Cities' road safety efforts in the spotlight at Polis' side event at International Transport Forum

Polis' side event discussed innovative practice in road safety and how this can be deployed by local and regional authorities. The event made a clear point on the necessity to involve local governments to improve urban road safety and to bring sustainable transport objectives and the road safety community closer together.

New York City presented its path to Vision Zero and won the ITF's 2018 Transport Achievement Award the day after. Announcing the Award, ITF Secretary-General Young-Tae Kim said: “New York City has created an exemplary road safety programme that is a showcase for addressing urban road safety as a public health issue”. Read more about the award here.

Presentations given at the event

Please find the list of speakers in the side event programme (23 May). Presentations given at the event are available here.
In addition to the side event, Polis Secretary General Karen Vancluysen participated in an expert panel at the Outlook session (24 May) to discuss the major transport disruptions and innovations ahead of us. A summary, photos and recording are available here.
Polis president Dr. Jon Lamonte of Transport for Greater Manchester participated to the panel session "Protecting public spaces in urban areas" (25 May) which discussed that transport has increasingly been targeted by terrorists. A summary, photos and video can be found here.

Wrap up of the summit

Summaries, photos and videos from the formal programme of the ITF summit can be fund here.

Thinking Cities and road safety

At the ocassion of the ITF summit, the latest edition of our Thinking Cities magazine was released, that feature road safety as its cover theme. Among other things, you can read the story of New York's Vision Zero in the magazine, understand NACTO's Global Street Design Guide, see Polis member cities' questions on the safety of automated vehicles, while ETSC contributed a story explaining Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) and Transport for London shares its experience with ISA on local buses.

You can read it online here or download the pdf file.

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