Organisation: Agilysis & Road Safety GB
Date uploaded: 2nd April 2019
Date published/launched: March 2019
The theme for the conference was ‘The Transformative Power of Data’, with the programme focusing on topics including data science and measuring behaviour.
The event was opened by Liz Brooker MBE, chair of Road Safety GB, who emphasised the need for all involved in road safety to focus on the data and evidence in order to better plan interventions.
The keynote speaker, Katherine Williamson, head of analysis at the DfT, showed the way forward for road safety data and analysis with a greater emphasis in the future on matching collision data to other information sources.
In a session dedicated to performance indicators, David Davies (PACTS) and Richard Leonard (Highways England) explained why these are just as important as reviewing casualty data in understanding underlying levels of safety.
The conference also featured a session on collision data with Bruce Walton (Road Safety Analysis) and Delphine Robineau (DfT) reviewing recent changes in reporting of STATS19 data and the impact on results at a local level.
The final session set out to answer the question, ‘What do road safety engineers want?’ in a presentation from Paul Copeland (East Riding of Yorkshire), followed by an in-depth review of the methodology sitting behind the recent review of 20mph limits – plus a discussion on measuring risk to cyclists by Dr Rachel Aldred and Georgios Kapousizis.
The event was summarised by Jeremy Phillips, Road Safety GB’s director of research, who also formally announced the creation of the analysts’ ‘Champions Network’ – which will allow regional representatives and other national experts to review new opportunities to better inform understanding of road risk and road danger, and share best practices locally.
All of the presentations are available for download from the link below.
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