Large projects
Here’s a portfolio giving details of the projects who have received funding from us in our large grants programme.
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National Fire Chiefs Council (R&D)
Extrication in trauma (EXIT Project)
This research will determine the effect of extrication techniques applied to casualties following road traffic collisions.
Swansea University
1) Capturing best information from witnesses to serious road traffic collisions 2) Digitising the Self-Administered Interview for Road Traffic Collisions (SAI-RTC)
The aim of phase 1 was to increase road safety for all road users by increasing the efficiency and successful prosecution rate of investigations into serious road traffic collisions. Phase 2 will develop and pilot a digitised SAI-RTC
University College London (UCL)
Understanding near miss reporting to develop a lead indicator for cycling safety and a tool for evaluating interventions
The project will develop a reporting sensor with synchronised video data which will provide information about the location, traffic and nature of near-miss incidents for cyclists.
University College London (UCL)
The management of occupational road risk: emerging issues for policy and practice in a changing economy - a survey of grey fleet and gig economy drivers, riders and their managers
This study explored the experience of risk and risk management amongst drivers and riders and their managers who work as part of the 'gig' economy.
Keele University
Innovators and innovations in preventing mobile phone use while driving: sharing and improving practice
The project aimed to gather, review and promote work in the area of mobile phone use while driving, and to provide opportunities for practitioners to work with academic experts in the field to design and evaluate activities that have the best chance of delivering road safety benefits.
University of Leicester
Promoting safety for vulnerable road users: assessing the investigation and enforcement of endangerment offences
This project carried out research into road safety endangerment offences, such as careless driving or dangerous driving, and how they are policed and prosecuted.
Urban Vision
Road safety mobility scooter training
The project aimed to reduce road traffic collisions involving mobility scooter users. By increasing skills, the project aimed to reduce accidents and near misses.
University of the West of England (UWE)
The impacts of centre line removal or non-reinstatement on 20mph and 30mph speed limit roads as a contribution to cycle user safety
This project assessed the evidence for the effectiveness of centre line removal (CLR) as a measure to improve safety for cyclists.
Wirral Council
Mind your business, road safety at work
This project builds on and develops a successful project aimed at local companies with fleet vehicles, including grey fleet in Wirral.
Cardiff University
Developing a road crossing educational computer 'game' for primary schools
Funding of £67,468 was awarded for a project to design and develop an evidence-based, educational computer game (using a first-person perspective) to teach children how to cross the road safely.
Designability
FLOURISH - design requirements to enable use of connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) by older people with a disability
The project looked at design issues of Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) and how technology can be developed to benefit people with a range of age related impairments.
Nottingham Trent University
Assessing the potential of driver awareness and emotional regulation training in improving road safety
Funding was awarded to Nottingham Trent University to research and develop a novel training intervention designed to improve driver safety.
Nottingham Trent University
Mobility scooter user behaviour and hazard perception at road crossings
The project explored what Motorised Mobility Scooter (MMS) users see as hazards and then, by recording real time footage, assessed the strategies used by expert users to avoid hazards when crossing roads.
PACTS (Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety)
Reducing suicides on the UK roads, providing a baseline
A project by PACTS that raised awareness of roads related suicide and sought influence through changes to recording, reporting and management.
Transport Research Laboratory
Development and trial a community-led intervention to improve residential road safety - ‘Community Corners’
This project trialled and tested an intervention using light touch engineering measures such as street furniture and road markings.
University College London (UCL)
Identifying and evaluating promising road safety education programmes for parents of children under eleven years
This three-year project aimed to strengthen the evidence base of effective road safety programmes for parents of children under eleven years by identifying three promising programmes that are currently being used in local areas of the UK.
University of the West of England (UWE)
Wheels skills and thrills 2 (WST2)
This project further developed an intervention to encourage safer driving by young men, particularly from less affluent backgrounds. It was based on an early trial part funded by the DfT.
Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust
Targeting road injury prevention
Funding of £100,000 was awarded to Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust to work with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Road Safety Partnership, in order to look in detail at crashes that cause severe injury and death, in particular examining the types of drivers that are involved in these crashes.
PACTS (Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety)
Seizing the opportunities
A research project to provide support to the road safety community on the opportunities presented in the Government’.
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