Breakfast event: Traffic safety footprint – what have we learnt so far?
Welcome to our breakfast event September 8 to hear from our SAFER Think Tank, which has been committed to look deeper into how to accelerate implementation of this concept on a broader basis, and how the SAFER collaboration platform can support.
The Think Tank has identified relevant research questions and how to address the challenges connected to reach the full potential of using traffic safety footprint to visualize, follow up and improve traffic safety numbers. The Think Tank has also looked into defining a framework to approach and identify organisations’ traffic safety footprint as well as initiated several projects. At the seminar you will get to know about the main findings, thoughts and spin-off projects.
At the event you will also meet Sanna Eveby. She has been the project leader for the FIA Road Safety Index, and she will give us update about the development of the index and how it can be used to drive change towards a more systematic way of working with traffic safety.
The SAFER Think Tank for traffic safety footprint currently includes partners from Autoliv, VTI, Volvo Group, the Swedish Transport Administration and Folksam.
You can either join the event physically at SAFER at Lindholmen Science Park in Gothenburg or online via Teams. Please register for the event prior to Sep 5 here. Welcome!
Event agenda
Breakfast with networking opportunities from 08:00
08:30-09:00 Main conclusions from the SAFER Traffic safety footprint Think Tank
09:00-09:20 Sanna Eveby presents an update about the FIA Road Safety Index
09:20-09:50 Discussion about traffic safety footprint as a tool to reduce fatalities on the roads
More information about traffic safety footprint - a new way of managing road safety
At the third UN Conference on road safety in Stockholm in 2020, the international community was mature to bring traffic safety into a sustainability context. Road safety is one of the global sustainable development goals - target 3.6 “By 2030, halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents”. Sustainability and road safety needs to go hand in hand to achieve this bold target. The outcome from the conference was the Stockholm Declaration, later endorsed by the UN General Assembly by a resolution on Improving Global Road Safety (A/RES/74/299).
One of the main recommendations from the UN conference was to include traffic safety into organisations’ corporate responsibility agenda; i.e. as organisations report their climate impact, work related accidents or emissions. By doing so, measuring and follow up the traffic safety impact by organisation’s products and services throughout their value chains are a core activity. This way of approaching safety will also mean that the responsibility for safe traffic is transferred from the individual road user to an organisation, which in turn can lead to better possibilities to setting targets, systematic measurements, follow-up and implementation of effective measures and actions – and long term improve safety in the mobility system.
