Date: June 22, 2010
Document: casualties-in-greater-london-during-2009.pdf
Category: Road
This fact sheet provides a summary and initial analysis of personal injury road traffic collisions and casualties in Greater London in 2009 compared with 2008 and the average for 1994-1998, which is the base period for the Mayor’s 2010 casualty reduction targets.

Posted 1:31 pm June 22, 2010

Date: June 11, 2010
Document: road-rail_interface_str_full.pdf
Category: Multi-modal

This is RSSB‘s second special topic report focusing on the risk that arises at the road-rail interface. It reviews the performance levels achieved during the last ten calendar years at the points where highways meet the railway. It presents the levels of risk and harm to passengers, the workforce and members of the public from bridge strikes, road vehicle incursions and the operation of level crossings. Note that the term harm‘ refers to the actual level of injury to people that has been recorded, and the term risk‘ refers to the average level of injury estimated by RSSB‘s Safety Risk Model.

This report reviews recent trends to highlight areas of changing safety performance and presents the first detailed results of monitoring against the National Reference Values (NRVs) and the Strategic Safety Plan (SSP) trajectories.

Posted 10:54 am June 11, 2010

Date: June 7, 2010
Document: Kerb Your Enthusiasm Executive Summary.pdf
Category: Road
Executive Summary of PACTS' report Kerb Your Enthusiasm.

Posted 9:46 am June 7, 2010

Date: June 7, 2010
Document: Kerb Your Enthusiasm.pdf
Category: Road

Over the last two years at least, there has been extensive debate around shared space.

Discussion has tended to focus on the potential safety risk to specific groups of vulnerable road users when faced with some of the design measures associated with shared space including level surfaces, removal of guard railing and a lack of signage.

PACTS aims to move the debate away from this microlevel focus and identify some of the wider issues coming from discussion surrounding shared space.

Posted 9:41 am June 7, 2010

Date: March 17, 2010
Document: Fatigue impacts of employee commutes.pdf
Category: Aviation
In February 2010 Dr Simon Bennett of the University of Leicester gave a presentation on fatigue to members of PACTS Aviation Safety Working Party. Dr Bennett kindly turned his talk into a paper.

Posted 1:08 pm March 17, 2010

Date: March 8, 2010
Document: iccts01330.pdf
Category: Rail
This paper updates Professor Andrew Evan's previous statistical analysis of fatal train accidents on running lines of the national railway system of Great Britain to the end of 2009, based on fatal accident data over the 43 -year period 1967 to 2009.

Posted 1:06 pm March 8, 2010

Date: March 2, 2010
Document: Beyond 2010 - Taking Stock and.. Forward .pdf
Category: Road

To mark the 10 year anniversary of the Tomorrow's Roads road safety strategy, the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS) has published this report to provide an evaluation of road safety in Great Britain ten years on. Using a model inspired by the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) PIN reports and building on findings from the two Three Year Strategy Reviews published by the Department for Transport this report centres on four key strands:

- Tomorrow’s Roads has provided direction for road safety in Great Britain: consolidating focus; helping to achieve political and public buy-in; and generating challenging but achievable casualty reduction targets. -

- Casualty reduction targets for Great Britain, set out in Tomorrow’s Roads, had already been met by the end of 2008 and the achievement should be recognised, but so too should the disparities, inequalities and difficulties within road safety today.                                                                                   

- Casualty reduction has not been consistent across user profile, type, behaviour or location. Additionally, the DfT have acknowledged that the STATS 19 data source is not a complete record of all injury collisions. There may also be divergences in data quality across different areas and user types.

- The next strategy needs to combine headline targets and high-level strategy approaches with structures which allow road safety delivery partners to establish more sophisticated internal targets and provide research and guidance to support them.

Posted 5:36 pm March 2, 2010

Date: February 2, 2010
Document: 20100120_150248_69270_TRS_Regional-Rural.pdf
Category: Multi-modal

The Transport Research Knowledge Centre (TRKC) gives you an overview of research activities at European and national level. For in-depth information, consult our programme and project profiles.

 

Information on transport research programmes across the European Research Area;
A compendium of European and national research funding mechanisms;
A project database of ongoing and completed European and national transport research projects. Main results and policy implications of the projects are outlined and categorised into key thematic areas;
Thematic analysis reports on the results and policy implications of completed projects;
Policy brochures presenting the highlights of the research results according to policy topics;
A links library to transport research government institutions, professional organisations, information relays;
Access to a data collection tool, where research project coordinators can submit research results from their own projects;
Helpdesk, Frequently Asked Questions, and a glossary of transport-related abbreviations.

http://www.transport-research.info/web/publications/thematic.cfm?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailmarketingsoftware&utm_content=843433289&utm_campaign=TRKCPressReleaseFebruary2010+_+oldwj&utm_term=Thematicpublications

Thematic publications
Transport research projects have an important role in supporting the policy development.

Project research results are analysed along 30 transport themes. The policy implications of the projects are analysed and compiled into Thematic Research Summaries. These reports are regularly updated as more information from completed research projects from both European and National research programmes becomes available.

The research summaries are comprised of:

•associated policy issues;
•a synthesis of findings from completed projects;
•a list of references to policy documents; and
•a list of projects contributing to each theme.

A recent example of what type of report TRKC publishes is the latest report on Regional and Rural Transport. The report can be accessed by clicking on the pdf.

Posted 10:18 am February 2, 2010

Date: January 7, 2010
Document: DrinkDriving in CommercialTransport ETSC.pdf
Category: Road

ETSC has just published the new policy paper on Drink Driving in Commercial Transport.

It has been prepared within the Safe&Sober campaign of ETSC supported by Volvo Group and gives an overview of how drink driving could be effectively tackled in commercial transport.

Posted 2:55 pm January 7, 2010

Date: December 14, 2009
Document: b4469.pdf
Category: Road

Road injuries are among the leading causes of loss of life and disability worldwide, and they are projected to make an increasingly important contribution to public health burdens over the coming decades, especially in low and middle income settings. Internationally, there is debate around how the development of transport infrastructure needed to meet the United Nations millennium development goals can be achieved without adding to the burden of injury that is currently disproportionately borne by poor pedestrians, particularly children and young adults.4-6 The United Kingdom has a comparatively good road injury record, with injury rates among the lowest in Europe. Nonetheless, in 2006 there were 2858 deaths and 26 066 serious injuries on roads in England and Wales, and reduction in these numbers remains a major aim of public policy.

There is good evidence internationally for the effectiveness of reducing the speed and volume of traffic for reducing injury rates.9-11 One strategy for reducing speeds in urban areas is the use of road engineering interventions such as vertical deflections (humps), chicanes, and other physical alterations to prevent
motorised traffic travelling at more than 20 miles an hour (32 km an hour). Zones in which traffic is limited to 20 mph are a type of area-wide traffic calming that uses road engineering measures to physically slow  traffic.

This research is published in the latest British Medical Journal Online edition. To read the rest of the article click on the link.

Posted 10:04 am December 14, 2009