7th IRTAD Conference: Better Road Safety Data for Better Safety Outcomes
ITF Meeting
Objectives
The 7th IRTAD Conference focused on improvements in the quality of data systems and data analysis in IRTAD and other countries as an essential way to build and monitor strong road safety policies in the Decade 2021-30.
Organisers
The Conference was jointly organised by the International Transport Forum with the Université Gustave Eiffel, CEREMA, ONISR and ENTPE.
Opening session
Crash causation. Fred Wegman, Chairman of IRTAD
Road safety data analysis to inform policy decision making. Manuelle Salathé, Observatoire national interministériel de la securité routière (ONISR), France
Building capacity for improved road safety data in low and middle income countries. Veronica Raffo, World Bank
Data driven road safety strategies
Implementing the Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030 - the need for different data. Kacem Iaych, World Health Organization (WHO)
Creating a cultural maturity model to assess Safe System readiness within road safety organisations. Tanya Fosdick, Agilysis, United Kingdom
The use of crash data in an Indian State to develop Safe System solutions. John Fletcher, TRL, United Kingdom
The use of data for a better road control policy: the case of Morocco. Bilal Dafa, National Road Safety Agency, Morocco
Assessment of road safety measures
Speed cameras in Sweden. Effects on speed and traffic safety. Anna Vadeby, VTI, Sweden
Urban road safety policies: how to measure and evaluate. Florian Vanco, Cerema, France
Car driving licences for 17 years old - road safety effects in Finland. Riika Rajamäki, Traficom, Finland
Assessing the acceptability of an innovative safety system to warn road users of wrong way driving. Catherine Roy, Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhône (APRR), France, and Alexis Bacelar, Cerema, France
Serious road traffic injuries
The Rhône road trauma registry. Celine Vernet and Jean Louis Martin, Université Gustave Eiffel, France
Estimating the number of seriously injured road users using the national hospital data, France, 2010-2019. Emmanuelle Amoros, Université Gustave Eiffel, France
Estimating the number of serious injuries in the United States. Chou Lin Chen, National Highway Traffic Safety Agency (NHTSA), United States
Linking a road trauma registry and hospital discharge data to improve the ICD-AIS mapping, France, 2015-2021. Mélanie Yvroud, Université Gustave Eiffel, France
Severely injured cyclists: analysis of Belgian hospital data for 2016-2020. Heike Martensen, VIAS, Belgium
Management of road safety data
The global safety database as an objective metadata platform for the worldwide analysis of road safety approaches on the way to Vision Zero. Michael Wagner, Forschungsvereinigung Automobiltechnik e.V. (FAT), Germany
Underreporting of road traffic deaths in Senegal. Kacem Iaych, World Health Organization (WHO)
Data-driven road safety: developing a systematic framework for proactive and comprehensive road safety management. Sofia Salek de Braun, PTV Group TO COME
Progress in UK road safety statistics: the development of statistics on drug-driving. Mike Dark, Department for Transport (DfT), United Kingdom
Crash causation and risk factors
FLAM: a database for the identification of causal factors in French fatal crashes. Benoit Hiron, Cerema, France
Identifying roads with 75% of travel in LMICs. Craig Smith, Agilysis, United Kingdom
Female crash fatality risk relative to males for similar physical impacts. Chou Lin Chen, National Highway Traffic Safety Agency (NHTSA), United States
Accident risk indicators: methods and results. Florian Vanco, Cerema, France, and Malo Quancard, Observatoire national interministériel de la securité routière (ONISR), France
Influence of driver age and road class on German accident type. Walter Niewohner, DEKRA, Germany
Vulnerable road users
Aggravating factors for crashes between passenger cars and vulnerable road users. Heike Martensen, VIAS, Belgium
Is the cyclist still dafe at roundabouts? Erik Donkers, VIA Software, Netherlands
The improvement of cyclists' conspicuity in urban environments, with safety messages for car drivers. Joceline Rogé, Université Gustave Eiffel, France
Project SABRINA: Bicycle Route Assessment for Cyclists' safety across the Danube region Euro-Velo routes. George Ursachi, Agile Transport Analysis, Romania
New mobility and road safety
A comparison of crash, person, and environment characteristics between electric and conventional vehicles. Kira Hyldekær Janstrup, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU), Denmark
Data for evidence: overcoming the problem of insufficient information on accidents involving new forms of active mobility by generating specific data as a basis for evidence-based analyses. The example of accidents with eletric bycicles. Tobias Panwinkler, Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt), Germany
Accident involvement of personal mobility devices in Lyon. Anne-Sarah Bernagaud, Cerema, France
Typology of risky situation involving a personal mobility device in Île-de-France. Clément Lavardet, Université Gustave Eiffel, France
E-scooters in Germany - Accident development and challenges. Jacqueline Lacroix, Deutscher Verkehrssicherheitsrat e.V. (DVR), Germany
Local and regional road safety observatories
Regional observatory learnings on improving country road safety data management. Dave Shelton, Asian Development Bank
Western Balkans Road Safety Observatory (WBRSO): challenges and opportunities. Liljana Çela, Transport Community
Road safety monitoring centres in Italy: the case of the Lazio Region. Davide Shingo Usami, Universitá La Sapienza, Italy
Crash data systems within the Eastern Partnership Road Safety Observatory. Katerina Folla, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
The IRTAD/World Bank guidelines for conducting road safety data reviews. Gilles Duchamp, Cerema, France
Road safety performance indicators
The Baseline project: a European framework for measuring road safety performance indicators. Peter Silverans, VIAS, Belgium
Collection of key performance indicators for road safety in Greece. Katerina Folla, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
Road safety key performance indicators. Jenny Carson, European Transport Safety Council (ETSC)
Setting priority measures to meet targets and KPIs: the Greek national road safety plan 2021-2030. George Yannis, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
Social costs of road accidents in Italy. Lucia Pennisi, Automobile Club Italia (ACI), Italy
Analysis of road safety data
How to use historic accident data for a reliable assessment of traffic safety measurements. Lisa Sulzberger, Robert Bosch, Germany
Traffic fatalities during the Covid-19 pandemic: a time-series analysis. Christos Katrakazas, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
Linked police and health data: how to apply capture-recapture to correct for under-reporting and bias. Emmanuelle Amoros, Université Gustave Eiffel, France
GB road safety performance index. Richard Owen, Agylisis, United Kingdom
Road safety data collection: new methods, new sources
Using computer vision on crowdsourced streetview data to register safety performance indicators for motorcyclists. Fredrik Hüttel, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU), Denmark
Driver behaviour KPIs through smartphone telematics - The BeSmart project. George Yannis, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece
A fresh approach to web scraping of news sites for in-depth studies of crashes. Rob Decae, SWOV, Netherlands
Identifying high risk routes for coach travel using collision records, telematics devices, and vehicle sensors. Lyndsey Owen, Agilysis, United Kingdom
Scientific Committee
Members of the Scientific Committee are:
- Jindrich Fric (Czech Republic, CDV)
- Laurent Carnis (France, Université Gustave Eiffel)
- Dominique Mignot (France, Université Gustave Eiffel)
- Henri Chajmowicz (France, LAB PSA Renault)
- Susanne Schönebeck (Germany, Bast)
- George Yannis (Greece, NTUA)
- Fred Wegman (Netherlands, Delft University of Technology)
- Tanya Fosdick (United Kingdom, Agilysis)
- Chou-Lin Chen (United States, NHTSA)
- Veronique Feypell (ITF), Stephen Perkins (ITF), Rachele Poggi (ITF)