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The number 1 Road Safety Data and Analysts conference is back for 2027!
Joining the Dots, the RSGB National Analysts Conference, returns for its 12th year. The conference brings together the people who collect, analyse and act on road safety data for a day of talks, discussion and shared practice. You’ll leave with ideas you can take back to your own team, and with contacts working on the same problems in other parts of the country.
IET Birmingham, Austin Court, 80 Cambridge St, Birmingham B1 2NP
Tuesday 2nd March 2027
09:00 - 16:30
Since 2016, Joining the Dots has supported the road safety profession, the stakeholders it works with and the wider community. The 2027 programme draws largely on papers submitted by people working in the field, from national government and highway authorities to universities, emergency services and consultancies. That means the sessions reflect the questions analysts are dealing with right now.
Kate Carpenter, President of CIHT, will open the day with the keynote. The programme will then turn to the question at the top of many analysts’ agendas: what has changed since the government published its Road Safety Strategy? You’ll hear how teams are linking police and health data, measuring outcomes through new Safety Performance Indicators, and turning connected vehicle data into intelligence they can act on.
From late morning, the conference will split into parallel streams, so you can follow the topics closest to your own work. One stream will dig into road safety inequalities and who carries the risk on our roads. Another will explore how analysts evaluate the strategic and local road network. In the afternoon, you’ll choose between a session on vehicles and vehicle data and a hands-on workshop on post-crash response, where you’ll work through practical exercises in small groups.
The whole conference will come back together for the final session, STATS19 plus. It will bring new evidence on how collision severity gets recorded, and a look at what it will take to agree road injury reporting standards across countries.
It will be a full day of fresh evidence and practical methods, with plenty of time to talk it all through with the people doing the work.
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Keynote Speaker
Kate Carpenter
President of CIHT
Kate was elected President of CIHT in June 2026.
Kate is the Director of Operational Road Safety – Buildings & Infrastructure (B&I) Europe at Jacobs.
She is a Chartered Civil Engineer with over 10 years’ experience in the planning, design and delivery of transport projects, and a further 27 years specialising in highway safety governance.
This includes casualty reduction; road safety audit; policy and process preparation; collision database management; speed management, development control and safety governance.
She delivers road safety services to local and strategic highway authority clients including National Highways, Welsh Government, Transport Scotland and Transport for London, and represents Jacobs through conference paper presentation and CIHT including SoRSA, PACTS, and Road Safety Observatory.
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