Project Description
Webinar panel discussion, broadcast live: Wednesday 26th February 2025
Hosted by Simon Turner, Engagement Manager for the National Highways Driving for Better Business programme, and Chairman of ARRM, this special webinar is being delivered in partnership with RoadSafe.
The Safe System Knowledge Exchange provides a gateway to learning for road safety professionals, helping to develop a much more detailed understanding of the culture, principles and practice that make up Safe System delivery. This webinar offers an opportunity to hear from those at the very heart of the project, and to ask questions on any element of the Safe System.
The presenters, Adrian Walsh, Executive Director of RoadSafe, and Professor Nick Reed, will focus on what the Safe System is and what technology is required to deliver it. A short introductory presentation will be followed by a comprehensive Q&A session in which attendees will be able to quiz the presenters on any aspect of the Safe System to help their understanding on this vital framework for delivering road safety improvements
Presenters:
Adrian Walsh: Executive Director of RoadSafe
Adrian Walsh is the executive director RoadSafe. He is well known amongst road safety professionals as the organiser of The Prince Michael International Road Safety Awards which he runs on The Prince’s behalf together with his wife Judy and colleagues in Agilysis. An Army officer for some thirty years provided a lifetime interest in people and mobility, he has worked in many countries in all continents. After retiring from the army in 1995 he became a financial services regulator and then as a consultant established The UK Engineering and Technology Board. His interest in road safety developed while he was with The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. Together with three former transport ministers, and with support from the automobile industry he established RoadSafe in 2002 to bring together the private sector with government to support and develop partnerships to promote the safe system, share knowledge, encourage innovation and recognise achievement. RoadSafe was a founding member of the UN Road Safety Collaboration where Adrian was co-chair of the Road Safety Management Working Group and chair of the Driving for Work Working Group, responsible for developing the plan for the two Decades of Action. He was the original Road Safety Champion of the Global Transport Knowledge Partnership (gTKP), a UK Aid initiative. He also chaired the UK Road Safety Observatory Programme Board and led in the establishment of Driving for Better Business – which RoadSafe now runs in partnership with National Highways.
Professor Nick Reed: Founder of Reed Mobility
Dr Nick Reed has spent more than 20 years at the sharp end of transportation research. Widely published in the fields of psychology, human factors, road safety and connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) and having presented on such topics at conferences worldwide, Nick is recognised as being a leader in future mobility and has been instrumental in CAV projects totalling more than £50m. A chartered scientist and psychologist (MA, University of Cambridge; DPhil., University of Oxford), Nick brings a fresh perspective and robust approach to transport projects, working dynamically at the intersection between psychology, technology, society and the environment. He served as an international expert on a panel convened by the European Commission to determine the best approach for CAV ethics. Equally comfortable operating across the public, private and academic sectors, Nick is inventive, collaborative, rigorous and thoughtful, delivering innovative research, development, guidance, evaluation and assessment to the highest standard in the transport sector.
