Knowledge Network
What's New
2011-2020 UN Decade of Action for Road Safety
The United Nations has declared 2011-2020 the Decade of Action for Road Safety. The declaration complements last year's announcement by the seven multilateral development banks for A Shared Approach to Managing Road Safety. Launching 11 May 2011.
Reducing road casualties
- 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. Register to access MAST for free.
- Traffweb packages your road collision data to facilitate sharing among colleagues and with the public.
Dealing with Risk
Download the UK Road Boards' 2nd edition (July 2009) of its excellent practical advice on innovative design (MfS etc).
Beyond 2010
Read the DfT's Consultation on road safety targets beyond 2010.
Read IHE's comments.
Read Northern Ireland's new Road Safety Strategy.
Read PACTS evaluation of road safety 10 years on from Tomorrow's Roads (March 2010).
EU 2010 Policy published.
Local speed proposals
A proposed revision to the Department's advice on setting local speed limits.
View DfT's consultation (December 2009).
Speed Cameras
Download casestudies of evolving local policies on siting cameras post-2007.
Statistics
- New DfT road accident statistics website open to the public to analyse and examine.
- GB Road Casualties show a drop in KSIs. Will it last?
- Stats 19 review was to be implemented in January 2011. 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
TfL Road Safety website
Topics such as:
- Casualty data reports and fact sheets
- Road safety research reports and studies
- Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA)
- Road safety education resources available in London
- Road safety campaigns
- LRSU's engineering and road safety audit procedures
- Motorcycle safety in London
- A diary of international/national road safety events
- News bulletins from LRSU and road safety in general
Rural non trunk Roads (October 2009)
TRL report with potential policy options.
Larso is now Road Safety GB
It is seeking to broaden its scope and will be campaigning on: driver behaviour, particularly young motorists; impairment through drink and drug driving; motorcyclists and vulnerable road-users. Now operates TimeBank which will be replaced by the Road Safety Knowledge Centre in summer 2010 - freely open to all.
Understanding the Recreational PTW Rider
New book by Paul Broughton, Owl Research and Linda Walker, University of Stirling on Transport.
Young Drivers at Work
Birmingham, Buckinghamshire and Lancashire are working on a new driving-for-work qualification with the Department for Transport, Driving Standards Agency, Driving for Better Business and in partnership with RoSPA. It is particularly aimed at young drivers.
THINK!
See DfT THINK! survey (October 2008).
Tales of the Road
www.direct.gov.uk/talesoftheroad has interactive games for children and education material for teachers. Part of a new £1.5m THINK! campaign.
DfT Road Safety research
- Free DfT seminars on current topics.
Email. Presentations on RS and Partnership working now available (July 2009).
Join Road Safety related Action Learning sets. - Motorcyclists motivations and attitude (TRL report PPR442)
- Faber Maunsell to evaluate road safety policies and procedures in England
- TRL on road-user safety issues in relation to cycling. Completion September 2010.
- Leeds University on low cost ways to control speed. The report assesses 20 interventions.
Public Service Review
Read the IHE article (March 2009).
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Training/Events
New Certificate of Competence in Road Safety Engineering
From June 2010 RoSPA/TMS will offer delegates attending the 10 day RSE (AIP) course, the option of obtaining such a certificate of competence.
Evidence based practice in Road Casualty Reduction
Plymouth course in conjunction with Devon CC.
Newcastle Road Safety courses
Three two day courses on policy, AIP and RSA followed by an assessed report based on a practical exercise equates to 10 CPD days.
www.ncl.ac.uk/cegs.cpd/cpd/404cpd.php#transport
Road Safety Expo
2010: 25 November at QEII, Westminster.
Evaluating road safety interventions
A Cranfield course: 2-3 June 2010.
Road safety advert: YouTube hit
View the seatbelt advert from Sussex.
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