The topics listed below are public policy subjects of current interest to the FIA Foundation. ‘Current interest’ means that they are topics either being actively monitored by the Foundation or currently included in our programme activities. The ‘current interests’ list serves as a guide to those interested in the work of the Foundation or in making an application for grant support. The list is reviewed and approved each June by the Board of Trustees.
Within the ‘current interests’ list some subjects have been marked with an asterisk. This signifies that they are considered by the Programmes Committee to be currently major priorities of the Foundation.
A) Road Safety
1) Global Road Safety Issues
a) Systems approach to road safety management
b) United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety*
c) Global road traffic injury data
d) Child road safety issues/education
e) International Co-operation on traffic injury prevention (Commission for Global Road Safety/Make Roads Safe)*
2) Driver Behaviour and safety training
a) Seat belt and use*
b) Alcohol and speed awareness campaigns
c) Enforcement
d) Driver licensing and training
e) Road safety education
3) Vehicle Safety
a) Active safety (pre-crash avoidance) intelligent vehicle systems*
b) Passive safety (occupant protection) crash test programmes*
c) Child restraint systems
d) Pedestrian protection
4) Road Infrastructure
a) Road design/quality standards
b) Road assessments/audits for safety performance*
B) Environment – Air Quality & Climate Change
1) Vehicle Emission Technologies
a) Exhaust Emission Controls
b) Hybrid and Zero Emission systems
2) Fuel Quality
a) Low/Zero sulphur fuels*
b) Unleaded petrol
3) Fuel Economy
a) Fuel saving technologies
b) Consumer information
c) Driver behaviour
4) Inspection and Maintenance
a) On Board Diagnostics
b) Roadworthiness testing
5) Climate Change
a) Motor vehicle CO2 reduction strategies*
b) Carbon sequestration
C) Sustainable Mobility
1) Traffic Growth Management
a) Decoupling economic/transport growth
b) Fiscal policies and car use
c) External costs and benefits
2) The Car and Society
a) Transport and social exclusion
b) Car dependency
c) Public attitudes monitoring