Study AbroadProfessional Community        Search
  PDF reader
Adobe Acrobat Reader Logo
Download the free Acrobat Reader from Adobe to view PDF files on this site.
  

  Introduction Minimize
View the presentation given at 2003 NAFSA Annual Conference in SaltLake City, Utah.

The Association for Safe International Road Travel (ASIRT) is a pioneering and dynamic organization. ASIRT is the only U.S. based international organization dedicated to improving global road safety through education and advocacy by forming partnerships with governments, corporations, international educators and civil society. Over one million individuals perish in road crashes annually, more than 3,000 daily.

It is estimated that 23-34 million people suffer injuries due to road crashes worldwide annually. The global annual cost of road crashes is estimated to be $500 billion. Domestically, global road travel is the single greatest risk to healthy Americans traveling abroad. ASIRT's goal helps increase awareness of the need for road safety preparedness for everyone involved in study abroad (e.g. campus administrators, international program officers, program providers, faculty-led programs, students and families). Road safety preparedness will help ensure the personal safety and success of the study abroad experience. ASIRT was created in response to the loss of 25 year-old Aron Sobel in a 1995 bus crash in Turkey. Even though such accidents are 20 times more likely to occur in Turkey than in the U.S., the State Department confirmed that little or no such road-hazard information was available to the public at that time.

We hope that you will include ASIRT's road safety information in your itinerary and student orientation planning. Please consider joining ASIRT to stay informed about road safety issues abroad and to help increase road safety awareness among study abroad professionals and participants. Membership in ASIRT will entitle you to access ASIRT publications geared to study abroad as well as Road Travel Reports see Sponsorships. Please also check our Study Abroad section entitled ASIRT Safety Brochures. For more information, E-mail asirt@asirt.org.
     

  Workshops Minimize
  • Passport to Road Safety, NAFSA Annual Conference (Association for International Educators), Utah 2003.

  • Prioritizing Road Safety: Keeping Students Safe Abroad, NAFSA Region 8 Conference, November 23, 2002.

  • Presented a poster session on "Road Safety In Study Abroad", May 2002 and May 2001, NAFSA Annual Conference.
     

  Current Study Abroad Members Minimize

Current Study Abroad Members:

- George Washington University
- Academic Risk Resources and Insurance
- Dickinson College
   http://www.dickinson.edu/global/
- Goucher College 
   http://www.goucher.edu/x4737.xml
- Meredith College
   http://www.meredith.edu/abroad/
- Smith College
   http://www.smith.edu/studyabroad/
- Tufts
   http://ase.tufts.edu/studyabroad/
- University of Massachusetts
    http://www.umass.edu/ipo/sax_main.html
- Bentley College
  http://www.bentlet.edu/undergraduate/academics/special/abroad.cfm
- Lynn University
   http://www.lynn.edu
- Suffolk University
   http://www.suffolk.edu/studyabroad/index.html
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute
   http://www.wpi.edu/academics/depts/IGSD
- Georgia Institute of Technology
   http://www.oie.gatech.edu/sa/index.html

     

  Testimonials Minimize

“At Goucher College, we have found the Road Travel Reports to be very useful. We provide them to the faculty leaders of our Intensive Courses Abroad (ICA’s) at an annual Risk Assessment Workshop. The India report actually changed how we approached risk management for a new ICA in India, India: Solving the Puzzle. It alerted us to dangerous road conditions en route to the Taj Mahal.”

- Jacqueline Haring, Assistant Director of International Studies, Goucher College

 

 

"I believe that the Global Road Safety Toolbox for the Study Abroad Community and ASIRT's many other efforts contribute greatly to educating the traveling public on road safetty. I am convinced this Toolbox will help save American lives on roads and highways overseas."

-Maura Harty, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs

 

 

"An internationally-focused Road Safety Manual for Study Aborad Administrators will fill a long-standing need in the field. Along with its country-specific Road Travel Reports, ASIRT has taken the lead on this one safety issue and promises to serve as a first-rate resource for all who plan education abroad programs"

-Adrian Beaulieu, Associate Dean of International Study, Smith College, Massachusetts

 

 

"It is incumbant on everyone involved in the education abroad enterprise to prepare students, educators, hosts and parents alike. This handbook [A Global Road Safety Toolbox] is intended to aid all of these individuals in the process of encouraging education abroad participants to be safe road travelers."

-Carl Herrin, Director of Government Relations, American Councils for International Education

     

Make a donation
  

Home / Global Outreach Programs / Road Travel Reports / Study Abroad / Priority Issues / Sponsorships / Events
Copyright 2001-2009 by ASIRT Terms Of Use Privacy Statement