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Improving Road Safety Through Partnership: Safer Roads For All
Tuesday 13th September 2011, Central London, 09:15 - 16:05

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Overview
Road safety remains a central concern for the government and local authorities. Road related deaths and serious injury cost the economy an estimated £3 billion annually. As the number of vehicles registered in the UK rises and the impact of severe weather on the roads continues to be felt, effective strategies to ensure road safety will be of paramount importance.

The government have made significant steps to make Britain’s roads safer. In October 2010, the government undertook wide-scale reform of the practical driving test with the introduction of Independent Driving. This is designed to test candidate's driving skills under normal traffic condition and is intended to provide a more accurate measure of learner drivers ability. The government will also cease publication of the questions used in theory tests, to further test a candidate’s knowledge of road safety and the Highway Code.

In May 2011, the Department for Transport published the Strategic Framework for Road Safety. The report outlines the extended range of educational options for road users charged with driving offences and strategies for improving enforcement against the most dangerous drivers. The report also has a focus on localism, increasing the road safety information available to local citizens.

Agenda
This forum will discuss how the government and relevant authorities will take forward current and future road safety strategies and implement the Strategic Framework. Sessions will focus on what can be done to reduce KSI for all road users, including cars, cyclists, motorcyclists, larger vehicles and pedestrians. The forum will include keynote presentations from leading thinkers in the area and will include best practice case studies from leading local authorities.

09:15 Registration and Coffee
10:00 Chair’s Welcome Address
Dr John Mumford, Trustee, Road Safety Foundation (CONFIRMED)
10:10 Morning Keynote: The Government’s Vision For Road Safety
The government’s vision for road safety: Strategic Framework for Road Safety
Improving road safety together: empowering local citizens and local service providers
Allowing local authorities to make full use of existing powers and flexibilities in setting their own speed limits and speed enforcement
The role of central government in improving road safety
Developing more targeted and effective marketing, building upon best behavioural science
Improving road safety through the Big Society
Future use of speed cameras
Andrew Colsk, Head of Vulnerable Road Users Branch, Road User Safety Division, Department for Transport (CONFIRMED)
10:30 Developing Skills and Attitudes to Safer Driving for Life
Education: helping new qualified drivers to gain the necessary attitudes and experience to be safe and responsible road users
Developing a new post-test qualification
Introducing independent driving
Improving the initial training for learner drivers
Reforming the regime for re-testing disqualified drivers
Right skills and qualifications for driving instructors
Creating a culture of continued and lifelong learning for riders, drivers and those who train them
Trevor Wedge, Chief Driving Examiner and Director for Safer Driving, Driving Standards Agency (DSA) (CONFIRMED)
10:50 Improving Road Safety Together: Empowering Local Citizens and Local Service Providers
Decentralising funding and removing targets and performance frameworks to create more room for local flexibility and innovation
Working with the private sector and third sector in the delivery of road safety initiatives
What does the Big Society mean for road safety?
How can local communities directly influence the use of their roads
Empowering and capability building
Communities making the decisions on the most appropriate local speed limits
Robert Gifford, Executive Director, Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport (CONFIRMED)
11:10 Questions and Answers Session
11:30 Coffee Break and Networking
11:50 Improving Road Safety Amongst Young People
Acquiring social skills to empower young people to understand and manage risk
Changing attitudes and behaviour of young people
Empowered young people and their contribution to road safety
The role of driving schools in helping youngsters start their driving careers responsibly with advanced safe driving skills
Kevin Clinton, Head of Road Safety, Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (CONFIRMED)
12:10 Managing Financial Constraints
The impact of the funding reductions to councils on road safety
Identifying local needs using Area Profiling
Reaching out to communities more effectively
Tried and Tested: What’s already working?
How can local authorities work together to further improve road safety?
Richard Owen, Operations Director, Safer Roads (CONFIRMED)
12:30 Questions and Answers Session
12:45 Lunch and Networking
13:45 Research and Evidence: Supporting Innovation in Improving Road Safety
Advancements in technology – vehicle and road design
Supporting research and development – sustainable funding
Strategies for meeting casualty reduction targets
Understanding the causes of road accidents
Testing vehicles to ensure national safety standards
Sharing and analysing information
Role of new technologies in road safety
Using Behavioural Science to Improve Road Safety
Professor Andrew Parkes, Chief Scientist, Transport Research Laboratory (CONFIRMED)
14:05 Case Study: Reducing Road Collisions and Accidents By Improving Road Design - Innovative Solutions
Leighton-Linslade traffic scheme: benefits for road users
Designing road engineering schemes that produce a range of benefits and win-win situations for various user groups
Introducing both traffic calming and traffic flow improvement measures to create safer interactions between user groups
Tackling congestion to improve road safety
Lessons learnt and best practice
Basil Jackson, Assistant Director for Highways and Transportation, Central Bedfordshire Council (CONFIRMED)
14:25 Questions and Answers Session
14:45 Coffee and Networking
15:05 Work-Related Road Safety: Driver Training
Improving planning of journeys – safe completion of journeys
Strategic importance of freight transport to the economy
Beating driver fatigue
Sharing the road: better education for other road users
Ian Edwards, Director, Edriving Solutions (CONFIRMED)
15:25 Work-Related Road Safety: Driving for Better Business
Ensuring employers understand their responsibility to ensure employees safety on the road
Connecting buisinesses to the community
Getting businesses and industry involved in the road problems
Creating compliance, implementing enforcement
Adrian Walsh, Director, Driving for Better Business (invited)
15:45 Questions and Answers Session
16:00 Chair's Closing Remarks
16:05 Close

*programme subject to change without notice

Exhibitor IBI Group

Audience
Delegates will include road safety managers, transport planners, transport coordinators, highways managers, transport network managers, logisticians, engineers, transport research organisations, school travel officers, architects and planners, NHS, PCT, and will be drawn from central government, local authorities, highways agencies, charities, and emergency services.