complexities

Partners and network of experts

The IMPROVA network, consisting of NCAPs, US, Australian, and Asian entities, and a medical and psychological expert panel group, will help harmonise not only the knowledge of the long-term consequences but also the data collection and evaluation of such injuries leading to LTC and the use of appropriate tools validated for this purpose.