International Conference 2008
Managing Road and Runway Surfaces to Improve Safety

VENUE The Centaur - Cheltenham England 11 - 14 May 2008

Key Speakers

Professor Richard Allsop - View Presentation

Richard Allsop is an Emeritus Professor of Transport Studies at University College London and has been active in road safety research and its application in practice for more than 40 years.

He is a member of the DfT’s Road Safety Advisory Panel and chairs its Statistics Group; a director of PACTS (the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety) and a Board Member of the European Transport Safety Council, for which he chairs the road safety index programme PIN.

Professor Allsop, who is also a visiting professor at Newcastle University, has been actively involved in Britain’s Road safety strategy and targets for the last 20 years, and has provided related advice in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan and New Zealand.

He has a DSc degree from UCL, is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and in 1997 was made an OBE and given the IHT award for work in road safety and traffic management.

Roger Johansson - View Presentation

Roger is recognised as a pioneer in the development of Vision Zero, which is the basis for traffic safety policy in Sweden and has influenced policies in many other countries.

He is Chief Strategist for Traffic Safety at the International Secretariat, Swedish Road Administration and was earlier Deputy Director and Acting Director for Traffic Safety at SRA.

He has a background in research with positions as Senior Researcher at the Swedish Road & Transport Research Institute (VTI) and earlier at the Universities at Uppsala and Umeå.

Roger has written many papers and made numerous presentations on, primarily, Traffic Safety Management and Strategies.

Ginny Clarke - View Presentation

Ginny Clarke has been the Chief Highway Engineer for the Highways Agency since July 2001.

She is a member of the Agency’s Board and is the Director responsible for Safety, Standards and Research. She is also currently responsible for Procurement.

Her Directorates have 300 people who work on supporting the management, improvement and operation of 4,500 miles of motorways and other strategic roads in England.

As Chief Highway Engineer for the Agency, Ginny is the UK’s First Delegate for the World Road Association (PIARC) and is currently chair of the Strategic Planning Commission on the Executive Committee of the Association. She is also a non Executive Director of CIRIA.

Peter Cenek - View Presentation

Peter will provide an authoritative analysis of current skid resistance management issues and developments in Australia and New Zealand. 

His presentation will draw on the wide range of skid resistance related field and laboratory based research he has conducted in New Zealand since the early 1990’s.

Peter is a partner in Opus International Consultants, an infrastructure based consultancy, which was recently the supreme winner of the New Zealand export awards. 

A professional mechanical engineer, Peter has held the position of Research Manager, Physical and Engineering Sciences at Opus Central Laboratories since 1986.

He has researched and published widely on numerous aspects of road and runway asset management and was tasked with developing skid resistance, texture, rolling resistance and tyre wear models for the HDM-4 project.

Kyong-Soo Yoo - View Presentation

Kyong-Soo Yoo is Head of Korea Road & Transportation Research Institute, Korea Road & Transportation Association. He is also President of the Road Engineering Association of Asia & Australasia and Executive Vice President of the Korea Institute of Intelligent Transportation Systems.

He studied at Ohio State University, where he majored in Traffic Engineering in the Civil Engineering Department. He started his career as a Highways and Traffic Engineer with the Korea Expressway Corporation (KEC; then Korea Highway Corporation).

While he was Director-General and CEO of the Highway and Transportation Technology Research Institute , KEC, the Institute launched a government-funded research project entitled “Substantial Pavement Research Program”. The Program is scheduled for completion in 2010. Kyong-Soo Yoo introduced the contents and interim results, highlighting skid resistance management, plus the current Korean system of pavement management from the view of traffic safety.

Michel Gothie - View Presentation

As Research Director the “Laboratoire des Ponts et Chaussées de Lyon” he is in charge of many research programs (skid resistance, trucks, texture and noise).

A graduate engineer of the “Ecole Centrale de Nantes” in France, he has made his entire career in the road surface characteristics field with a focus on Pavement and Safety issues.

At the conference, Michel addressed World road safety problems; the relationship between skid resistance and safety, and the methodology and measurement used in France for safety studies.

He is an associate member of the PIARC Technical Committee 4.2 on vehicle/road interaction ( ex. C1 Committee in charge of surface characteristics) and in the standardisation field he is secretary of the CEN/TC in charge of surface characteristics.

Michel is also chairman of the French mirror group for CEN and ISO standardisation and is a member of the ISO/TC in charge of texture measurements with non contact technologies.

In the European research field he participated in several programmes, including VERT (Vehicle Road Tyre Interaction), TROWS (Tyre and Road Wear and Slip assessment), VERTEC (second part of the VERT program) and HEAVYROUTE (propose a safe route to the Heavy Good Vehicles).