SoRSA is pleased to announce the return of its Annual Conference in June.
This event will be of interest to anyone who is involved in Road Safety Audits and is based in the UK. Whether you are a Developer, Project Manager, Designer, or Auditor, you need to be here to make sure you are up to date and informed on the latest industry practice and to meet your CPD requirements.
The conference will be taking place in Manchester on 19-20 June 2022 and the Annual General Meeting will take place on 19 June.
This year’s SoRSA conference will be taking place on 19-20 June 2023 at the Radisson Blu Hotel at Manchester Airport.
Across the 1.5 days, we will see a mix of presentations from road safety professionals across the industry, interactive workshops, networking sessions, a dinner, and the SoRSA AGM. This event is a must attend for all those working within the Road Safety sector within the UK.
Day one will play host to two workshops that will focus on 'Is this a Problem and is that a Recommendation?' and 'Is this a crash problem'. At the end of day one, delegates are welcome to attend the SoRSA AGM at 17:15. All are welcome to attend, but only active SoRSA Members are permitted to vote.
Please note that you do need to register for the AGM separately on the AGM Event webpage. The conference dinner will commence at 19:30 and will provide guests with the opportunity to network with friends, colleagues, and industry peers.
Day two of the conference will see speakers presenting on a number of key topics. Presentations will focus on three key themes: Research, Road User Behaviours and RSA Compliance.
At this year's conference both day one and day two will count towards your CPD. Please note that we do strongly encourage you to attend the entire conference and all sessions that are scheduled to take place to make the most of your attendance and get the best CPD available.
Ticket bookings have now closed, please be advised that bookings cannot be taken on the day.
If you have any questions about the SoRSA Conference and tickets, please do not hesitate to contact our team at regions@ciht.org.uk
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Tristan is a chartered transport planner with over 20-years experience. He became involved in Road Safety Audits in 2006, when the chance offer to spend 10 days out of the office at a training course was too good to turn down! He has undertaken numerous Road Safety Audits, Collision Investigation Studies , Risk Assessments, Transport Assessments and Travel Plans. He joined the SoRSA committee in 2020 and is the Welsh Representative.
Road safety auditors frequently identify situations where there may be a real or perceived risk, this workshop that looks at various scenarios and raises the question “Is this a problem” and encourages participants to voice their thoughts, experience and knowledge and discuss the examples with their peers. For each problem there should be a recommendation but are recommendations all the same? This is an interactive workshop where every opinion counts and not every item discussed has a right or wrong answer
Tristan will be joined by Linda Irons and Ian Medd.
Ian Medd has spent 37 years at Hampshire County Council, pursuing a career in road safety education and engineering. For the last 19 of those years, he was responsible for developing and managing the Road Safety Audit service. Following early retirement Ian continues to work with road safety consultancies on audits and safety engineering projects.
He is a visiting lecturer on Southampton Universities Transportation M.Sc. course. Ian is a founder member and former chair of SoRSA. Ian is a lifelong motorcyclist, and also helps with the family equestrian interests.
Matt is a Traffic Management and Road Safety Engineer working for North Yorkshire Council. He is currently the SoRSA representative for the Yorkshire and the Humber Region.
An engineer with over 30 years’ experience gained within the Local Authority and the private sector. Matt has varied experience in highways and transportation related fields including highway maintenance, highway design and construction, site supervision, scheme identification and evaluation, specialising in road safety engineering for the past 27 years.
Matt has carried out numerous road safety audits at all stages and on most types of roads, from unclassified to motorways and was one of the first 100 auditors to obtain the HA Certificate of Competency.
Claudia Di Loreto is a transport consultant and project manager at WSP, with 10 years of experience spanning across road safety, air quality auditing, urban realm improvements, mode shift, communication and stakeholder engagement. Claudia works as a road safety auditor and leads on collision analysis and Vision Zero projects.
Jon Noble is an Associate Director at WSP and is an experienced Road Safety Engineer with over 20 years combining road safety audit, accident investigation and prevention, traffic engineering, urban realm improvements, project management of large infrastructure delivery and data analysis and digital tool development.
Their talk will give an overview of Vision Zero and will present new tools which can be used to simplify the way we interrogate and analyse collision data, and identify and prioritise actions and clusters.
Many highway authorities are planning their strategies for 'Vision Zero'. This means that they are committing to reducing fatal and severe casualties on their roads to zero using an all-encompassing ‘Safe System' approach: safe streets; speeds; vehicles and behaviours; as well as post-collision response.
