SPEAKER 1-Matts-Ake Belin
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SPEAKER 1- Matts-Ake Belin Dr. Matts-Åke Belin has over 30 years of experience within the Swedish government primarily worked with overall safety policies, strategies and collaboration with different stakeholders. In 2007 – 2009 Dr. Belin worked for World Health Organization in Geneva where he participated in the development of global road safety strategies and global partnerships. Dr. Belin has also chaired the technical committee 3.1 on National Road Safety Policies and Programme, World Road Association and served as the international representative at the US Transportation Research Board (TRB) standing committee ANB 10 Transportation Safety Management. Dr. Belin is also the Swedish delegate in UN Road Safety Collaboration and he has served as national and international senior policy adviser and supported different Vision Zero initiatives around the world. Dr. Belin was also deeply involved in the preperation and organization of 3rd Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Stockholm february 2020. Currently, Dr. Belin is Director of Vision Zero Academy at the Swedish Transport Administration. Parallel with his work within the Swedish government, Dr. Belin also has an academic carrier. Dr. Belin has a PhD in public health policy from Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He is also affiliated with KTH Royal Technology Institute, in Stockholm, where he is serving as an adjunct professor on traffic safety. Dr. Belin is also responsible for a research program funded by the Swedish Transport Administration, in order to promote research in policy, implementation and innovation within the transport sector with focus on Vision Zero
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SPEAKER 1- Matts-Ake Belin
Dr. Matts-Åke Belin has over 30 years of experience within the Swedish government primarily worked with overall safety policies, strategies and collaborationwith different stakeholders. In 2007 – 2009 Dr. Belin worked for World Health Organization in Geneva where he participated in the development of global roadsafety strategies and global partnerships.
Dr. Belin has also chaired the technical committee 3.1 on National Road Safety Policies and Programme, World Road Association and served as theinternational representative at the US Transportation Research Board (TRB) standing committee ANB 10 Transportation Safety Management. Dr. Belin is also theSwedish delegate in UN Road Safety Collaboration and he has served as national and international senior policy adviser and supported different Vision Zeroinitiatives around the world. Dr. Belin was also deeply involved in the preperation and organization of 3rd Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety inStockholm february 2020. Currently, Dr. Belin is Director of Vision Zero Academy at the Swedish Transport Administration.
Parallel with his work within the Swedish government, Dr. Belin also has an academic carrier. Dr. Belin has a PhD in public health policy from KarolinskaInstitute in Stockholm, Sweden. He is also affiliated with KTH Royal Technology Institute, in Stockholm, where he is serving as an adjunct professor on traffic safety.Dr. Belin is also responsible for a research program funded by the Swedish Transport Administration, in order to promote research in policy, implementation andinnovation within the transport sector with focus on Vision Zero
PIARC International Seminar on:Road Safety in Low to Middle Income Countries:
Issues and CountermeasuresTECHNICAL COMMITTEE 3.1 ROAD SAFETY
Virtual, 18 - 20 MAY 2021
Global road safety, Stockholm declaration and UN resolution, second decade of action
Dr. Matts-Ake Belin, Director Vision Zero Academy/Swedish Transport Administration, Adj. Professor Swedish Royal Institute of Technology
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• need to promote an integrated approach to road safety such as a safe system approach and Vision Zero…strengthen national intersectoral collaboration, including engagement with non-governmental organizations and civil society and academia, as well as businesses and industry
• Proclaims the period 2021–2030 as the Second Decade of Action for Road Safety, with a goal of reducing road traffic deaths and injuries by at least 50 per cent from 2021 to 2030
• Calls upon businesses and industries of all sizes and sectors to contribute to the attainment of the road safety-related Sustainable Development Goals, including by applying safe system principles to their entire value chain…
• Encourages Member States and private sector entities that have not yet done so to establish an effective mechanism to reduce the number of crashes, road traffic fatalities and injuries caused by professional drivers, including drivers of commercial vehicles, owing to job-specific hazards…
• Decides to convene a high-level meeting of the General Assembly, no later than the end of 2022, on improving global road safety with a view to addressing gaps and challenges as well as mobilizing political leadership and promoting multisectoral and multi-stakeholder collaboration in this regard
• https://www.who.int/teams/social-determinants-of-health/safety-and-mobility/decade-of-action-for-road-safety-2021-2030
• Comments are to be sent to [email protected] by 28 May 2021.
SPEAKER 2- John Milton, PhD, PE, RSP2I, PTOEState Safety Engineer:Director of Transportation Safety and Systems AnalysisWashington State Department of TransportationOlympia, WA, USA
John Milton, works for the Washington State Department of Transportations, where he is the State Safety Engineer, and the Director of Transportation Safety and Systems Analysis. He is a licensed engineer with over 33 years of experience in multimodal safety, design and traffic operations. He received his Doctor of Philosophy Degree from the University of Washington in the United States, where he specialized in road safety and crash severity. He is Safety Section Chair for the Transportation Research Board (TRB), Chair of the World Road Association (PIARC) Technical Committee 3.1 on Road Safety, and Vice Chair for the Committee on Safety for the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO), he is also a member of the Committee on Performance Effects of Geometric Design, Human Factors of Infrastructure Design and Operations, and Statistical Methods Committees.
