Association for Safe International Road Travel
Cause Area
- Community
- Emergency & Safety
- Health & Medicine
- International
- Politics
Location
11769 Gainsborough RoadPotomac, MD 20854 United StatesOrganization Information
Mission Statement
ASIRT is a non-profit, humanitarian organization that promotes road travel safety through education and advocacy. ASIRT provides travelers with road safety information, enabling them to make informed travel choices. ASIRT serves as a resource to governments, corporations, travel organizations, guidebooks, study abroad programs, health/travel clinics and non-governmental organizations. ASIRT helps foster the development of new road safety organizations in other countries.
Description
What We Do
ASIRT
ASIRT
- encourages members of Congress to recommend that the State Department take an active role in raising awareness of the risks of global road travel.
- recommends that U.S. embassies worldwide help initiate collaborative efforts between American-based civil society road safety organizations and host country civil society.
- works with representatives of foreign governments to demonstrate the importance of transferable models of road safety education and advocacy.
- creates satellite ASIRT organizations abroad to promote road safety education and advocacy
- develops road safety information in cooperation with the international education community
- organizes and participates in road safety forums to raise awareness at study abroad and travel medicine conferences, workshops, travel fairs and public education meetings.