Local authorities are under constant pressure to respond quickly to concerns around speeding, crossing requests, and wider road safety issues, often before clear evidence is available.
This webinar, in collaboration with Rhevia, explored how rapid movement intelligence can support councils in prioritising interventions. Using real behavioural risk, exposure, and near-miss evidence, this approach enables faster, more defensible decisions without relying solely on long-term studies or historic collision data. It also highlighted how this methodology aligns with the Department for Transport’s growing focus on evidence-led, data-driven decision making.
The session showcased how councils can use rapid, real-world behavioural evidence to understand emerging risk before harm occurs. Attendees saw a practical framework for moving from public concern and anecdotal pressure to defensible intervention decisions using near-miss risk, exposure, and movement behaviour insights. The session was grounded in live local authority use cases, making it directly relevant to current decision-making pressures around crossings, speeding, school routes, bus stops, and temporary schemes.
Key takeaways:
- A practical framework for moving from public concern and anecdotal complaints to evidence-led road safety prioritisation
- How to identify emerging risk using behavioural evidence such as exposure, near misses, speeding, and unsafe movement patterns before collisions occur
- Ways to justify why a specific location, intervention, or investment should be prioritised now
- How rapid movement studies can reduce reliance on long-term surveys and historic collision data alone
- Approaches to demonstrating whether interventions are actually improving conditions over time
- Greater confidence in responding to councillors, residents, and internal stakeholders with clear, defensible evidence
Who should attend?
The ideal attendees are professionals working within local authorities, combined authorities, transport consultancies, and public-sector infrastructure teams who are responsible for prioritising road safety, active travel, and public realm interventions.