[Policy] One Meter Rule Webinar and Report from Queensland

[Mark Cohoe]

Whoops, totally correct Bill. Not sure how I messed that up as I've viewed
TREC webinars in the past. Oh well, the actual time makes it viewable for
me!

Mark

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 11:16 PM, Bill Newman <bill.newman at plumdee.ca>
wrote:

> This is sponsored by Portland U and is at 12:00 PDT, 14:00 CDT.  This
> would be 29:00 Brisbane time, aka 05:00 Sat.
> --Bill
>
> Sent from Blue <http://www.bluemail.me/r?b=10777>
> On Sep 27, 2017, at 14:26, Mark Cohoe <mark.e.cohoe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> Sorry that this is a bit last moment, but I just got around to reviewing
>> the timing of this webinar from Austrailia on a pilot study of 1m passing
>> legislation in Queensland, Austrailia that Beth McKecknie from Green Action
>> Centre had forwarded to me.
>>
>> For those wondering about the timeshift. 12 noon Friday in Brisbane is
>> 9pn Thursday Winnipeg time.
>>
>> I haven't had much of a chance to review the report that the webinar is
>> based on (it's 189 pages), but it's available here
>> <https://eprints.qut.edu.au/94655/1/Final_Report_TMR_170316.pdf>. The
>> discussion starts on page 67, conclusions are on page 70. They had problems
>> with before/after analysis, and hadn't had time to review collision data
>> (they might update this in the webinar), although a preliminary result
>> shows a drop in collisions state wide (which they can't attribute to this
>> or any other policy/change).
>>
>> Thought you and others involved in the 1 metre campaign might be
>> interested in this webinar from Australia:
>>
>> http://trec.pdx.edu/events/professional-development/Seminar-Haworth
>>
>> *LIVESTREAM ONLINE:* Click here
>> <https://portlandstate.qualtrics.com//SE/?SID=SV_5BZZOAQqOu8353f> on the
>> day of the seminar to stream it live
>>
>> This presentation will begin with an overview of the activities of the Centre
>> for Accident Research and Road Safety-Queensland
>> <https://research.qut.edu.au/carrsq/>. Then a number of bicycle safety
>> research projects will be discussed, with a particular focus on recent
>> and current projects that seek to examine the factors influencing passing
>> distances left by motor vehicles and the effectiveness of one-metre
>> (3-foot) laws.
>>
>> One of the other features of the paper is a long list of references that
>> we may find useful.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
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