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Buses, Brakes, and Bingo: Road Safety for the Golden Age

Abstract

On the whole, the UK road transport system is generally considered to provide a safe means of mobility. However, each year, around 1,800 UK citizens are killed and several thousand more are injured whilst travelling on the roads either as passenger car occupants, pedestrians, cyclists, or public transport users. The older generation are particularly challenged when using the transport system on several dimensions, notably due to gradually reduced cognitive and physiological decline and general frailty. In this presentation, we will look at the importance of older people maintaining personal mobility in the interests of social inclusivity and we will look at how transport policies, design interventions and engineering solutions can counter the effects of ageing to keep people moving. We will present a range of research outcomes that have ensured that older people are not disadvantaged when travelling on the roads.

Presentation

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Speaker Bio

Andrew Morris is a Professor of Human Factors in Transport Safety and is the Director of the Transport Safety Research Centre at Loughborough University, UK. Andrew has over 35 years of experience in research into transport safety, vehicle safety, crash investigation, crash-injury and driver behaviour research and has published over 300 refereed technical publications, reports and conference papers on the subject of transport safety, crash research, injury prevention and driver behaviour.

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Dr. Jo Barnes is a Reader in Traffic Injury Prevention and has over 20-years’ experience working in this area in the UK and Australia. Her research focuses on road users to explicitly understand who and why people are injured in crashes, what the consequences of injury are to people’s health and identify how injuries can be prevented.

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