Date: Thursday 17 May 2012
Venue: Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMECHE), London, UK
Time: 9am – 4pm
This event is kindly sponsored by Colas and Keltic Clothing.
Brake’s International Speed Congress 2012 is an essential event for road safety professionals. The event will bring together leading academics and practitioners from around the globe to discuss developments in reducing traffic speeds to save lives and enable walking and cycling on urban and rural road networks.
Excessive and inappropriate speed is a factor in a large proportion of crashes, killing and seriously injuring tens of thousands of people worldwide every year, devastating families and communities[1]. Research shows that a 1mph speed reduction can reduce collision frequency at the following rate:
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about 6% for urban roads with low average speeds
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about 4% for medium speed urban roads and lower speed rural main roads
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about 3% for higher speed urban roads and rural main roads [2].
Reducing traffic speed is a subject that often causes controversy in the media, which adds to the challenges faced by road safety professionals in preventing speed related casualties.
This congress will:
- Present the latest research, evaluation and policy thinking in reducing speed;
- Demonstrate innovation and new directions in speed enforcement, education, engineering and intelligent technologies in relation to speed reduction;
- Provide a forum for road safety professionals to network on this critical issue
Who should attend?
- Road safety officers
- Road safety partnerships
- Highways engineers
- Traffic police and other emergency services
- Academics
- Government representatives
- Insurance companies
- Organisations with an interest in safe driving or traffic management
DELEGATE FEES
Early bird: bookings made before 31 March 2012
Standard: bookings made after 1 April 2012
| Early bird | Standard | |
| Road Safety Forum subscribers | £112 | £141 |
| Non-subscribers | £144 | £181 |
TO BOOK CLICK HERE, or call Brake on 0044 1484 559909 or email admin@brake.org.uk
[1] For example:
In 2009, speeding was a factor in 31 percent of motor vehicle crash deaths in the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 2009
In New South Wales speeding is a factor in about 40 per cent of road deaths. Speeding was a factor in the deaths of 874 people over the five years 2004 – 2008. In addition to those killed, more than 4200 people are injured in speed-related crashes each year.
Roads & Traffic Authority, New South Wales, Australia
Exceeding the speed limit or driving too fast for the conditions was a contributory factor in 29% of all fatal crashes in the UK in 2009, resulting in 575 deaths.
Department for Transport, UK, Reported Road Casualties Great Britain 2009
