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Published: 11 April 2022
By Chris Haycock

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(Presentations and Recordings) PACTS Conference 2022Safe System: from principle to practice. PACTS organised an online conference Safe System: from principles to practice. It was designed to help road safety practitioners, at national... The post (Presentations and Recordings) PACTS Conference 2022 – Safe System: from principle to practice. appeared first on PACTS. (Transport Wales)

The safety of private e-scooters in the UKPACTS research In parallel with the launch of public, regulated trials of e-scooters across England, private, and currently illegal, e-scooter use on... The post The safety of private e-scooters in the UK – PACTS research appeared first on PACTS. (Transport Wales)

A cleaner, fairer, safer future Climate change is no longer a distant threat.  As we experience extreme weather events of increasing ferocity and frequency, we can hear its impacts knocking ever more loudly and insistently on our door. Have we heard the wake-up call?  COP26 was a partial success in that it kept the goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius alive. … (Transport Wales)

ITC Spring Discussion Evening The ITC’s Spring Discussion Evening  will be held as an online event on Thursday 7th April from 17:00 to 18:45. The topic to be debated will be ‘How can transport infrastructure make a positive contribution to the environment?’and the webinar will involve presentations from a guest panel followed by questions. We are delighted that the event will be […] (Transport Wales)

We must make the case for a better life The latest IPCC report has been described as ‘an atlas of human suffering’. Climate impacts are worse than predicted.  Extreme weather events are accelerating. No region is safe. Any further delay in concerted global action will miss a brief and rapidly closing window to secure a livable future. The report’s publication last week would have… (Transport Wales)