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Agenda

 
DAY ONE: Monday 7th December 2009
| Day One | Day Two |
8.10
Registration and welcome tea
8.40

Speed networking session

Get to know your peers right from the start in this informal speed networking session. Bring along your business cards!

9.00
Opening remarks from the Chair
 
9.05

KEYNOTE SESSION

Rising to the challenges of road safety

  • Investment to date on safety improvements on country and city roads
  • State road budgets: Road priorities of the Victorian Transport Plan
The Hon Tim Pallas MP, Minister for Roads and Ports, Victoria
9.45

KEYNOTE SESSION

The road ahead: Global status report on road safety and the Australian connection

  • Promoting and implementing road safety resolutions across international agencies and road safety coordinators
Rob Klein, Regional Programme Director, Asia, Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP)
10.25
Morning tea
10.50

Safety ratings for roads across Australia Recommendations of the Australian Road Assessment Program (AusRAP)

Mike Harris, Executive Director, Australian Automobile Association (AAA)
11.25

Road Safety 2020: Research, education and implementation

Professor Raphael Grzebieta, Chair of Road Safety, NSW Injury Risk Management Research Centre
12.00
Improving safety through engineering solutions: Austroads road safety engineering risk assessment project
  • Safe System Infrastructure - National Roundtable Report
Blair Turner, Principal Research Scientist, Safe Systems Group, ARRB Group
12.35

Lunch and networking break

 

STATE BY STATE PANEL

Road safety and system management policy update Coordination and community based education campaigns are core to road safety education, engineering and enforcement efforts across the nation. Hear how each state is addressing safety management systems to improve road safety. Specific state presentations will be followed by a general Q&A session.

1.30

Towards Zero: Getting there together on road safety strategy

Iain Cameron, Executive Director, Office of Road Safety, Main Roads WA
1.55

An integrated approach to road safety

Dr Soames Job, Director, NSW Centre for Road Safety, Roads and Traffic Authority, NSW
2.20
Improving capability in road safety and network management
George Mavroyeni, Executive Director, Road Safety & Network Access, VicRoads
2.45
Road safety targets for 2010 and beyond
Martin Small, Director, Road Safety, Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure, South Australia
3.10
Q&A Session
3.30

Afternoon tea and networking break

4.00
Driving regional solutions: Community involvement and the safety of local roads
  • Prioritising local roads in infrastructure investment According to the Institute of Public Works Engineering Australia, local roads comprise 85% of Australia’s total road network and have an estimated value of about $75 billion.
John Hennessy, Sector Development Consultant, Municipal Association of Victoria
4.35
Shared safety issues
  • Pedestrian safety: Shared zones, crossing refuges and roundabouts
  • Alerting pedestrians to the rules, regulations and dangers in crossing the road illegally
  • Impact of school zone penalties
  • Assessing the effectiveness of road user awareness campaigns and safety standards
Harold Scruby, Chairman and CEO, Pedestrian Council of Australia
5.10
Close of day one
 
DAY TWO: Tuesday 8th December 2009
| Day One | Day Two |
9.00
Opening remarks from the Chair
9.10

Updates on new national safety standards and guidelines

  • National productivity reforms for heavy vehicles
  • Benefits of Performance Based Standards (PBS)
  • NTC's review of PBS and the way forward
George Konstandakos, Senior Manager Productivity & Technology, National Transport Commission (NTC)
9.45
Safer roads, safer trucks, safer drivers and safer companies
  • Safety, risk and good business: Benefits of cooperation between governments, trucking operators and drivers
Stuart St Clair, CEO, Australian Trucking Association (ATA)
10.20
Morning tea and networking break
10.50
Heavy vehicle safety driven productivity improvement:
A path to fewer fatalities
  • Overview of heavy vehicle fatalities and costs to the economy
  • Regulatory trends to reducing fatigue and speed fatalities
  • Electronic Work Diary (EWD) Trials: Outcomes and lessons learned
  • Business case for EWD and speed technology implementation
John Tsoucalas, CEO, Fleet Effect
11.25
Future directions of Australian intelligent transport systems
  • Update on technologies for enabling a better and safer use of roads
Terry Warin, Executive Director, ITS Australia
12.00

The application of technologies for increasing road
safety

  • Case Study: Eastlink
Peter Bentley, Chief Operating Officer, ConnectEast Group
12.35
Lunch and networking break
INDUSTRY CASE STUDIES
1.30
A road operators perspective: Working towards Vision Zero
  • What does it takes to manage compliance?
  • Compliance management of a company like Linfox
  • Measuring overall compliance?
  • Safety / Compliance Initiatives
Shane Falkiner, Compliance Manager - Asia Pacific, Linfox
2.05
Innovations in vehicle safety
  • Case Study: GM Holden's five-phase approach to road safety
Mike Hammer, Vehicle Regulations Manager, GM Holden
2.40
Putting the 'system' into safe systems: Using human factors research to operationalise the safe system philosophy
Dr Michael Lenn, Human Factors Group Leader, Monash University Accident Research Centre
3.15
Afternoon tea and networking break
3.45

The role of smarter policing and active enforcement

  • Police priorities in developing and implementing effective strategic enforcement capability
  • Policing illegal driving and unroadworthy vehicles
Superintendent Kevin Casey, State Traffic Advisor, Victoria Police
4.20

Interface between road safety and the environment

Dr Mark Symmons, Lecturer in Cognitive Science, Monash University Accident Research Centre
4.55
Close of Summit
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