Joining the Dots 2026
Sponsors
Keynote Speaker
Lilian Greenwood MP
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for Local Transport)
Lilian Greenwood was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department for Transport and Junior Lord of the Treasury (Government Whip) on 16 September 2025.
She was previously appointed Vice-Chamberlain of HM Household (Government Whip) between 7 September 2025 and 16 September 2025. She was also Minister for the Future of Roads at the Department for Transport between 9 July 2024 and 7 September 2025.
She was re-elected as the MP for Nottingham South in July 2024, and has represented the constituency since May 2010.
Lilian was Shadow Secretary of State for Transport between 2015 and 2016, also operating as Shadow Rail Minister from 2011 to 2015. Lilian was appointed Opposition Deputy Chief Whip by Sir Keir Starmer in May 2021, occupying the role until 2023 when she was made Shadow Minister for Arts, Heritage, and Civil Society.
Lilian also chaired the Transport Select Committee from July 2017 to January 2020.
09:30 - 10:00
Registration Open
10:00 - 10:30
Welcome and Keynote from Lillian Greenwood MP
10:30 - 11:40
Delivering a Safe System
Chair
Having dedicated over a decade to road safety, Dan has been involved in leading a number of pioneering and critically acclaimed initiatives such as MAST online, CrashMap.co.uk and Safer Roads Berkshire all of which have gone on to win major awards. Dan also does a good deal of training, public speaking and is often used as a commentator by various media networks.
Dan has a background in marketing and communications who has overseen many of RSA’s campaigns; a portfolio of initiatives that embraces everything from car seat safety and child pedestrian training to young drivers and motorcyclists.
In addition to his role in Agilysis, Dan is chair of PACTS (www.pacts.org.uk)
Data for Strategy
Kay Asuni is the Head of Road Safety Data at the Department for Transport, leading national digital programmes such as CRaSH and FCIA, leading on speed policy and overseeing the rural roads programme. She leads on designing and commissioning the Road Safety Investigation Branch and supports delivery of the Road Safety Strategy. With extensive experience in research leadership, stakeholder engagement, and evidence-based policymaking, Kay has worked across central and local government to influence senior stakeholders and close critical evidence gaps. She holds postgraduate qualifications in social research and project management.
TfWM Road Safety
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Vision Zero for Greater Manchester
Rhiannon has over 20 years’ experience in road safety and has led multiple award winning campaigns and initiatives across the North West. She specialises in partnering with emergency services and supporting families bereaved by road traffic collisions. Rhiannon is currently the Road Danger Reduction Manager for Greater Manchester, where she is responsible for driving forward the implementation of Vision Zero.
She holds a degree in Business Management and a Master’s in Professional Practice in Education. Rhiannon is deeply committed to improving public understanding of road danger and influencing behaviour change to prevent deaths and serious injuries on our roads.
11:40 - 12:00
Coffee Break
12:00 - 13:05
Enhanced use of data
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Nathan has been working in road transport consultancy since 2020, focussing on communicating actionable insight from data for clients both in the UK and internationally.
He has led and contributed to a wide variety of projects including the multi-million-pound HelmUK project (the UK’s first on-road platooning trials) and the design and implementation of a model simulating the impact of safety measures on KSIs for National Highways’ Roads to Zero Harm project.
Nathan has experience of manipulating and analysing a wide range of road transport datasets, including the UK’s STATS19 road collision database, using tools such as SQL, R and Excel.
A competent communicator with a background in education, Nathan excels at presenting technical ideas to different audiences. He has a first-class Masters’ Degree in Mathematics from the University of Oxford.
Implications of RSFs for analysts
Matthew is a government statistician, and for the last 5 years have led the road safety statistics team at DfT. My team collates road collision data from police forces (via the STATS19 collection) and publishes a range of statistics and data extracts on road safety topics, including the annual Reported Road Casualties GB reports. With the Standing Committee on Road Injury Collision Statistics (SCRICS), we also co-ordinate reviews of STATS19 and resulting updates to the collection.
Bruce is an insightful data professional with substantial experience of developing and applying analytical techniques in numerous contexts, Bruce brought these skills into the road safety sphere over 20 years ago. Since his appointment as project manager for the multi award-winning MAST Online project, Bruce has become widely recognised as a leading expert on road casualty data, contributory factor analysis, resident risk, analytical architecture, and enforcement data management.
Bruce works closely with organisations such as the UK Department for Transport, National Highways, Transport Scotland, and Transport for London as well as providing consultancy for international projects on data architecture and reporting. Bruce is also a member of the government’s Standing Committee for Road Injury Collision Statistics (SCRICS) in the UK.
As well as his substantial technical skill base, Bruce is also an experienced and effective conference speaker and technical trainer.
Data lessons from vehicle inequalities project
Dr Ivo Wengraf is Research & Data Manager at the RAC Foundation. His main research interest is in using government and other administrative datasets to better inform national road transport policy discussions.
He is or has been involved in a number of projects which join official data sources to produce better insights, including STATS19 to health and to vehicle characteristics, and DVLA to DVSA data to produce a single research-use dataset. He is on the RSGB Champions group, is part of the STATS19 R package authoring group, and was a member of the last STATS19 review panel.
