Who should attend?

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75th Road Safety Congress 2010
Around the world in 2½ days: Lessons for the UK

22 - 24 February 2010
Holiday Inn Hotel, Stratford-upon-Avon

Call for papers

Presentations are invited on a range of road safety topics from innovative schemes outside the UK. Speakers invited to give their presentation do not pay a fee. Accommodation and meals are provided during the Congress, and help with travel expenses will be available.

To submit a paper

Please send an abstract of up to 500 words, no later than Friday September 18, 2009 to:
Kevin Clinton, RoSPA, Edgbaston Park,
353 Bristol Road, Birmingham B5 7ST
Email: kclinton@rospa.com

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Introduction
Who should attend?
Delegate packages
Venue
Provisional Programme

Introduction

The Government has proposed that Great Britain adopts a new long-term vision for road safety: 'Making Britain’s roads the safest in the world'. From 2010, Britain will be leaving the current road safety strategy and target period which began in 2000 and entering a new one, with fresh updated priority areas and new ambitious casualty reduction targets.

RoSPA’s Road Safety Congress in 2000 focused on the lessons the UK could learn from how other countries, and international organisations (such as the UN WHO and the EC) tackle death and injury on the road. Our Road Safety Congress 2010 will again explore what we can learn from how other countries address road safety. The programme will include examples of the following from other countries and international organisations:

• National, regional and global road safety strategies
• Case studies from individual countries of innovative road safety practice
• Examples of how some countries have made major road safety improvements in recent years at both national and local level
• Different approaches to those used in the UK
• The work and views of organisations, such as WHO, the UN etc.

Who should attend?

The 75th Road Safety Congress is relevant to researchers, practitioners and policy makers, especially:

Road Safety Partnerships

• Fire service
• Teaching organisations
• Armed forces
• Elected members (Councillors)
• Special interest groups
• Voluntary organisations
• Motoring organisations
  

Road Safety Managers

• Road safety and accident prevention officers
• Highway safety engineers
• Driver trainers
• Police officers
• Health promotion professionals
• Educational Professionals
• Occupational H&S Advisers

Delegate packages

The full delegate package:

• Accommodation for Monday and Tuesday
• Breakfast Tuesday and Wednesday
• Lunch on Tuesday
• Dinner on Monday and Tuesday
• Refreshments throughout the Congress

The day delegate package:

• Lunch on Tuesday
• Refreshments throughout the Congress

Venue

The hotel is located in the centre of Stratford-upon-Avon, one mile from the railway station, within easy reach of J15 of the M40 and 20 miles from Birmingham International airport. It overlooks the River Avon, and has a leisure club and free car parking for delegates. Stratford-upon-Avon is the perfect location for discovering Shakespeare's birthplace, while other local attractions and historical sites are within walking distance.

Provisional Programme

Monday 22 February 2010

• Congress opens at 2:00p.m.
• Global road accident and casualty figures and trends
• Which countries have made the best progress in recent years, and how
• oad safety strategies, targets and policies outside the UK
• Road safety and other policy areas (environment, health, economic)

Tuesday 23 February 2010

• Road safety education, training and publicityinitiatives
• Highway safety schemes and policies
• Development of vehicle technology (including motorcycles)
• Addressing driver standards and behaviour
• Graduated driver licensing
• At work road safety
• Enforcement in road safety

Wedensday 24 February 2010

• Promoting more and safer cycling
• Promoting more and safer motorcycling
• Promoting more and safer walking
• In-car safety
• Congress closes at 12:30pm