Road Safety Foundation using tech to improve road safety
The Road Safety Foundation received nearly £200k funding from The Road Safety Trust to provide stakeholders in the West Midlands with access to speed data to help reduce road collisions in the region.
The Road Safety Trust, dedicated to achieving zero deaths and serious injuries on UK roads, funded over £1million to eight organisations across the UK for technology-focussed road safety projects.
The Road Safety Foundation, working in partnership with tech company The Floow, will make detailed telematics speed data available to stakeholders such as community speed watch, parish councils, road authorities, police, and researchers in the West Midlands. Operating procedures and guidance notes for how the data could be used will be developed and shared, and then support with implementation will be provided to stakeholders, for example in enforcement strategy and route reviews including aiding the placement of curve speed warning systems.
Dr Suzy Charman, Executive Director at Road Safety Foundation said:
“We are really excited about this project, having seen the huge value that high-granularity speed data has brought to our own work undertaking road assessments for local authorities. Being able to make the data available to a wide set of road safety stakeholders will help them to base their decision making on high quality data, and it will allow us to understand the full possibilities for using the data across road safety management, enforcement, engineering, and education.”
Sally Lines, Chief Executive of The Road Safety Trust said:
“We really welcome the project from the Road Safety Foundation as it has a clear link to how technology can be used to improve road safety and in turn help us work towards our vision of zero deaths and serious injuries on UK roads.
“Using the evidence from telematics speed data will help informed decision-making and communication between key stakeholders in the West Midlands. We expect that new policies designed to improve road safety can be developed and implemented thanks to this project and through this process of using data to help engagement, initially in the West Midlands and ultimately throughout the UK.”
