How safe? Foundations for the future

Venue and date: International Convention Centre, Birmingham

11 September 1996
Published: September 1997

To mark its tenth anniversary, the AA Foundation held a one-day international conference in Birmingham coinciding with the 1996 Forum of European Road Safety Institutes' conference.

Entitled How safe? Foundations for the Future the conference included presentations by eminent road safety experts and offered delegates an opportunity to participate in a debate on the AA Foundation's record and future strategy. This debate was conducted in the broader context of world-wide efforts to enhance road safety, perhaps by directly influencing road-user behaviour or by making changes to education, legislation and enforcement as well as to the highway infrastructure.

Keynote speech

John Watts MP
Minister of State for Railways and Roads, Department of Transport UK

The first ten years

Barbara Sabey ISO
Technical Advisor for AA Foundation for Road Safety Research

The value of the AA Foundation's research: an assessment

Phil Goodwin MA PhD
Professor of Transport Policy,University College London

Research for improved road safety

Kre Rumar MME
Swedish National Road Administration

How road user behaviour can help people use the roads more safely

Frank McKenna BSc PhD
Psychology Department, University of Reading

How road infrastructure can help people use the roads more safely

Richard Allsop MA PhD DSc
Professor of Transport Studies

Meeting the needs of practitioners

David Lynam BSc
Programme Director Vehicles and Safety, Transport Research Laboratory UK

Panel discussion with audience participation.

Mike Kendrick OBE
Director of Planning and Transportation, Northamptonshire County Council

Howard Sherriff FRCS
Consultant Accident and Emergency, Addenbrooke's NHS Trust Cambridge

Keith Willett FRCS
Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford

David Williams QPM LLB Barrister
Chief Constable of Surrey

Margaret Morrissey OBE
Public Relations Officer, National Confederation of Parent Teacher Associations

Foundations for the future - the AA Foundation's role in a global context

John Dawson
AA Group Public Affairs Director

Vote of thanks

Andrew Clayton
Executive Director, British Institute of Traffic Education Research

Concluding remarks

Kenneth Faircloth OBE
Chairman AA Foundation