The Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is co-hosting an online panel discussion at 2 p.m., Tuesday, May 11, EDT, with the Institute of Transportation Engineers. Panelists will discuss the new report, “Recommendations of the Safe System Consortium,” from the Safe System Consortium, a group of road safety experts that includes engineers, public health professionals, and scientists. Registration is required. To register, click here The report will be available here at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, May 11.
Highway deaths in the U.S. increased 8 percent last year over the previous year even though people were driving considerably less, with an estimated 42,000 deaths in motor vehicle crashes and 4.8 million injuries. The Safe System approach to road safety—which may include the use of roundabouts, separated bike lanes, rumble strips, and other measures—has already been applied successfully in several other countries. In Sweden, where the approach was first implemented, road deaths fell by about 67 percent from 1990 to 2017. Safe Systems can also address road safety equity if measures are implemented in ways that close the safety gap between well-served and historically underserved communities.
Congressman Anthony Brown (MD-04), a member of the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, will make opening remarks. Mark Rosekind, PhD, the former administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and a Distinguished Policy Scholar in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School, will moderate the panel discussion. Full list of panelists below.
WHAT: “Recommendations of the Safe System Consortium” online panel discussion
WHEN: Tuesday, May 11, 2021, 2–3 p.m., EDT
WHERE: Zoom Webinar. To register, click here.
WHO:
Opening Remarks: Congressman Anthony Brown (MD-04), member, U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Moderator: Mark Rosekind, PhD, former administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Distinguished Policy Scholar in the Bloomberg School’s Department of Health Policy and Management
Panelists:
Meghan Mitman, AICP, chair, Institute of Transportation Engineers Safety Council
Jamila Porter, DrPH, director, Resilient Communities, Big Cities Health Coalition
Robert Wunderlich, PE, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
EVENT HASHTAG: #safesystem
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Disclosure: Mark Rosekind continues to serve as the Chief Safety Innovation Officer at Zoox, an autonomous vehicle and on-demand transportation service start-up company.
The Safe System Consortium report was supported by the FIA Foundation.
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