News from the Miami Technical Conference and International Board of Direction Meeting

Over the next few posts, you will see new from the Miami meeting. It was a great time, and was quite interesting.

One of the first items to report is ITE's commitment to become a Supporting Organization of the "Make Roads Safe" international campaign. ITE lends its support to this international effort to put global road traffic injuries on the G8 and UN Sustainability Agendas. As such, the organization urges the G8 and UN to:

• Fund a global action plan to improve road safety in developing countries;


• Ensure that at least 10% of road budgets provided by the World Bank and other major lenders is devoted to road safety; and


• Organize a UN summit to agree on a high level political commitment to action on global road traffic injuries.

Please see more information on Make Roads Safe at their website -- http://www.makeroadssafe.org/