Helping you improve road safety Here's what's on at Traffex 2024
Road Safety Sessions
Sessions at Traffex
Wednesday 22 May 2024
12:00
Panel: Designing and Maintaining Roads for a Safer Tomorrow
12:00 - 12:40
Maintenance
- Discussing the science of passive safety: designing for human error and building safer roadsides.
- How do signs and lamp columns injure people and how can we prevent it?
- What does data tell us about where to prioritise investments in pursuing Vision Zero?
Speakers
12:40
Roadworks Reshaped: Harnessing Technology to Alleviate Congestion, Enhance Sustainability and Boost Safety
12:40 - 13:00
Maintenance
Traffic Management
- At which point of a project do you consider the impact of congestion on road-users, including public transport and pedestrians?
- Steps we can take at design stage to reduce risk for highways workers, and road users.
- Sustainable solutions currently available that can keep traffic flowing, with particular focus in urban areas, and intermediary solutions to be considered when permanent systems are being replaced.
Thursday 23 May 2024
12:00
Panel: How Can We Bring Together Behavioural Change and Innovation to Improve Safety?
12:00 - 12:40
Behaviour Change
- Behaviour Change Science: the scientific foundation of behaviour change will be highlighted, stressing the importance of applying theories, approaches, and logic models to drive effective road safety interventions.
- Purposeful Innovation: the need to avoid pursuing innovation solely for the sake of innovation will be underscored.
- Collaborative Potential: the significant potential in collaborative efforts and knowledge-sharing will be explored as an important component for driving innovation and enhancing road safety outcomes.
- Scientific Design and Evaluation: the critical role of rigorous scientific design and evaluation in ensuring that interventions lead to the desired behaviour change.
- Professionalisation of the Sector: the importance of professionalising the road safety sector to ensure behaviour change approaches improve safety.
Speakers
Moderator
12:45
Increasing Road Safety through Effective Traffic Control Design
12:45 - 13:05
Artificial Intelligence
Traffic Management
- Effective problem identification using AI technology supported by robust collision and casualty analysis.
- Confident design through simulation, visualisation, and traffic control software.
- Proactive assessment using immediate and long-term solutions.
13:10
Enhancing Road and Worker Safety through Drone-based Inspection and Monitoring
13:10 - 13:30
Maintenance
- Discussing the use of drones for structural inspections to improve worker safety, eliminating the need to have inspectors work in areas with dangerous traffic, at high altitude or in risky confined spaces.
- Considering the case study of Netivei Ayalon: a major highway operator in the Tel-Aviv metro area where an inspection was conducted without the need to stop traffic.
