Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference 2012
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1/05/2012 12:33 p.m.
The 2012 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference will be held in Wellington from 4–6 October, following the Safety 2012 World Conference (1–4 October).
This page provides information on the conference as it becomes available. Please revisit regularly.
Call for Abstracts
The Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference 2012 will be held in Wellington, New Zealand, from Thursday 4 October to Saturday 6 October. We are pleased to invite you to submit an abstract to be considered for oral and poster presentation at the conference.
The conference will bring together leading professionals from New Zealand and Australia. We are also joining with the annual conference of the New Zealand Local Authority Traffic Institute (or TRAFINZ). TRAFINZ represents local authority views on road safety and traffic management in New Zealand.
The first day of the conference will overlap that of the 2012 World Safety Conference and some sessions will be shared. You are encouraged to visit the World Safety Conference website and consider attending other days of that event. This is a great opportunity to hear from and mingle with the world’s leading injury prevention and safety researchers, practitioners, policy makers and advocates.
http://www.conference.co.nz/worldsafety2012
This year, the theme of our conference is “Reducing the Cost of Road Safety”. We want to reflect the four pillars of the Safe System approach to road safety, as espoused in New Zealand’s ten-year strategy Safer Journeys:
- safe roads and roadsides
- safe vehicles
- safe users
- safe speeds
and we are particularly looking for papers which address subjects such as:
- Cost-effectiveness
- Implementation of research findings
- A safe system approach
- Innovation, trying new things
- Relevance to Pacific Island nations
- The role of local government and community
- High risk drivers
- Crash prevention
- The economics of fleet safety
Abstracts should be no more than 300 words.
Please send your abstracts to rsc2012@transport.govt.nz
Important dates:
15 April 2012 Call for abstracts closes
7 May 2012 Acceptance notification from this date
15 June 2012 Research papers requiring peer review due
15 August 2012 Notification of paper status
Abstracts closed on 15 April 2012. Late abstracts received by 30 April 2012 will still be considered.
About the conference
New Zealand is hosting the 2012 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference.
The Ministry of Transport, together with the NZ Transport Agency and the NZ Police, is holding this three-day conference immediately after the Safety 2012 World Conference to make the most of the world safety experts already gathered. This will give delegates the opportunity to attend the Safety 2012 World Conference, or part of it, if they wish.
Visit the Safety 2012 World Conference website for more details.
The 2012 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference will:
- present current research and best practice in road safety, particularly in those areas identified as national road safety priorities, directions and trends
- provide a venue for discussion of advances in road safety research and practice including in education, enforcement, engineering and the road environment
- showcase innovation, progress and new directions in road safety policy, planning, research, practice and evaluation
- bring together road safety stakeholders and decision-makers from Australia, New Zealand and the world to facilitate collaboration and information sharing
Further information and contacts
For information and registrations to the 2012 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, and for abstracts please email rsc2012@transport.govt.nz.