8:00 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

(Breakfast Sponsored by the Maryland Traffic-Safety Awareness for Employers Program, Maryland Highway Safety Office

Drive Safely Work Week Campaign National Media Event (Camden Lobby)

The Network of Employers for Traffic Safety will launch the 10th annual Drive Safely Work Week campaign to keep the U.S. workforce safe on the road. This year’s campaign, Safe Driving is Your Responsibility.  Make the Commitment. focuses on 10 steps for responsible driving that every motorist should follow to ensure their safety and the safety of others.

Welcome & Symposium Overview

Symposium Moderator: 
Dave Melton, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety & Chair, NETS Board of Directors

Keynote Address: Reducing Traffic Harm On and Off the Job

Insightful forecasts herald a future where cars and trucks on our roadways will communicate with each other and with the roadway in real time.  This technology will help drivers avoid crashes and reduce unpredictable delays by transforming the next generation of vehicles into communication hubs. 

Speaker:
Leonard Evans, DPhil, President, Science Serving Society, Research Scientist at GM for 33 years

Safer and “Smarter” Vehicles

Vehicle manufacturers are designing and producing safer and “smarter” vehicles.  Preview safety and convenience features for the not-so-distant future.  Development of advanced vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle to roadside communication technologies have already progressed beyond the laboratory—along with many other life-saving devices. 

Speakers: 
Rob Strassburger, Vice President-Vehicle Safety & Harmonization, Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers
 
Arthur Carter, Senior Electronic Engineer, NHTSA

Safer and “Smarter” Roadways

“Smart” roadway technologies are being put into place as quickly as they can be developed and funded.  Roadways are being created that are more tolerant and forgiving of error.  In the future, roadside equipment will coordinate with equipment in vehicles to warn drivers of potentially dangerous situations.

Speaker: 
Michael Freitas, Managing Director, ITS Joint Program Office, FHWA

Safer and “Smarter” Roadways & Vehicles Employer Exchange: 
Projecting Roadway Safety Management Challenges & Opportunities

Employers will engage in moderator-led small group discussions to identify and prioritize opportunities and challenges from rapidly changing vehicles and roadways.  This exchange will be useful for employers in planning the critical steps to adapt to and best utilize advancing technology. 

Safer Vehicles on Safer Roads … But What About Safer Drivers?

Advancing technology has the potential to improve driving performance by providing drivers with useful information on driving conditions and situations.  The million-dollar questions are:  What will the role of the driver be?  How much information can a driver process?  Will the driver’s job be more complicated?

Speakers: 
Ronald R. Knipling, Ph.D, Traffic Safety & Human Factors Consultant

John Kwasnoski, Professor Emeritus of Forensic Physics & Crash Reconstructionist on the “Lethal Weapon – DWI Homicide” team formed by the National Traffic Law Center

Implications for Employers?

How do employers prepare to integrate these changes into their organization’s roadway safety process?

Session Moderators: 
NETS Board of Directors

4:30 pm