Bruce is an insightful data professional with substantial experience of developing and applying analytical techniques in numerous contexts, Bruce brought these skills into the road safety sphere over 20 years ago. Since his appointment as project manager for the multi award-winning MAST Online project, Bruce has become widely recognised as a leading expert on road casualty data, contributory factor analysis, resident risk, analytical architecture, and enforcement data management. Bruce works closely with organisations such as the UK Department for Transport, National Highways, Transport Scotland, and Transport for London as well as providing consultancy for international projects on data architecture and reporting. Bruce is also a member of the government’s Standing Committee for Road Injury Collision Statistics (SCRICS) in the UK. As well as his substantial technical skill base, Bruce is also an experienced and effective conference speaker and technical trainer.
Sharing and Using Injury Collision Data within the Lancashire RSP
Tony is the Road Safety Manager for Lancashire County Council, he leads teams in Education and Engagement, Speed Assessment and School Crossing Patrol.
Tony is Chair of the Delivery Group of the Lancashire Road Safety Partnership. Previously, Tony was a Strategic Manager with Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service, leading their Corporate Intelligence and Emergency Planning departments. He was additionally; the National Fire Chief Councils Lead Officer for Road Safety. Tony is a Trustee for TyreSafe. Over the years Tony has presented at numerous road safety conferences and has championed safer roads for all.
KCC Crash Remedial Programme
Stewart has been working in road safety at Kent County Council for a decade.
Beginning his career as an analyst, he has overseen and developed the authorities Crash Remedial Programme and has lead on providing insight and monitoring across the council’s Road Safety and Active Travel teams.
Stewart now leads Kent’s Road Safety Intelligence team who champion the use of data, analysis and new technologies in supporting road safety delivery and safe system implementation.
A Novel visualisation of STATS19 vehicle-level collision data
Dr Ollie Gunawan is a Senior Operational Research Analyst at National Highways. He has a background in spatial data analysis and has recently completed work exploring the relationships between flooding and collisions on the strategic road network, prioritising intervention sites for suicide prevention, and performance monitoring of safety-related schemes.
13:05 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:00
Panel: Road Safety Strategy, What about the analysts?
Chair
Richard has over a decade of road safety management experience in the public and private sector
Specialist in data analysis and visualisation
An expert in enforcement management and UK road legislation
Proven ability to lead large multi-agency partnerships, achieving consensus and progressing the joint aims of diverse agencies.
Excellent verbal and written communications skills with substantial experience of working with the media.
15:00 - 15:15
Coffee Break
15:15 - 16:20
Enhanced Analysis
Chair
Tanya has a background in research, working in road safety analysis for the last twelve years.
Specialises in the provision of in-depth research, data management and evaluation design and implementation.
Advises on the incorporation of appropriate behaviour change models and behaviour change techniques in intervention design.
Outstanding communication skills, demonstrated through the production of high-quality written reports; paper presentations; and training delivery.
Has been involved in a number of high profile projects including E-Valu-It; research into rural young drivers and adult pedestrians; and evaluation of a variety of local and national road safety schemes, including multiple young driver campaigns, a longitudinal study of national BikeSafe, and a large scale evaluation of IAM Roadsmart.
Mapping the Road to Zero Harm: Strengthening the Evidence Base for Strategic Safety Forecasting
Victoria Pyta is Principal Policy Advisor for Road Safety at National Highways, where she leads the development of the evidence-based "Road to Zero Harm" initiative. With 20 years of international experience spanning ARRB, TRL and the Victorian Department of Transport, Victoria specializes in bridging the gap between research and operational policy. Holding a Master’s in Applied Statistics and an Honours degree in psychology, she applies data-driven behavioral insights across all Safe System pillars. At Joining the Dots, she will share an overview of the research underpinning National Highways' strategic roadmap toward achieving zero fatalities and serious injury on the Strategic Road Network.
Road Safety Data Analytics: Prediction and Evaluation
Lee is a Reader in Applied Statistics in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics at Newcastle University, with research interests in statistical methods for road safety data analytics and prediction of environmental extremes. Lee has 20 years’ experience working with road safety practitioners in the UK, Europe, the US and Latin America, mainly in the area of road safety scheme evaluation of predictive analytics.
Harsh Braking: The canary in the coal mine
Dr. Peter Sanders is a researcher and product analyst focussing on the intersection between road safety and highway asset management. Peter’s 15 years of experience as a principal researcher, and subsequent publication of his PhD thesis, lead him to the following conclusion. That to fully understand road safety, we must understand the experience of vehicles.
Peter’s work at NIRA Dynamics is focussed on the use of connected vehicle data in the road safety domain.
Devon & Cornwall – Mobile Phone & Seatbelt Solution
Geoff is the General Manager for Acusensus UK, delivering the award winning ‘Heads-Up’ distracted driving solution. Developed in Australia, the system has been widely used operationally across the UK, leading to thousands of seatbelt and mobile phone prosecutions – whilst delivering measurable improvements to driver behaviours.
Through two decades of enforcement system experience, he has been involved in the implementation and monitoring of over 500 projects, giving an unrivalled understanding of the factors behind the successful operation of innovative enforcement projects, including a number of award-winning schemes.
Geoff is a Chartered Engineer and Chair of ITS UK’s Enforcement Forum.
16:20 - 16:30
Closing Remarks
Will began his career as an intelligence analyst with Essex Police, followed by a brief stint working in social care. In 2014 he joined the Safer Essex Roads Partnership (SERP) as their Strategy Analyst, working as part of the Essex Highways team. In 2022 he became the SERP Partnership Manager and also took on the voluntary position of Research Director for RSGB. Will enjoys riding bicycles and is undertaking a part time PhD with Anglia Ruskin University examining the on-road relationship between drivers and cyclists.
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