They have been working on several innovations to help our clients make efficient decisions both at a strategic level and at scheme selection, using data analytics to make choices that most reduce the number of killed and seriously injured (KSI) on our roads.
They will describe the processes that we went down to develop these innovations and share with you: the software we have utilised in developing these tools (Power BI, Excel and VBA); the advantages of using this approach; next steps and improvements.
Lorna has a background in Innovation Management in the automotive, mobility and other industry sectors. She specialises in understanding market needs and matching them with available and emerging technologies to bring new, value-added solutions to customers.
She has been working for automotive multinational Aisin for over 4 years in digital transformation, developing opportunities for connected technologies and safety systems, including Driver Monitoring Systems and Intelligent Speed Assist.
In the last 2 years, Lorna has led the creation and market development of Aisin’s RoadTrace™ range of solutions to bring the automotive and highways industries closer together. She is particularly passionate about raising awareness of ways in which new connected technologies may improve safety for road users.
Stemming from our automotive and geolocalisation heritage, our mission at Aisin Mobility is to enhance the understanding of how drivers collectively interact with the road infrastructure to help inform and test road safety initiatives.
Her talk will present a new approach made possible by the millions of connected vehicles on today’s roads. This approach aims to complement existing data sources by adding a risk-based element from analysing patterns in real driver behaviour, moving towards crash prediction and prevention.
Jwan is a senior road safety engineer at Jacobs. She is a Chartered Engineer with 19 years of experience in the area of highway, traffic and road safety engineering. Jwan is an active road safety auditor, undertaking audits across the national highways and local authority networks.
Jwan is currently a SoRSA committee member, in addition she has multiple volunteering roles within CIHT this includes CIHT East Midlands Vice Chair, mentor, reviewer and she is a member of Engineering Professional Review Panel.
Jwan in her PhD worked on “Analysing truck position data to study roundabout collision risk in the UK she has over 10 publications in the area of road safety. As part of her research Jwan participated and presented in a number of conferences for instance Transportation Research Board in Washington DC, Safer Road Conference in Cheltenham, UK, at University of Nottingham, at CIHT EMs annual conference, etc.
After her PhD Jwan has worked on various major projects for National Highways. Jwan as analysis lead was responsible for analysing STATS19 data and preparing road safety reports pertaining to the Strategic Road Network (SRN). She also worked on Suicide prevention strategy, and Economic Assessment of Schemes.
Jwan as a technical specialist lead in the area of “Data, Modelling and Collision Analysis” she has delivered detail collision analysis for many Schemes, created a guidance that is used within the practice by all road safety specialists. She also delivered road safety feasibility studies for National Highways, technical collision reports for various schemes, along with a number of safety risk assessments. She has also involved in various PCF products.
Jwan prior to her PhD has worked as a Highway Engineer and as a lecturer at the university. Where she has supervised students and delivered lectures related to Highway, Traffic and Statistical Engineering. She is competent in using multiple software packages, this includes GIS tools, database queries, MS Excel, MS Access, AVIS, SPSS, Power BI, Limdep, SATWIN, program coding for COBALT and TUBA.
Jwan will be talking about general prediction models available for road safety data: collisions and near-misses. She will be going through traditional prediction models that have been used for decades and illustrate why they are no longer valid and what could go wrong in case applying them in practice. This is then followed by up-to-date research on this topic, further, she will explain the reason behind the approach. Then Jwan will discuss some statistical tools and touch upon some programmes that could be used to undertake such models/approaches.
Jwan will finalise her talk with a case study which is undertaken as part of her PhD research. Briefly she will summarise the results of up-to-date collision prediction models undertaken on the UK roundabouts.
Bob’s father was a Roads Policing officer at Constable, Sgt and Insp Rank and he set up the Forensic Collision Investigation Unit in Gwent in 2000. He inspired Bob to join the Police and did so in 2003.
Bob went into the Roads Policing Unit in 2009 as a Patrol Officer before moving into the Forensic Collision Investigation Unit in 2014 and was subsequently promoted to Sgt in 2017 where he set up and lead a bespoke Serious Collision Investigation Unit responsible for investigating every Fatal and Complex Serious Injury Road Traffic Collision across the force. As a team they were nominated for the Police Federation Outstanding Contribution to Roads Policing Award in 2019 and have received numerous Chief Constables and Judges Commendations for various investigations they have been involved in. They are also the focus of the Welsh Bafta nominated BBC “Crash Detectives” programme.
