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Day 1. Wednesday 13th October 2010

Road Safety Day

10.30 - 11.00: TBC

11.15 - 11.45: Learning from Road Safety Audits - Designing Safer Roads
Matthew Steele / Pamela Townley; Director / Technical Director, Traffic Transport and Road Safety Associates Ltd

Requests for Road Safety Audits are an increasing element of highway design and scheme development, For those who regularly submit schemes for Road Safety Audit, or those submitting a scheme for the first time, the process can be daunting.

The presenters will clearly explain the key elements of the NRA HD19/09 Road Safety Auditing Standard, including the overall process, key stages of audit and key roles. The presenters will then use a range of visual material from actual Road Safety Audits to highlight the key design and construction issues that are regularly identified as problems, such as:
• The demarcation of, proximity and inter-visibility between junctions and accesses;
• Conflict due to vehicle turning movements;
• The inconsistent use of chevron signing and signing of bends;
• User and approach conflicts at roundabouts;
• See-through and stoplines at signal controlled junctions;
• The connectivity of pedestrian and cycle facilities;
• Vegetation, planting and other obstructions within visibility envelopes;
• Ponding and drainage into residential properties;
• Temporary traffic management;
• Safety barriers and passive design elements; and,
• Street-lighting.

Each issue will be addressed in turn, including design solutions and remedial measures.With the likely reduction in new-build road schemes within Ireland, the focus will undoubtedly shift to location specific schemes to improve the existing network. Such schemes require bespoke solutions which are not always immediately apparent from prevailing design standards, but build in elements of safer road design from the outline concept. This also generates cost savings through less re-design at detailed design/contact stage, and largely eliminating costly alterations during, or following the completion of, construction.

12.00 - 12.30: How the NRA, working with Local Authorities and other Government Agencies review the National Road Network
Forbes Vigors; Project Manager Road Safety, National Roads Authority

The recording of Collision Information, Who, How, and why its done.
The development of Reference Populations,
The calculation of Collision Frequencies,
The calculation of Collision Rates,
The identification and review of locations,
A brief intro to the EU Road Safety Infrastructure Directive.

12.45 - 1.15: TBC

1.30 - 2.00: Temporary Traffic Management - Policing the Standards
Steven Archer; Director, CHM Health & Safety Training Ltd

Why the standard of Traffic Management at Roadworks needs policing
Who’s responsibility it is to police it
The benefits that a managed policing system brings to the roadworker & road user
The problems facing those responsible for policing the standards
Available training & solutions

2.15 - 2.45: Safety Working on High Speed Roads
TMS Barrier Systems

3.00 - 3.30: TBC

Day 2. Thursday 14th October 2010

Highway maintenance and traffic management

10.30 - 11.15: The NRA DMRB and Specification
Helen Hughes; Senior Project Manager, National Roads Authority

The NRA DMRB and Specification are an integral part of road design and construction. It is therefore important that all designers and Contractors are aware of the on going changes that are made to these documents. The presentation will also give a brief overview of how to use the NRA DMRB, which will be getting its own website in the near future.

11.30 - 12.00: New Pavement Specification and Design Standards
Jim Thorpe; Director, Roughan and O'Donovan

There have been numerous changes in recent years regarding pavement design and conformity to European Standards. This presentation will run through these changes and will give the delegates a better understanding of what checks and tests are required on site. The presentation will also cover the requirements of the NRA DMRB and NRA Specification.

12.15 - 12.45: TBC

1.00 - 12.45: NSAI (National Standards Authority of Ireland)
Speaker and title TBC

1.45 - 2.15: Traffic management for roadworks in 2011 and its impact on local authorities, designers and contractors
Colm Kieran; Solutions Director, CHM

An update of the new issues affecting the management of Traffic at Roadworks due to revised legislation, codes of practice and training requirements.
The revisions to “The Guidance for the Control and Management of Traffic at Roadworks” document and the resultant change to the Signing Lighting and Guarding at Roadworks course.
Issues arising and feedback from the delivery of Traffic Management Designer Course across Ireland.
The resulting issues arising for Local Authorities, Designers and Contractors involved with roadworks.
Changes expected in industry for 2011 including training requirements

2.30 - 3.00: Motorway Tolling and the impact on SME's
J.J. Killian; Managing Director, Ignite Business Solutions

3.15 - 3.45: Lancashire speed sign mapping project
Gert Riemersma; Technical Director, Routescene

The Lancashire speed mapping project was initiated to create a comprehensive database of all speed signs in the county. The collected speed sign and location information was then to be used within a simple low cost device to advice motorists of speed zone changes and alert them if they were speeding. The project required the speed signs to be collected in an efficient and cost-effective manner and the chosen contractor, Photarc Surveys, selected the routescene video mapping system to undertake the work.
In 2009 over 8000km of roads in Lancashire were driven with multi-camera video mapping system and subsequently processed within ESRI's ArcView mapping package.

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