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Themes and topics


Main themes of the conference are:

  • Exchange of new findings on road safety
  • Transfer of road safety knowledge
  • Exchange of evaluated good practises

The Conference will cover the following topics:

  1. Road safety plans and strategies
  2. Safety management techniques including speed management
  3. Crash recording systems, policy information systems and black spot analyses and evaluation
  4. Road user education, driver license, special road user groups: young, old, vulnerable
  5. Vehicle innovations and ITS applications
  6. Traffic engineering innovations including road design and behavioural issues
  7. Distraction, fatigue, alcohol and drugs related adverse effects on driving
  8. Economic and financial issues, cost benefit and evaluation
  9. Enforcement techniques, traffic laws and self enforcing designs
  10. Urban safety, traffic calming, and slow traffic
  11. Interurban and rural safety, intersections, incident management
  12. Preventive safety measures, audits, safety inspections
  13. Modelling and evaluation techniques
  14. Work-related road safety, fleet safety
  15. Other related subjects: Health issues, awareness raising , campaigns

Who should attend?
The conference topics and themes should attract the international research community, national safety experts, decision makers, road safety engineers and planners, traffic law enforcement officials and many others with an interest in road safety development.


Changed date 2009-04-07

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