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2011-2020 UN Decade of Action for Road Safety

The United Nations has declared 2011-2020 the Decade of Action for Road Safety.

Reducing road casualties

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MAST - a DfT sponsored methodology using socio-demographic profiling to target road safety interventions. The web tools provide national crash data for user-customised in-depth analysis, with the help of MOSAIC, the socio-demographic database from Experian.
Road Safety Analysis reveals child road casualty risk (August 2010).
Traffweb - a data portal, providing live access to published data through any standard Internet browser.

Making it Count - New guidance for Local Authorities

This guidance addresses the difficult spending choices that will have to be made over the coming months (Sept 2010).

Dealing with Risk

Download the UK Road Boards' 2nd edition (July 2009) of its excellent practical advice on innovative design (MfS etc).

Road Safety Strategy

PACTS and RACF have updated 'Tackling the Deficit' to look at 'where next for road safety' (March 2011)
Read the DfT's Scoping Study on road safety targets beyond 2010. (April 2009)
Read Northern Ireland's Road Safety Strategy to 2020.
Read PACTS evaluation of road safety 10 years on from Tomorrow's Roads (March 2010).
A proposed revision to the Department's advice on setting local speed limits.
View DfT's consultation (December 2009).
EU 2010 Policy published.

Local speed proposals

Stilwell Road Safety offers srsCULTUREforschools - a web-based road safety education process.
SUSTRAN's Quality Streets campaigns for 20mph limits

Speed Cameras

Download casestudies of evolving local policies on siting cameras post-2007.

LTT559 reports that ACPO has agreed a new funding model for speed cameras (Nov 2010)

Speed camera information should be made public (December 2010)

Statistics

New DfT road accident statistics website open to the public to analyse and examine.
GB Road Casualties (November 2011 - provisional estimates)
Stats 19 - problems with Stats 19 were highlighted in Reported Road Casualties.
The UK Statistics Authority ordered DfT to improve its road casualty statistics by November 2009. View UKSA Assessment Report 4. But in January 2011 concluded that no further research would explain the disparities! View 5 January 2011 Monitoring Brief

Road Safety GB

Road Safety GB is a national road safety organisation that represents local government road safety teams across the UK.

Understanding the Recreational PTW Rider

Book by Paul Broughton, Owl Research and Linda Walker, University of Stirling on Transport.

Young Drivers at Work

The RoSPA Young Driver's At Work project was a two year project run between 2008 and 2010. The project was conducted with support from the Department for Transport's road safety partnership grant and with the help of a working group including the DfT, DSA, Buckinghamshire and Lancashire County Councils, Birmingham City Council, Roadsafe, and Tesco.com. The project has since been awarded a Prince Michael International Road Safety Award.

www.rospa.com

THINK!

Site for road safety professionals.

Tales of the Road

http://talesoftheroad.direct.gov.uk/ has interactive games for children and education material for teachers. Part of a £1.5m THINK! campaign.

Road Safety research

Speed Cameras: RAC Foundation's review of the evidence (Nov 2010)
Using behaviour to measure the sucess of route safety interventions (March 2011)
Saving lives, saving money - RACF/RSF/ADEPT report urges LAs to move on from 'first year rates of return'.
Motorcyclists motivations and attitude (TRL report PPR442)
Infrastructure and Cyclist Safety, TRL (November 2011)
RAC Foundation on the effectiveness of Education in Road Safety.
Children's perception of vehicle speeds and NICE guidance on under 15s.

Public Service Review

Read the IHE article (March 2009).

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Training/Events

New Certificate of Competence in Road Safety Engineering

RoSPA/TMS offer delegates attending the 10 day RSE (AIP) course, the option of obtaining such a certificate of competence.

Those who have already done to RoSPA course can also get the Certificate.

Evidence based practice in Road Casualty Reduction

Plymouth course in conjunction with Devon CC.

Newcastle Road Safety courses

Three two day courses on policy, collision prevention and reduction and RSA followed by an assessed report based on a practical exercise equates to 10 CPD days.