International Dealer News IDN 133 October/November 2016

COMMENT: Statistics, Safety and Shows ..................................................................................................Page 4
German motorcycle registrations +4.06 percent for first eight months ................................................Page 7
Motorcycle registrations in Spain +9.66 percent January - August 2016............................................Page 7
Andreani World Suspension Academy, November 7/8, 2016 ..........................................................................Page 10

OCT/NOV 2016
ISSUE #133

ACEM safety priorities STATZONE
Technology, Training and Policy
The European Association of
Motorcycle Manufacturers
(ACEM) staged their 12th annual
conference in Brussels in
September, with the focus firmly
on continuing improvements to
the safety of Europe’s riding
community.
In a keynote speech that warned
against complacency and highlighted
opportunity in equal measure, Stephan
Schaller, the President of ACEM, IMMA
and BMW Motorrad, said that “over the
last decade we have witnessed a
substantial improvement in motorcycle
safety.
“The latest data available from the
OECD’s International Road Traffic
Accident Database (Organisation for
Economic Development/IRTAD) shows
that the number of fatal accidents
involving powered two-wheeler users
decreased from 7,612 to 4,262
between 2000 and 2014, a reduction
of 44%.
“Although these statistics are certainly
encouraging, they should not be a
reason for complacency. Our industry
strongly believes that further efforts are
needed to reduce road fatalities and
serious injuries”.
“This is why, in addition to
manufacturing some of the safest and

most advanced vehicles in the world
today, we are already preparing our
industry for the future. The industry has
adopted a Memorandum of
Understanding on Intelligent Transport
Systems (ITS), and is working together
with the car industry in the Car2Car

Stephan Schaller: “In order to
achieve lasting safety
improvements, further cooperation
between all relevant stakeholders
is needed”

Communication Consortium”.
Additionally, in 2015 three of ACEM’s
members launched the Connected
Motorcycle Consortium, a platform
open to members in the motorcycle and
automotive industry to carry out joint

R&D activities in the field of ConnectedITS.
“Motorcycle training is another priority
for our industry. Motorcyclists must be
able to make better and informed
decisions about their training, so that
they can ride confidently and safely. For
this reason, ACEM has joined with the
German Road Safety Council to launch
a European Training Quality Label for
post-license training (see page 10).
“But in order to achieve lasting safety
improvements, further cooperation
between all relevant stakeholders is
needed. We all have a responsibility for
road safety – either as transport
providers, road users or road
authorities. This is one of the reasons
why throughout 2016 ACEM organised
a series of thematic workshops in
different European countries to identify
opportunities to further improve
motorcycle safety at national level.
“We must be instrumental in doing
what we can to make Europe’s roads
better and safer for all of us. Doing so
will help society to further reap the
benefits that motorcycling brings
through quality of life, jobs and
services, affordable mobility and
reduced traffic congestion levels, to
name just some of them”.
See also pages 18-19

“THE SAFE RIDE

YARD BUILT

TO THE FUTURE”

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