SPEED is the acclaimed biennial congress for road safety practitioners working to slow down traffic and save lives, regularly attracting more than 200 delegates.

The conference brings together world experts from academia and practitioners to discuss -

• Latest research into effectiveness of speed management measures, including ISA
• International policies to reduce speed limits
• Successful road engineering measures to control speed and protect communities
• Speed enforcement developments
• Best practice speed-awareness education

SPEED - why go?

1. This isn’t a high-cost, profit-making event. It is a reasonably-priced event coordinated by Brake the road safety charity - any profit goes to the charity to help us campaign to stop road deaths and injuries and support road crash victims. Yet the quality is just as good as at events priced three times as high. If you are travelling to the event from outside the UK it represents even better value than usual due to the currently very weak pound.

2. The programme is compiled by a team of road safety experts within Brake in consultation with academics and practitioners. You can expect the highest standard of speeches on the most cutting edge topics.

3. The venue is central and easily accessible by public transport - there is no need to drive. Brake is committed to use of public transport to its events.

4. Speed remains the single most important road safety issue. The slower we drive, the more time we have to react, the less chance we have of hitting, and the lesser the injury if we do. Yet there remains surprising resistance from conservative bodies in favour of the liberties of motorists at the expense of lives. This remains the hottest and most important of topics.

5. Speed management is leaping forwards in terms of technological developments and political understanding - from ISA to far more emphasis worldwide in the developed world on very slow speeds in communities, and is becoming an acute problem in the developing world as traffic increases without enough separate provision of facilities for vulnerable road users.

6. It’s a one day event packed with the best speakers to be time-efficient for busy professionals with their own heavy workloads. Because we run the congress as a one day event, you are not tied to expensive accommodation overnight. However, if you do want to stay at the Royal College of Surgeons the night before the event or the night of the event, you can at a very reasonable rate. Go back to the main page of SPEED for more info.
    

For more details or if you are interested in attending the event, please contact the organiser or visit the host website.

Website - www.brake.org.uk

Telephone - 01484 559909