Third Meeting of the Ontario Road Safety Forum

Third Meeting of the Ontario Road Safety Forum

March 6, 2018, 9:00 a.m.to 4:00p.m.

University of Toronto, Galbraith Building, 2nd floor,Room GB 202(

Agenda*

8:30-9:00Registration -- $30 cash fee, payable on site

9:00Words ofWelcome and Wisdom: Ezra Hauer, Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil Engineering,University of Toronto

9:05-9:15Introductions

9:15-12:15Morning Theme:Matters of Size – From Child Safety to Truck Safety

9:15–10:30: Presentations and Discussion:Built Environment and Child Road Safety --Perspectives from the Medical Profession Injury Prevention Research

Research designs used, with examples of results.Andrew Howard, Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon and Senior Scientist, Hospital for Sick Children

Interventions in school zones -- what to do and how to test them.Linda Rothman,Senior Research Associate, Program in Child Health Evaluative Science,Hospital for Sick Children

10:30-10:50Break–Refreshments will be provided

10:50-12:15: Presentations and Discussion: Truck SafetyImprovements –What’s Happening

A Question of Size –Involvement of large trucks in road crashes. Steve Brown, Research Associate, Data Collection, Traffic Injury Research Foundation

Truck Safety in Ontario: Past, Present, and Future.Sarah Plonka, Senior Safety Research Advisor, MTO; Josh Hanna, Senior Safety Research Advisor.

Transport Canada Initiatives: Trucks and Vulnerable Road Users – Improving safety with sensor technology; Guidelines for limiting distraction from video displays.Peter Burns, Chief, Human Factors and Crash Avoidance, Motor Vehicle Safety Directorate

12:15 – 13:15Lunch Break: Lunch will be brought in and is covered by the $30 registration fee.

13:15–15:45Afternoon Theme:Connecting Road Safety Research to Practice, and Vice Versa

13:15 – 14:15: Part 1: Showcasing Graduate Student Research. 5-minute presentations on research at Universities of Toronto and Waterloo, York University and Ryerson University

14:15– 14:30 Break – Liquid refreshments will be provided

14:30 – 15:15: Part 2: Safety Research/Knowledge Needs at The Municipal Level.BobHenderson, Manager, Transportation Engineering, Region of Waterloo, et al.

15:15 – 15:45: Discussion – Connecting practice to research.

15:45 – 16:00Today's Lessons Learned. Bhagwant Persaud

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