Webinars

TransLink, in partnership with the B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MoTI), recently retained Urban Systems to create the Design Guide for Bus Stops Adjacent to Cycling Infrastructure to provide province-wide guidance to develop “island platform bus stops” or “floating bus stops” in British Columbia.

Provide insight, using contemporary thinking about disability, into current limitations and possibilities with bikeway design.

Educate partner Road Safety Professionals regarding police enforcement laws, technology, and innovative techniques related to car meets, street racing, concerning driving behaviours, and modified vehicles.

The webinar will commence with an overview of Mandatory Alcohol Screening (MAS), including its rationale, purpose, and operation…

This webinar will present the results of a study attempting to compare the number of police-reported collisions with emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalisations in Toronto, Canada.

This webinar provides insights from one-on-one interviews conducted with Ontario police leaders (i.e. police chiefs and sergeants) who work in traffic enforcement.

This webinar introduces CapaCITY/É, a six year research program working with municipal staff and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) across Canada and Australia to understand factors related to the scaling up and scaling out of sustainable transportation projects across different city contexts.

In this webinar, we will explore Ottawa’s Motorcycle Safety Strategy, prepared to enhance motorcycle safety as part of their 2020-2024 Road Safety Action Plan.

Les constructeurs automobiles déploient diverses technologies de sécurité actives et passives afin d’améliorer la sécurité des conducteurs.

Automakers are deploying various active and passive safety technologies to improve driver safety.

Road safety issues in Canada continues to generate public and media interest. In view of this interest and in recognition of various initiatives including the end of the United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020 and the ongoing Road Safety Strategy 2025, Transport Canada published a report with the goal of showing the progress Canada has made in reducing road fatalities and injuries from 2011 to 2020.

Presented by Parachute and CARSP, this free webinar builds upon the previous webinar and provide an update on the Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030, along with tools coming out of the eighth global meeting of NGOs advocating for road safety and road victims that took place March 6 to 10, 2023 in El Salvador. We also shared turnkey social media messages and printable creative tools for all road safety partners to use for the upcoming UN Global Road Safety Week, running May 15 to 21, 2023, which calls on policy makers to #RethinkMobility to make walking, cycling and public transport safe and convenient so that people can make the shift to active, sustainable mobility.

Many Canadian municipalities are establishing policies to confront inequities persisting from historical approaches to community and city planning. At the same time, governments are continuing to invest in building transportation systems that aim to be safer and more sustainable in the face of climate change and other mobility challenges. What can be learned from the evolution of equity policies in Canadian municipalities to date, and how can equity principles be applied on the ground to ensure that our road safety efforts benefit those who need them most?

The legal framework for recreational and medical cannabis has shifted in the last decade in many countries around the world, and still others are considering making this move. This trend has brought more urgency to the issue of cannabis-impaired driving. The science surrounding this issue is complex and studies are not easily compared nor interpreted.

This webinar will provide an introduction and a very brief review of international findings on motor vehicle casualties (MVCs). It will also discuss the time series of Ontario MVCs by age group, severity, and type of collision from 2010-2022, focusing on COVID pandemic lockdowns that occurred in 2020-2022.

Shawna will be presenting recommendations for national indicators to better measure the prevalence, impact, and reduction of drug-impaired driving (DID). The indicators are based on recommendations from experts in DID across Canada and a DID Advisory Committee.

This presentation will follow the elements of the design process from data gathering to planning, traffic engineering to enforcement, and detail specific measures and actions that each stakeholder can implement to transform Vision Zero policies into results.

CARSP Invites all road safety professionals to learn more about our association! This fun, interactive virtual event is geared to both current members and those considering membership. If you are already a member, see what new things we are offering.

Steve Reed and Jim Sanderson will present the genesis of the idea for Biker Down in the UK and how it progressed to become a national safety program adopted by UK Fire and Rescue, UK police and more.

This webinar will cover three learning objectives. First, it will review information that is both recorded and communicated wirelessly on modern vehicles. Second, the webinar will review the ownership of this information, how this information is accessed, who can access it and how it can be deleted. Third, this webinar will review the utility of this information, how it can be used to reconstruct event circumstances and the importance of doing so.

The presentation will include the purpose of road safety network screening and why it is important to the follow-up city-wide in-service safety review study. Based on various completed studies and research materials, the different ways to complete the network screening study (development of decision tree, identification of selection criteria, and presentation of the study outcomes) will also be discussed.

The webinar will share information about new educational tools and initiatives in Canada. It will highlight the importance of public engagement regarding automated vehicle technology and discuss educational approaches to raise the level of public understanding of AVs in Canada. It will also share free educational resources with participants.

In 2020, the European Commission published recommendations from an expert group (of which I was a member) on the ethics of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs). One of the recommendations considered whether and how CAVs should be allowed to break the rules of the roads in the interests of safety. Further work explored expectations around the behaviour of CAVs in relation to rule compliance and how to resolve the challenge of enabling CAVs to show discretion in the way human drivers (sometimes) do. My presentation describes this work setting up discussion on how regulators should engage with CAV developers to optimise CAV behaviour.

Density growth in existing and new communities has created a need to re-evaluate the traditional school design toward one that can accommodate various modes of mobility to enhance safety.

The Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030 has been proclaimed by a UN General Assembly Resolution with a target to reduce road traffic deaths and injuries by 50 per cent by 2030, recognizing the gravity of this global issue.

The Decade of Action is underpinned by the Global Plan, launched Oct. 28, 2021, which aims to inspire and guide national and local government, as well other stakeholders who can influence road safety. Those include civil society, academia, the private sector, donors, community and youth leaders, and other stakeholders as they develop supporting national and local action plans and targets. Through advocating for the Safe System Approach and providing recommendations based on best practices and research, the plan is an important resource both within Canada and abroad.

The webinar will provide an overview of the Global Plan, including three parts of road safety action: what to do, how to do it and who does it. Panelists will also discuss how road safety needs to be integrated into other policy agendas such as climate action and equity, to increase its reach and influence. The webinar will also refer to Canada’s Road Safety Strategy 2025.

Moderator: 
Brenda Suggett, Executive Director, CARSP

Panel:
Raheem Dilgir, President, CARSP
Valerie Smith, Director, Programs, Parachute

In 2018, motor vehicle injuries stole the lives of 17,475 Canadians, including 1,759 transport-related deaths, according to Parachute’s “The Cost of Injury in Canada 2021” report. Parachute staff will speak to the report and how it can influence the work we are collectively doing on road safety. Additionally, Parachute will provide an overview of the work being done across the country on Vision Zero highlighting specific municipalities experiences with a focus on challenges and opportunities.

In this webinar, Matts-Åke Belin will discuss the evolution and philosophy of Vision Zero, the innovative road safety policy first established in Sweden. He will also discuss some of the most successful components of Vision Zero, including 2+1 roads while also discussing the challenges and future direction of Vision Zero.