15-18 JUNE/2025

We are precisely two years away from our triennial conference.

As was previously announced, this time it will be in Portugal in the beautiful city of Alcobaça. Our enthusiasm is high, because besides being our first conference in Portugal, we elected the city of Alcobaça as the host city for the Conference.

2025 -Time for Change: Traffic Safety for a sustainable World will be the title of the conference because the year 2025 brings together several challenges. In fact, as we all know, 2025 is an important milestone in the Second Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030 (UN General Assembly Resolution 74/299). We will be exactly in the middle of the global challenge for all of us: to achieve the decade’s goals (50% reduction in the number of road traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2030). This challenge makes us responsible for the action calling the governments, national and international entities, road safety experts, civil society, academia and other stakeholders/ organizations to take a new path — one that emphasizes safety as a core value within the Safe System and sustainable mobility.Traffic Safety and sustainable mobility is our concern. and we have chosen Alcobaça to share experiences and knowledge worldwide.

Alcobaça is located in the Oeste region (one hour from Lisbon). With a magnificent location between the mountains and the Atlantic coast, the soul of the city of Alcobaça is defined by the Alcobaça Monastery, a masterpiece of Cistercian architecture. Alcobaça is known worldwide for its beauty and heritage ass well as its natural, cultural and gastronomic wealth. A perfect connection of history and cultural richness, hand in hand with a disarming hospitality.

 Welcome messages from officials in Alcobaça

Hermínio Rodrigues – Mayor: As Mayor of Alcobaça, we want Alcobaça to be a world reference in the reflection about the challenges of the Decade of Action and that the practices associated to Traffic Safety regarding Alcohol and Drugs. This conference will mark progress towards the global target for 2030. We are a city that bets on sustainability and safety, in the most diverse ways of action. Our commitment to hotels is a reflection of this, inviting everyone to experience the different options, from the hotels in the city to those in rural areas. It will be a pleasure to receive you in our land of passion.”

Inácia Caeiro – President of the Commercial, Services and Industrial Association from Alcobaça and Region of Leiria (ACSIA): “Safety in mobility is a concern of ours that we share with our associates. We represent the industrial, commercial and service sectors and we are committed to involving everyone in the construction of a safe place to live. As President of ACSIA, and member of the T2025 organizing committee, it will be an honor to be able to involve all members in a single voice: Safe together, building a better future, with Traffic Safety. We are committed to T2025. Welcome to Alcobaça.”

The words we share only translate part of what we feel. As an international expert, member of the ICADTS Board (Member at Large), member of the ACSIA Board and native of Alcobaça, I am committed to share with you this challenge I embraced when I took on the organization of T2025. In the next editions of the reporter, we will share more details about T2025 and Alcobaça. See you soon…

“It is crucial that we join hands and take responsibility for our common goals of sustainable development and building safe mobility without alcohol and drugs”

Fátima Pereira da Silva – Conference Chair – T2025