General Consultation Identified Gaps

1. Name: *This question is required.

2. Organisation (if applicable)

3. How important do you consider this identified research gap: Extending and deepening knowledge for an improved evidence base in Fitness to Drive health issues, especially re impacts of ageing *This question is required.

4. How important do you consider this identified research gap: How can the Safe System approach best be integrated into the mainstream of road safety activity, including highway engineering, road assessment, planning and asset management? *This question is required.

5. How important do you consider this identified research gap: How can technology best be used to reduce criminality and unsafe driving, e.g. by preventing offences such as disqualified driving, hit and run collisions, and driver distraction offences, and supporting compliance with safe practices? *This question is required.

6. How important do you consider this identifed research gap: Future-proofing, preparing for and adapting to new technologies (e.g. semi/autonomous vehicles) such as altered behaviour patterns, vehicle usage changes, new driver skills etc. *This question is required.

7. How important do you consider this identified research gap: Prevention and mitigation of death and serious injuries in road crashes (including the potential to reduce the consequences of serious injury through improved access to the emergency medical system, better trauma care and the rehabilitation of crash victims) and the cost of long-term care of permanent impairment from road traffic injury *This question is required.

8. How important do you consider this identified research gap: National review of urban design standards with pedestrians in mind, extending Road Assessment Programmes (RAP) to pedestrians and aligning with Safe System principles *This question is required.

9. How important do you consider this identified research gap: Evaluation of national road safety interventions e.g. Safe Drive Stay Alive, Community Speed Watch, etc. *This question is required.

10. How important do you consider this identified research gap: Innovative traffic calming and provision for pedestrians and cyclists *This question is required.

11. How important do you consider this identified gap: Development of a Cycle Helmet Safety Rating *This question is required.

12. How important do you consider this identified research gap: Evidence base for effective national work-related safety *This question is required.

13. How important do you consider this identified research gap: Using a socio-legal framework in enforcement
Explanatory notes: Socio-legal research is law in action; how the law is understood, interpreted and applied in practice in its social and legal context by all legal actors/ parties in the criminal (or civil) justice system (players, institutions and procedures). In our case this is likely to concern road traffic law and regulations and criminal law and how they are applied at all stages of the criminal justice process from the commission of an offence through the enforcement stages to the outcome, and the interpretation of that law in practice.

So, e.g. are new laws achieving their desired objectives? What is their impact on particular groups, e.g. crime victims, law enforcement personnel, offending drivers. Are the outcomes better or more efficient or effective than they were? What are the views and experiences of the parties?

Socio-legal research may not be empirical – where collecting already existing facts and figures, but where it creates new knowledge it will be empirical. Socio-legal data could include attitudes, opinions, beliefs, views, perceptions of the parties (legal practitioners, professionals like police, court staff, victims, defendants, litigants).
*This question is required.

14. And finally, as a more specific aspect of the 'Fitness to Drive' topic outlined in Q3, how important do you regard the following: Consideration of regulation frameworks for Fitness to Drive health issues - present and recommended - perhaps from a socio-legal and/or cross-cultural perspective (refer to the explanation of 'socio-legal' in the previous question if required) *This question is required.

15. Have we missed any research or work topics out that you feel are important, or comments on those listed?

General Consultation Identified Gaps

Road Safety Trust Stakeholder Consultation