Walking and Cycling
Safety Management Systems
Roundtable Report, Policy Insights,
21 December 2018
- Management commitment to establishing safety policies and objectives
- Inclusion of explicit safety (non-punitive) reporting procedures
- Safety performance monitoring and measurement
- Identification of accountable management employees
- Appointment of key safety personnel responsible for safety oversight and promotion
- Implementation of a risk management process to identify hazards and associated risks
- Safety training at management and employee levels
Policies to Extend the Life of Road Assets
Research Report, Policy Insights,
20 December 2018
- Introduce a proactive approach for the maintenance of road assets.
- Build a proactive, data-driven approach to the maintenance of road assets.
- Strive for continuous professionalisation in road asset management.
- Move from managing the assets to cross-asset management.
- Adopt regulatory frameworks that treat the use of road assets as an economic input.
- Implement infrastructure pricing for trucks to improve cost recovery.
- Better understand the reasons for non-compliance with truck weight limits.
- Focus on positive incentives for efficiency in regulatory and compliance frameworks.
- Develop use cases and business models for the digital infrastructure of truck traffic management.
- Create incentives for the logistics sector to implement truck traffic management.
- Improve awareness of the mutual impact that policies have on the environmental performance of road freight transport and extending the lifespan of road assets.
- Focus on creating a comprehensive regulatory environment rather than on individual measures.
Walkability in Amsterdam: More space for the mother of all modes of transport
Presentation, slides, speech,
28 November 2018
Safer City Streets - Current Research on European Cities
Presentation, slides, speech,
28 November 2018
Reviewing speed limits: the case for multi-criteria analysis
Presentation, slides, speech,
28 November 2018
Prioritising walking to create a safe and accessible city
Presentation, slides, speech,
28 November 2018
How to monitor motorist behaviour at pedestrian crossings
Presentation, slides, speech,
28 November 2018
Invisible Road Signs: Why truck drivers' visibility must improve to enhance road safety
Presentation, slides, speech,
28 November 2018
New directions for data driven transport safety: Impact of GDPR on road safety policy making
Presentation, slides, speech,
28 November 2018
Crowdsourced sensor data helping to improve cyclist safety
Presentation, slides, speech,
28 November 2018
Speed and crash data: Combining speed and crash data for safer city roads in The Hague
Presentation, slides, speech,
28 November 2018
Estimating city-level burden of road-traffic-collision fatalities
Presentation, slides, speech,
28 November 2018
Safer City Streets: Global Benchmarking for Urban Road Safety
Research Report, Policy Insights,
20 November 2018
- Develop mobility observatories in cities.
- Collect traffic casualty data from hospitals, not only from police records.
- Adopt ambitious targets to reduce the number of casualties.
- Focus on protecting vulnerable road users.
- Use appropriate indicators to measure the safety of vulnerable road users in cities.
- Estimate daytime population to improve the comparability of traffic safety statistics.
- Prioritise research on urban road crashes.
The Impact of Alliances in Container Shipping
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
2 November 2018
- Adopt a presumption toward repeal of shipping-specific block exemptions from competition law.
- Improve project appraisal for port and hinterland infrastructure and adopt common principles for port pricing.
- Establish more coherent ports policies to clarify roles and reduce risk of creating over-capacity.
The case for regulating ridehailing and dockless bicycles
Presentation, slides, speech,
1 November 2018
Policy Directions for Establishing a Metropolitan Transport Authority for Korea's Capital Region
Case-Specific Policy Analysis, Policy Insights,
31 October 2018
- Address coordination between jurisdictions at all territorial levels.
- Make establishment of the Metropolitan Transport Authority an integral part of decentralisation.
- Leverage support of the national government to establish the Metropolitan Transport Authority.
- Engage with public opinion to create broad support for the creation of a Metropolitan Transport Authority.
- Choose the right scope when defining responsibilities of the new Metropolitan Transport Authority.
- Focus on delivery of the government’s priority objectives for transport provision.
- Provide the Metropolitan Transport Authority with the necessary technical and financial capacity using fiscal instruments that bring mobility benefits as well as raising funds.