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Workshop Scientific Research on Road Safety Management

On 16 and 17 November 2009, SWOV organized the international workshop Scientific Research on Road Safety Management. This workshop focused on the methodological aspects of ex-post and ex-ante assessments of road safety policy. Approximately 50 experts from all over the world participated in this workshop. On the basis of nine oral presentations they discussed questions like

• How can we determine in a scientifically sound manner whether a road safety plan has had the desired effect?
• How can we make scientifically sound forecasts of the future developments for different policy scenarios?
• How can we determine the effects of quantified targets?

More information about the workshop (written prior to the workshop by professor Wegman)

 

Presentations

Predicting road safety developments   ‘Monitoring national casualty trends in Great Britain’ Jeremy Broughton & Jackie Knowles (Transport Research Laboratory, UK) ‘Strengthening Road Safety Strategey Development ‘Towards Zero’ 2008-2020 - Western Australia’s Experience’ Bruce Corben, David Logan, Lisa Fanciulli, Iain Cameron & Roger Farley (Monash University, Australia / Western Australia's Office of Road Safety) ‘The expected number of road traffic casualties’ Henk Stipdonk, Paul Wesemann & Ben Ale (SWOV / TUDelft, NL)

Evaluating road safety measures and programmes     ‘Road Safety in France: the hard path toward science-based policy’ Jean Chapelon & Sylvain Lassarre (ONISR / INRETS, France) ‘To which extent Road Safety Performance Indicators allow to explain road safety development: A critical view based on the experience of Central European Countries’ Péter Holló, Vojtech Eksler & Joanna Zukowska (Hungarian Institute for Transport Sciences / CDV Transport Research Centre, CZ) / Gdansk University of Technology, PL) ‘Is the effect of quantified road safety target sustainable?’ S.C. Wong & N.N. Sze (University of Hong Kong / TUDelft)

General methodological issues   ‘The mistaken belief in the power of cost-benefit analysis’ Rune Elvik (TØI Institute of Transport Economics, N) ‘On prediction in road safety’ Ezra Hauer (University of Toronto) ‘Towards a method to forecast the effectiveness of national safety programmes’ Stefan Siegrist (Swiss Council for Injury Prevention – BFU)