ILCAD

ILCAD 2011

Aymeric Boniou — 2012-02-23T11:03:33Z

The International Level Crossing Awareness Day (ILCAD) is a yearly campaign aimed at making the road users and pedestrians aware of the dangers at and around the level crossings. SAVE THE DATE: Next Edition to take place on 7 June 2012

Press releases

Please find below the press releases in French, German, English, Spanish, Greek, Polish, Portuguese and Georgian.


PRESS RELEASES

UIC e-news on the International ILCAD Press Conference in Warsaw, Poland

http://www.uic.org/com/uic-e-news/242/

Watch our video on the International Press conference on ILCAD in Warsaw on 7 June

or clik on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY95...

ILCAD video:

NEW: video montage for ILCAD 2011:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3W6...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...

To participate to this campaign or to access our posters resources, please contact Isabelle Fonverne

The purpose of this campaign is because, when compared to other rail operational statistics, too many people die or are injured in accidents at level crossings. These however are in the majority of cases due to misuse by motorists and pedestrians whilst the popular misconception is that these fatal accidents are a railway problem. Conferences on the issue show that the only really effective way to decrease the number of accidents, short of closing all level crossings, is education, highlighting the risks and making people aware of the potential consequences if they do not follow the simple rules of the road.

Running under the motto “Act safely at level crossings” the railway community, in conjunction with a small but rising number of road sector organisations and in conjunction with the European Commission and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), has established the ILCAD campaign to raise awareness among road users and pedestrians of the risks at level crossings and to change their behaviour. More than 40 countries around the world have been engaged again in ILCAD 2011. You can join free of charge as all activity is on a purely collaborative basis.

Building on the successes of the 2009 and 2010 campaigns, the ILCAD 2011 (International Level Crossing Awareness Day) focused on the principle date: 9 June 2011.

In addition the United Nations "Decade of action for road safety 2011-2020" has been officially launched on 11 May. UIC as the ILCAD coordinator has been granted permission to use the logo of their campaign in our communication actions on ILCAD as an event related to road safety.

So join us and help the railway community to reduce this level of operational risk that we face at the interface with the road sector.

NEXT EDITION: 7 June 2012

For more information please contact the ILCAD Coordinator: fonverne uic.org

ILCAD 2012

Maguelonne de Cossart — 2012-02-20T15:05:46Z

LAST NEWS! 2nd UIC drawing contest for children on level crossing safety officially launched.

ILCAD Partners in the world

The UIC and the railway community, in conjunction with a rising number of road sector organisations, the European Commission and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), have established the ILCAD (International Level Crossing Awareness Day) campaign to raise awareness among road users and pedestrians of the risks at level crossings and to change their behaviour.

When compared to other rail operational statistics, too many people die or are injured in accidents at level crossings. These however are in the majority of cases due to misuse by motorists and pedestrians whilst the popular misconception is that these fatal accidents are a railway problem. Conferences on the issue show that the only really effective way to decrease the number of accidents, short of closing all level crossings, is education, highlighting the risks and making people aware of the potential consequences if they do not follow the simple rules of the road.

In 2011 more than 40 countries committed around the world, over 500 press articles were published and in several countries level crossings hit the headlines on prime time on television and radio.

In addition to the ILCAD website created in 2010 and hosted by UIC (around 17,000 connections) the UIC decided to use social networks more frequently in 2011: An ILCAD facebook page was launched (170 friends), as well as a twitter page on which all kind of information related to level crossing safety is being published: photos, videos, press articles, partners' actions. For Christmas a blog was created.

Building on the successes of the 2009, 2010 and 2011 campaigns, the ILCAD 2012 (International Level Crossing Awareness Day) will focus on the principle date: 7 June 2012 under a single logo and motto “Act safely at level crossings”. This motto exists now in more than 20 languages.

More and more countries around the world join our action. What about you ? You can join free of charge as all activity is on a purely collaborative basis.

So join us and help the railway community to reduce this level of operational risk that we face at the interface with the road sector.

SAVE THE DATE : 7 June 2012

For more information on the past campaign please visit the dedicated website or contact the ILCAD Coordinator

ILCAD 2010

Aymeric Boniou — 2011-03-30T14:46:05Z

International Level Crossing Awareness Day (ILCAD) on 22 June 2010 (next edition 9th June 2011)

Christmas campaign

Estonian official campagne webpage: http://www.operationlifesaver.eu/id...
And Estonian version on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daF6...
RUSSIAN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvAZ...
German poster and video on RSE website http://rse-bonn.de/index.php?id=62&...[tt_news]=101&tx_ttnews[backPid]=51&cHash=3ea4d6b20f on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUnV...
POLISH poster and video to be watched on PKP PLK website www.bezpieczny-przejazd.pl and on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c1p...
PORTUGUESE poster and video to be watched on And on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9flr...
ENGLISH (ILCAD) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZlD...
FRENCH (ILCAD) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj4W...
ITALIAN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W24k...
LITUANIAN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajIW...

Despite all the measures taken to indicate the presence of level crossings and make them safe, too many road users and pedestrians are killed or injured at such crossings each year around the world. Almost all accidents at level crossings are due to road users failing to observe mandatory stop lights, signals and basic traffic safety rules. Contrary to what is generally thought, most accidents involve “regulars”, in particular those living near and/or making regular use of a level-crossing, as familiarity habit makes them less careful or more reckless, which may prove fatal.

In order to reduce these accidents, countries are making efforts to remove level crossings. This is, however, a long-term undertaking because there are still hundreds of thousands of level crossings in the world and removing them involves huge costs and relatively long study and implementation times.

This is why education of road users ans pedestrians remains key and imperative to reduce level crossing accidents.

On 22 June 2010, the rail and road sector in more than 40 countries worldwide are organising together the International Level Crossing Awareness Day (ILCAD) to make people understand that these accidents could be avoided if they obey the traffic rules and are aware of the danger of risky behaviors at level crossings.

The International Level Crossing Awareness Day focuses on educational measures and the promotion of safe behavior at and around level crossings. It is built on existing national events which will be held jointly at various locations in every participating country on 22nd June 2010 and constructed around the common message “Act safely at level crossings!”. In addition to regular or permanent activities held throughout the year, many special communications actions have been planned across the 5 continents: fleyers handed out at level crossings, in schools, driving schools, scouting clubs etc., posters will be displayed in railway stations, on trains and other central places, special messages will be broadcast on radio, television and led screens in railway stations, press conferences will be organised with national and local press.

In addition the European Commission totally financed a video clip showing a bad behavior at a level crossing to aware the public, particularly the road users and pedestrians on the dangers at and around level crossings. This video is avalaible in English and may be used by all ILCAD campaign partners free of charge on internet worldwide, and free of charge in Europe only on tv, cinemas, screens in train stations or aboard trains and on internet and on internet worldwide. All partners in the campaign will upload the video on their own website, sometimes only in English or with the official logo and the motto in their own language.

Please read also the latest DG MOVE newsletter (pages 2 and 3) http://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_...

Read also a special issue on LX http://www.lxinfo.org/june_10/campa...

And the UIC e-news http://www.uic.org/com/english/uic-...

And visit the EC website and click on the video on the homepage http://ec.europa.eu/transport/road_...

To read some press releases on ILCAD: A press conference has been organised on 22nd June in the press conference room at the EC's Berleymont's building: to watch it please click on http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/play...
http://www.eulib.com/commission-sup...
http://www.erscharter.eu/inaction/b...
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressRelease...
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressRelease...
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressRelease...