Scientific Research on Road Safety Management 2009 Workshop

Programme of the workshop:

Sunday 15 November

from 18:00 onwards:

Arrival of speakers and other participants, reception/registration,

informal get-together party and dinner at De Philharmonie

Dinner starts at 19:00

Monday 16 November

08:30-09:00

Reception and registration for late arrivals

09:00-09:30

Opening statement by Fred Wegman, Managing Director SWOV

The European Commission's perspective by Jean-Paul Repussard, Road Safety Unit, DG TREN

The World Bank's perspective by Tony Bliss

09:30-12:30

Predicting road safety developments

Chair:	Richard Allsop (University College London, UK)
Speaking:	‘Monitoring national casualty trends in Great Britain’ Jeremy Broughton & Jackie Knowles (Transport Research Laboratory, UK)
	‘Strengthening Road Safety Strategey Development ‘Towards Zero’ 2008-2020 - Western Australia’s Experience’ Bruce Corben, David Logan, Lisa Fanciulli, Iain Cameron & Roger Farley (Monash University, Australia / Western Australia's Office of Road Safety)
	‘The expected number of road traffic casualties’ Henk Stipdonk, Paul Wesemann & Ben Ale (SWOV / TUDelft, NL)

12:30 Lunch

14:00-17:00

Evaluating road safety measures and programmes

Chair:	Shalom Hakkert (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
Speaking:	‘Road Safety in France: the hard path toward science-based policy’ Jean Chapelon & Sylvain Lassarre (ONISR / INRETS, France)
	‘To which extent Road Safety Performance Indicators allow to explain road safety development: A critical view based on the experience of Central European Countries’ Péter Holló, Vojtech Eksler & Joanna Zukowska (Hungarian Institute for Transport Sciences / CDV Transport Research Centre, CZ) / Gdansk University of Technology, PL)
	‘Is the effect of quantified road safety target sustainable?’ S.C. Wong & N.N. Sze (University of Hong Kong / TUDelft)

19:00 Dinner

Restaurant Stempels

Tuesday 17 November

09:00-12:15

General methodological issues

Chair:	Andrew Hale (Technical University Delft, NL)
Speaking:	‘The mistaken belief in the power of cost-benefit analysis’ Rune Elvik (TØI Institute of Transport Economics, N)
	‘On prediction in road safety’ Ezra Hauer (University of Toronto)
	‘Towards a method to forecast the effectiveness of national safety programmes’ Stefan Siegrist (Swiss Council for Injury Prevention – BFU)

12:15-12:30

Closing remarks by Fred Wegman, Managing Director SWOV

Lunch