09.30

Chair: Professor Herman De Croo
Speaker of the Belgian Parliament
Chairman of ETSC Board of Directors

09.40

OPENING
Loyola de Palacio
Vice President, European Commission

10.00

SETTING GOALS
Effective road safety target setting
Dr. Rune Elvik
Institute for Transport Economics, Oslo

Discussion opener:
Professor George Kannellaidis
National Technical University of Athens

10.45

SHARING RESPONSIBILITY
Central and local government partnership
Fred Wegman
Institute for Road Safety Research (SWOV), The Netherlands

Discussion openers:
Federico-Fernandez Alonso
Direccion General de Trafico, Spain

Finbarr Crowley
National Roads Authority, Ireland

11.40

BREAK

12.00

REDUCING HIGH RISKS
Young novice driver measures
Nils-Petter Gregersen
Swedish Transport Research Institute(VTI)

Dr Gregor Bartl
Austrian Road Safety Board (KfV)

Cornelia Royeck
German Road Safety Council (DVR)

Discussion

13.00

LUNCH

14.15

Chair: Ewa Hedkvist Petersen MEP
European Parliament Rapporteur for road safety

14.30

CHANGING STREETS, PROTECTING PEOPLE
Making roads safer for all
Chris Lines & Klaus Machata
EU DUMAS project

Discussion opener:
Professor Aniceto Zaragoza
EU Road Federation

15.15

PROTECTING PEOPLE IN CRASHES
Making cars safer
Professor Adrian Hobbs
Transport Research Laboratory, UK

Discussion opener:
Farid Bendjellal
Chair, EuroNCAP Technical Committee of the European Car Industry Association (ACEA)
Safety Department Renault, France

16.00

BREAK

16.20

BEST PROSPECTS
Intelligent designs
Risto Kulmala
Technical Research Centre (VTT), Finland

Discussion opener:
Dr. Bernhard Biehl
University of Mannheim, Germany

17.00

CLOSING ADDRESS
Isabelle Durant
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Transport and Mobility, Belgium

17.20

RECEPTION

19.00

CONFERENCE CLOSE