The financial support comes from the Road Safety Trust
The RAC Foundation has received a grant of £100,000 from the Road Safety Trust to work with the transport safety and behaviour consultancy Agilysis to explore the links between deprivation and vehicle technologies.
Through matching multiple datasets the project will carry out a complete analysis of vehicle safety technologies fitted to a large sample of cars involved in recorded collisions between 2022-2024.
The dataset, together with neighbourhood characteristics will be reviewed and a report produced analysing and understanding the links between vehicle safety features and deprivation.
The data processes used to carry out the analysis will be published as open-source data to allow repeated use of the innovation, and the datasets will be available to transport researchers.
Finally, the project will deliver a consumer guide on vehicle technology safety specifically aimed at supporting buying decisions for used vehicles.
The RAC Foundation is one of six successful bids announced today. Between them they will share a total grant pot of £1.1 million.
The other five organisations are:
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Nottingham Trent University (in collaboration with Surewise insurers) – Motorised Mobility Devices: Incidents, Near Misses and Safety
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Nottingham Trent University (in collaboration with the Farm Safety Foundation, National Federation of Young Farmers Clubs and Esitu) – Tractor Driver Training: Creating a High-Performance VR Course for Agricultural Colleges
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University of Leeds (in collaboration with Leeds City Council, the National Autism Society and others) – Autistic Children Matter: Addressing Road Crossing Challenges from Multiple Perspectives
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University of Leeds (in collaboration with Leeds City Council and West Yorkshire Combined Authority) – e-SAFE: Equity, Social Determinants, Anti-social Behaviour and Future E-Mobility
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University of Oxford (in collaboration with Swindon SEND Families Voice, Living Streets, and the Council for Disabled Children) – Safe-SEND: Mapping Road Safety Challenges to Independent Mobility for Children with SEND
Ruth Purdie, CEO of The Road Safety Trust, said:
“These new grants reflect our growing understanding that road danger is not experienced by all members of society equally. By funding projects that tackle inequalities our intention is to shape a safer, fairer system for everyone.”
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Contact:
Philip Gomm – Head of External Communications – RAC Foundation
[email protected] | 07711 776448
Notes to editors:
The RAC Foundation is a transport policy and research organisation which explores the economic, mobility, safety and environmental issues relating to roads and their users.
The Foundation publishes independent and authoritative research with which it promotes informed debate and advocates policy in the interest of the responsible motorist. For more information visit www.racfoundation.org
About the Road Safety Trust:
“The Road Safety Trust is an independent grant-giving trust supporting projects and research that make UK roads safer for all road users – pedestrians, cyclists, mobility scooter users, car drivers, lorry and van drivers, and motorcyclists.
“We support a variety of road safety initiatives through grants, with funding available towards projects that meet our grant criteria. Grants are available for up to two or three years, and these can range from £10,000 up to £500,000 depending on the funding round.
“The Road Safety Trust owns a wholly-owned trading subsidiary, UKROEd. This is a not-for-profit company that carries out the management and administration of the National Driver Offender Retraining Scheme (NDORS). When someone goes on a driver awareness course, a small part of their fee comes to UKROEd to help cover the costs of operating the Scheme.
“Any surplus from UKROEd’s activity is donated to the Road Safety Trust at the end of the financial year. This enables us to carry out our grant-making programme. UKROEd’s education of road offenders also helps the charity meets its objectives and serves as primary purpose trading.”