Dear Friends of the TRB Global Road Safety Subcommittee ANB10(8),

We hope you are well and hope to see you in Washington, DC, in January 2014.  If you haven't already done so, you can register for TRB at:  http://www.trb.org/AnnualMeeting2014/AM2014Registration.aspx

TRB ANNUAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Please mark your calendar for our Wednesday Subcommittee meeting and our Thursday, Global Road Safety free workshop (it is no longer Sunday as in past years).  Please plan to stay through Thursday because the Workshop on Pedestrian Safety Across the Five Pillars of the Decade of Action will be an interesting, useful one.  The information for the Subcommittee meeting and the workshop are below:

1) Global Road Safety Subcommittee Meeting - Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Event Type:        Published Meeting - Committee (M)

Event Title:        Global Road Safety Subcommittee, ANB10(8)

Event Date:        01/15/2014 10:15 AM-12:00 PM

Event Location:        Marriott, Park Tower Suite 8212

Sponsored By:         Transportation Safety Management (ANB10) 

2) Global Road Safety Workshop (Pedestrian Safety) - Thursday, January 16, 2014

Session 869

Thursday, January 16, 2014, 8:00am-12:00pm, Marriott, Maryland B 

Pedestrian Safety Across the Five Pillars of the United Nations Decade of Action

Kim Kolody Silverman, CH2M Hill, presiding

Sponsored by Committee on Transportation Safety Management (ANB10); Subcommittee on Global Road Safety (ANB10(8))

Pedestrians account for 22% of the 1.24 million traffic deaths a year, with the burden falling most heavily on low- and middle-income countries. This workshop is designed for practitioners and researchers to provide an understanding of challenges and solutions for the pedestrian safety problem. Experts present the latest research on pedestrian safety across the Five Pillars of the UN Decade of Action: safety management, safer roads, safer vehicles, safer road users, and postcrash response.

Overview and WHO Report (P14-6975)

Ann M. Dellinger/David Sleet, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Pillar 1 - Safety Management (P14-6976)

Offer Grembek, University of California, Berkeley

Pillar 2 - Safer Roads (P14-6977)

Charles V. Zegeer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 

Pillar 3 - Safer Vehicles (P14-6978)

David Ward, Global NCAP

Pillar 4 - Safer Road Users (P14-6979)

David Shinar, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Pillar 5 - Post Crash (P14-6980)

Dia Gainor, NASEMSO

ADDITIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1) Please visit our subcommittee website, which includes photos from past subcommittee activities and additional information: https://sites.google.com/site/trbsubcommitteeanb108/

2) Below is a link to a new report by Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle that might be of interest to the friends of ANB10(8):

Road safety in 170 low-, middle-, and high-income countries

We thank you for your interest in global road safety and look forward to seeing you in January.  

Sincerely,

Bella Dinh-Zarr, PhD, MPH (Chair)

Kim Kolody (Co-Chair)

Lori Mooren (Co-Chair)

Offer Grembek, PhD (Research Coordinator)

TRB Global Road Safety Subcommittee ANB 10(8)