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Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals (CARSP) Upcoming and Past Events CARSP Conference 2024 CARSP is very excited to partner with Parachute to bring you the 2024 CARSP Conference. The aim of the CARSP conference is to share knowledge among Canada’s road safety professionals with the goal of making our roads safer. Conference delegates represent a broad array of disciplines including health professionals, engineers, Government officials, crash re-constructionists, insurers, researchers, enforcement, and more. The conference content is a combination of plenary, panel, and practitioner/researcher presentation sessions, as well as networking opportunities. There is also a Student Paper Competition and an event aimed at students and young professionals. Presentation sessions contain research and evaluation papers as well as policy and program practice presentations. Examples of the types of materials presented include: the development of a road safety policy, road safety research findings, systematic literature reviews, evaluation results for road safety programs, and innovative program approaches to decreasing road safety injuries and deaths. Stay tuned for the launch of the Call for Abstracts and the Sponsorship/Exhibitor Opportunities in late October 2023! When: June 16-19, 2024 Where: Delta Hotels by Marriott Ottawa City Centre, Ottawa Be in the know!...Subscribe to our conference email list so you don't miss a conference update! Have questions? Please contact info@carsp.ca for more information.
CARSP Webinar Series CARSP offers its members a series of free monthly webinars on a variety of road safety related topics. It also offers the public free access to past webinar recordings! Information on CARSP webinars can be found in the “Events and Training” area of the CARSP website. The last webinar was entitled “Which technologies will make my driving safer?” The speaker was Dr. Martin Lavalliere. He discusses how the development of new advanced vehicle technologies has outpaced the public’s ability to fully understand them and use them the way they were intended. There is also a tendency to become overly dependent on these technologies, thus encouraging drivers to be more distracted and less focused on their driving. Dr. Lavalliere also explores the high degree of inconsistency in the standardization of these technologies including their names. There is also a lack of research looking at the effectiveness of these technologies in terms of preventing collisions and hence preventing road crash injuries and deaths. Dr. Lavalliere explores all these issues. The webinar recording is now available for viewing here.
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