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
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