Short course/CPD
Evaluating Road Safety Interventions
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Course overview
A new short course for Road Safety Officers is being offered at Cranfield University on how to evaluate road safety interventions. The course is delivered by Dr Lisa Dorn who has extensive experience in evaluating road safety initiatives for private organizations and local councils. Recently, she has been the academic leader on a major Transport for London funded project to evaluate the effectiveness of a bus simulator on crash involvement.
The Department for Transport is keen that road safety initiatives are evaluated to ensure there is an evidence-base to interventions designed to reduce KSIs but few RSOs have received any formal training in methodology and research. Good evaluation methodology is critical to intervention success if RSOs are to respond to challenging KSI targets. Poor evaluations mean there is little understanding of what initiatives work and which initiatives do not. If a road safety initiative is poorly evaluated it could mean that effective interventions are not put in place, or worse still, that ineffective or even harmful interventions are implemented.
This new 2 day short course has been designed to increase RSO competency in evaluation research.
Location
Cranfield University is located at the very heart of the UK – within the innovation triangle between London and the cities of Oxford and Cambridge.
Our central location provides easy access from the M1, excellent main line rail service as well as proximity to key international airports. Set in rolling countryside, Cranfield offers a rich, rural landscape complemented by thriving towns and picturesque villages.
- Road: We are just 10 minutes from Junctions 13 & 14 of the M1 motorway. There is free parking on campus.
- Rail: Milton Keynes or Bedford
- Air: London Luton (22 miles), Heathrow (50 miles) or Birmingham (70 miles).
Course fee:
£500 per person including all catering and one night’s accommodation at Mitchell Hall on the university campus.
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How to register
Further information
For more information on this course or booking details please contact:
Academic Operations Unit
T: + 44 (0) 1234 754192
E: shortcourse@cranfield.ac.uk
Course description
The course aims to:-
- Consider the pitfalls in road safety evaluation study designs
- Introduce guidelines on how to design evaluation study appropriately
- Consider data analysis strategies to investigate effectiveness of road safety initiatives
Course Content
One of the main reasons for poor evaluation designs is that few road safety professionals understand the pitfalls in implementing studies. The volatile nature of human factors and environmental factors often mean that intended and unintended consequences may be an outcome of an intervention. These factors need to be taken into account in the initial intervention strategy as well as considered during the evaluation research.
There are also several issues to consider when designing an evaluation study such as the potential for selection bias and the best outcome variables against which the effectiveness of the intervention is being evaluated. RSOs also need to understand the most appropriate statistical analyses for their study design.
Competencies:
1. Understands the problems associated with before/after evaluation designs
2. Understands the advantages of a control group and randomized selection of participants
3. Understands the advantages and disadvantages of different outcome measures
4. Accurately designs an evaluation study
5. Understands research problems in data collection
6. Identifies the best method of analysing data to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of an initiative
Course Director
Dr Lisa DornT : +44 (0) 1234 758229E: l.dorn@cranfield.ac.uk
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