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Freedom Solutions Australia is launching an exciting, innovative road safety project - Safe Ride: In-Vehicle Assistive Technology Innovation, funded by the Australian Government through the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts. Upon launching, we’re conducting a survey to understand challenges around safe travels that people with a disability face. If you’re a health professional who work with people with a disability and have discussed safety in a vehicle with your clients, this survey is for you - https://lnkd.in/eqU8anTH Are you a family member of a person with a disability? Do you care for an individual with a disability? We need your input - https://lnkd.in/eqU8anTH The project aims to develop better solutions to overcome difficulties in keeping a passenger safe, such as preventing unbuckling during driving. Your contribution to the survey will help us understand your needs and current issues. With your input, we’ll be able to create innovative ideas to enhance in-car safety for people with a disability. Join the survey now: https://lnkd.in/eqU8anTH #SafeRide #AssistiveTechnology #freedomsolutions #RoadSafety

Truck drivers are the backbone of our country's economy and their workplace health and safety must be a priority - and our roads ARE their workplace. Critical to their safety, are heavy vehicle rest areas. If you believe we need to improve workplace conditions for our truck drivers and that rest areas need an upgrade, you're not alone. Senator Glenn Sterle and a committee of industry leaders want to help, but first they need your input! Complete the survey below to help shape a safer future for our truck drivers: https://lnkd.in/gsDc2Vc5

We welcome this move by TfL in Lambeth because residents living in deprived areas of the borough are nearly three times more likely to suffer an injury or be killed in a road collision. Our road danger reduction strategy, which was published in November, sets out how we will tackle this stark inequality, and the new Vision Zero Inequalities Dashboard will help us, and other London borough’s collect the essential data needed to track progress. Let’s all be clear that road danger is a social justice issue, and we are past the point where it’s enough to just ask motorists to slow down or pedestrians to look both ways when crossing a road. It is about making sure in the future streets are designed with road safety built-in, making them more equal and less dominated by motor traffic.

This Trackplot Limited Guide defines what is meant by regularly used terms such as “mobile phone coverage”, “coverage strength” and “network performance”; and details the factors which affect coverage including network provider, age and model of mobile phone, location, environment and weather. Read the Trackplot Limited Guide to access a coverage checker: https://lnkd.in/ehxRAApM #loneworker #safety #healthandsafety

The need for transportation options (this time: trains!) strikes again, so Jessica Schoner, PhD and Safe Streets Research & Consulting won't be at ITE presenting about new learnings related to High Injury Networks today as planned. Fortunately, Jessica has shared some key insights below. Let us know what you think and how we can collectively continue to incorporate and improve this important tool for safety planning in our cities, regions, and states.

Have you ever wondered how our #transport authorities determine what roads require investment compared to others in the network? While many factors influence these decisions, such as disaster recovery, financial stimulus and government priorities, #roadsafety is a critical consideration. To help inform investment priorities, Transport for London (TfL) launched its Vision Zero Inequalities Dashboard in early January 2024. The tool includes a map of London that shows stark levels of road traffic injury #inequality. As a first of its kind in Europe, the tool shows how deprivation is linked to higher road casualty levels, reinforcing the need to target investment and improvements to protect those most vulnerable. We think this is a great example of how systems thinking, together with fundamental information management principles, can enable more efficient data-driven decision making. Improving road safety for people, quicker. We're curious to know if you have seen a similar tool in Australia? Let us know in the comments! You can check out TfL's Vision Zero Inequalities Dashboard here: https://lnkd.in/gi69nfkH #infrastructure #engineering #informationmanagement #systemsthinking #data #road #pedestrians #cyclists #traffic #buildbackbetter #sdgs #sustainability #esg

This Trackplot Limited guide explains how to evaluate mobile phone coverage in the locations where your lone workers operate to establish reliability for health and safety use. Good, reliable reception is crucial for communications and you may need to consider satellite communications if the mobile phone coverage is poor. Read the Trackplot Limited Guide: https://lnkd.in/ehxRAApM #loneworker #safety #healthandsafety

Clearview Intelligence has strengthened its commitment to reducing deaths and injuries on the UK’s roads by becoming a corporate member of Road Safety GB! Read more: https://loom.ly/WetpfVo #RoadSafetyGB #SolarLite #ClearviewIntelligence

🚦🛑 Looking to reduce speeding and enhance safety? ClearGuide Safety is the ultimate solution. Target true speeding hotspots, address red-light running, and prioritize pedestrian safety. https://hubs.li/Q02c3YW_0 #safetyfirst

What did New Zealand look like 10 years ago? Check out NationalMap’s new “Looking Back” tool to find out!   A lot can change in 10 years, and if we look back into the rearview mirror of our past, then we can see quite clearly that 2014 really was a different place and time. Our new side-by-side map comparison tool helps us do this by showing us New Zealand as it is today and what it looked like 10 years ago. Perhaps the biggest change enacted upon our physical world is what we humans build – our built infrastructure, towns, cities and roads. But it’s not just new roads and developments, changes in policy and societal attitudes can mean regulatory change that is reflected in the data we maintain and curate too (think the massive nationwide changes in speed limits here). Of course, we’ve captured all of this change here at NationalMap, and thought it would be a positive and useful thing to share how powerful a simple side-by-side map visualisation can be when analysing change in our built (and regulatory) environment. You can check out our new “Looking Back” tool below and feel free to share your thoughts on how the world has changed since 2014 in the comments too.   #geospatial #builtenvironment #datafordecisionmakers https://lnkd.in/g5XyqSDM