Edition 58, July 2008

International conference to focus on high risk road users (Brisbane)

An international conference aiming to inform debate and promote further action to influence the behaviour of high risk road users to reduce their involvement in road crashes with will be held in Brisbane on 18-19 September 2008.

The 2008 National Conference - High Risk Road Users: Motivating behaviour change: what works and what doesn't work? is being hosted by the Australasian College of Road Safety and the Travelsafe Committee of the Queensland Parliament.

Keynote speakers at the event include:

  • Associate Professor Raymond Bingham from the University of Michigan
  • Professor Mary Sheehan AO, Director of the Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety - Queensland (CARRS-Q)
  • Associate Professor Rebecca Ivers, Director of the Injury Division of the George Institute for International Health in Sydney.

The conference program will provide networking opportunities with leading researchers and practitioners on a range of contemporary road safety issues including speeding, drink and drug driving, young drivers and driver education.

The conference will offer parallel sessions with papers presented by both practitioners and researchers. Session themes will include:

  • behaviour change strategies
  • school and community-based approaches
  • speeding and impaired driving countermeasures
  • penalties and sanctions
  • research methods and prevalence studies.

For more information visit www.acrs.org.au/activitiesevents

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