Bob currently sits as the Senior Forensic Collision Investigator for Gwent Police and the Strategic lead for Forensic Collision Investigation across Gwent and South Wales following Collaboration in February 2022. They are currently working towards gaining UKAS accreditation to ISO 17020 by October 2026.
Richard is a Chartered Civil Engineer with a wide range of experience in transport planning and engineering, with a particular emphasis on road safety. His technical experience ranges from conceptual scheme design and public consultation to detailed design and civil engineering implementation. He has also written several technical standards and contributed to the development of transport policy. He spent the first fifteen years of his career in consultancy, developing a broad range of technical and project management experience across a wide variety of projects.
Following his career in consultancy, he has spent the last ten years working in Higher Education as a lecturer and researcher in transportation engineering, teaching transport modules to students both in Scotland and overseas. During this period he has also undertaken a variety of research projects in highway design, road safety and accessibility and has produced a number of published academic journal articles.
This presentation will describe a seven-year research project investigating the effect of active road studs on safe driving behaviour. Three case studies on the national strategic road network in South East Scotland were used to test the effects of the studs on drivers. The results of each case study answer questions about the effect of the studs on driver confidence, speed choice and lane discipline. The findings add to the evidence base on safety related road infrastructure and should provide effectiveness information to practitioners considering active road stud use as a road safety intervention.
John has over 40 years’ experience in road safety engineering and audit in UK and overseas. He has been a member of SoRSA committee fulfilling various roles since its inception in 2007. Recently he took over the role of Membership Secretary. Consequently, he has had the opportunity to review and discuss a wide range of audit reports submitted as part of the membership renewal process.
In addition, whilst chair of the society he assisted in developing the latest version of the CIHT Audit Guidelines that specifically recognised that not all audits are conducted in accordance with UK standard GG119, but nevertheless need to ensure that appropriate recommendations are made for designers and clients to undertaken their responsibilities.
This talk will be lead by Philippa and Corey, who are solicitors at HCC, Corey at HCC's Birmingham Office and Philippa a Partner at their Manchester Office. They represent seriously injured individuals in personal injury claims following serious road traffic collisions.
This presentation will follow a single case study that arises from poor layout and maintenance of a country road which is also a national cycle route. Their client is a cyclist hit by an oncoming car at a very unforgiving junction. It will go through the collision circumstances, how it could have been prevented etc then it will look at their rehab journey and how the claim has helped them and discuss compensation figures as well as legal costs on both sides to show the true ‘cost’ of these unsafe roads in monetary terms and the effects on life.
Paul is a Multi Award Winning Road Safety Chief and offers Best Practice Road & Fleet Driver Safety Interventions. He is a HRH Prince Michael Road Safety winner and a BRAKE Road Safety Award Winner in 2018 and 2019. He offers road safety talks and behavioural safety workshops along with his well-known Peak Performance Talks on many subjects.
Paul provides consultancy work for leading global organisations including; UK Dept. of Transport, DVSA, RoSPA, UK Police Forces, Cosworth, Daily Telegraph, FTA, Autovia, National Highways, DfBB, Mercedes-Benz, BCAA, Lotus Engineering, Roadsafe, Brigade, Volvo UK, BMW, Porsche, Audi, AMG, Hyundai South Korea, Rolls-Royce, Bentley, BMW, Chevrolet, VW, Nissan, Pirelli, Caterham, Toyota, Prodrive, Proton, Bridgestone Tyres, Webfleet, Altrad and many more.
His extensive qualifications and awards are significant and show his passion, commitment and sheer ability to deliver at the highest level: DVSA ADI, DIA Diploma Di, RoSPA ADA Gold, MDG Grade 1, RoSPA ADA Diploma, C&G 730 Teaching Diploma, HPC, MDG Diploma, IAM, DVSA Grade One Cardington Advanced Test, Mercedes Benz NATO Advanced Chauffeur Course (Malsheim), MDG Masters’ Degree (Human Factors), Performance Coaching Diploma (SJW), RCOL Diploma (Royal Logistics Corps).
HRH Prince Michael Road Safety Award
Brake - Best Fleet Safety Product Award 201
Brake - Most Innovative Fleet Safety Product 2019
Royal Logistics Corp - Royal Carmen of London Diploma
Business Car Techies Award
Webfleet Best Innovation Partner of the Year
This talk will look at improving safety on rural roads and why those who plan roads can do better. It will deal with hazards, how to improve visual scanning, why road signs (road furniture) are so important, introducing variable speed limits on stretches of road where crashes have occurred and working alongside the DVSA to improve novice driver training during driving lessons.
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