Events

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Aiming for Zero

Event Date: 9:30 am March 23, 2012
Location: London
This conference will look at the challenges for road safety over the coming years if we are to seek to achieve a British version of Vision Zero. Although the current environment for casualty reducti..

22nd Westminster Lecture

Event Date: 6:00 pm November 30, 2011
Location: London, Church House
The 22nd Westminster Lecture on Transport Safety will be given this year by Dr Jillian Anable, Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Transport Research, University of Aberdeen. The title of her Lecture ..

Older, Wiser, Safer: the Challenge of an Ageing Population

Event Date: 9:30 am October 13, 2011
Location: London
There is considerable media interest in the population changes facing Britain over the next twenty years. As the “Baby Boomer” generation approaches retirement, we hear a lot about the e..

Driving for Better Business: Managing Risk, Improving Performance

Event Date: 9:30 am March 23, 2011
Location: London
As many as one in three road casualties may be injured while driving for work. This includes not just the drivers of heavy goods vehicles, buses and coaches but also those who are driving cars on th..

Roads, Casualties and public health: the open sewers of 21st century?

Event Date: 6:00 pm November 23, 2010
Location: London, Institution of Mechanical Engineers
21st Westminster Lecture on Transport Safety.Every century comes with a major public health warning about the harm that we inflict on ourselves. In Britain in the nineteenth century it was the disea..

Better, Safer Communities: the contribution from street design

Event Date: 9:30 am October 6, 2010
Location: London
Over the last few years, there has been considerable professional, political and media interest in new approaches to street design. Shared space, de-cluttering, the naked street and simplified stree..

Local Road Safety Delivery Beyond 2010 : The Challenges and the Opportunities

Event Date: 12:30 pm September 23, 2010
Location: London
On 23rd September 2010, the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS) will be holding an afternoon discussion forum to explore the challenges and opportunities for local road safet..

Fast Forward: Can technology help the vulnerable road user?

Event Date: 9:30 am March 10, 2010
Location: Birmingham
We all know that our vehicles have become more technologically sophisticated in recent years. Anti-lock braking systems are now fitted as standard on all new models of car. They have been followed b..

20th Westminster Lecture

Event Date: 6:00 pm December 1, 2009
Location: Westminster
Putting People at the Centre: How to Enhance Road Safety in the 21st Century. Fred Wegman, Managing Director, SWOV Institute for Road Safety ResearchABOUT THE SPEAKERFred Wegman has been Managing Di..

Safety and CO2: Can we both tackle climate change and continue to make road transport safer?

Event Date: 1:00 pm November 23, 2009
Location: Institution of Mechanical Engineers
On November 23, PACTS joins forces with the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers to undertake a closer look at whether and how we tackle climate change and cont..

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