A very warm welcome to the latest edition of the podcast series from Project EDWARD - my role in the Safe System - that will be running through 2024. This time we welcome a great friend of Project EDWARD, Terry Cook: a driving instructor who runs the Instructor Podcast and the Five Minute Theory Test.

Hello and welcome to the January 2024 edition of the Project Edward Podcast Series. The theme continues from last year as we invite guests to set out their own role in the safe system. My name is James Luckhurst and in this edition will be hearing from the winner of the Premier 2022 Prince Michael International Road Safety Award Professor Tim Nutbeam, who's director of the Exit Project, which has been revolutionizing extrication techniques.

Tim will be talking to us about how the project is bedded in where there's been resistance and how its key points can be replicated elsewhere in the world. First, though, we head to South Wales police headquarters to catch up with what is without exaggeration being the principality's hot road safety topic of 2023. The default 20 mile an hour speed limit introduction on restricted roads.

So let's meet two guests ready to discuss the value they think it brings and some other current matters as well. The management. Travis Lamb, currently the Deputy Chief Constable for South Wales Police and my former role was head of ops, which basically meant I looked after all things that supported policing in particular, including road policing and road safety.

So what would you say was your role in the safe system? My role is to set a strategy for how policing will work across Wales, to work with the four forces, our partners and very importantly, our GOSAFE team to create all of the right enablers, the right vision and the right resourcing to tackle that poor driver behavior, to create an environment where the roads are a safe place to be and to encourage education and an ultimately were necessary, then to ensure enforcement is in place.

But it's about basically having a strategy and a vision, working with our partners and making the roads safe to me. I am Teresa Ciano. I'm the partnership manager for Safe. I also chair Road Safety Wales and I'm a non-executive director and trustee of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety. So my role in NZ system is to administer offenses through use of technology in the roads that speed in mobile phones, not where you sit, but also Operation SNAP, which is where we take media footage from the public and they can use that to report driving offenses that they witness to us.

Welcome to the Project EDWARD Podcast series for 2023. My role in the Safe system and we're now at episode eight. We're very pleased to welcome Lisa Townsend, Surrey's Police and Crime Commissioner, who leads on Roads policing for the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners. Darren Lindsey caught up with Lisa recently for a conversation all about her work and her role in the safe system.

Hello and welcome to episode seven of the Project. Edward 2023 Podcast with me, James Luckhurst. The title of the podcast season is My Role in the Safe System. And this week we're in the esteemed company of two leaders from the world of law enforcement. Joy Allen, Police and Crime Commissioner for Durham and the National Deputy Lead for Roads Policing and Jo Shiner, Chief Constable of Sussex and the National Police Chiefs Council lead for roads policing.

Welcome to episode six of the Project EDWARD 2023 podcast. With me, James Luckhurst. The title of the podcast is My Role in the Safe System, and for this week's conversation, I've made the journey to the North East to catch up with someone whose own role in the safe system really only comes into play when something catastrophic has happened.

Hello and welcome to episode five of the project EDWARD 2023 Podcast. My role in the Safe system. This week our reporter is Darren Lindsey and he's in conversation with Mark Cartwright from National Highways for a discussion on some of the unique challenges faced by truck and van drivers on the Strategic Road Network and a look at what's being done to improve levels of safety, compliance and driver well-being.

Darren met Mark at the recent Fleet Operators Recognition Scheme (FORS) Conference in Birmingham, first asking him about the benefits of technology in supporting drivers.

Hello and welcome to episode four of the Project EDWARD 2023 Podcast. My role in the Safe system with me, James Luckhurst. In this program we catch up with Chris Spinks, Managing Director of Westcotec, for a chat about the best ways of utilizing technology to influence driver behaviour. But first, as it's mid-November, everyone in the road safety sector will be preparing to embrace one of the biggest happenings in the calendar Road Safety Week.

It's organised by Brake, and just a few days ago I had the opportunity to find out a bit more from Lucy Straker the campaigns manager at Brake, the Road Safety Charity.

Hello and welcome to episode three of the Project EDWARD 2023 Podcast. My role in the Safe System. My name is James Luckhurst and today I'm in Liverpool with Dr. Adam Snow from Liverpool, John Moores University. Adam is going to be reflecting on the penalty points system for drivers, the totting up rules and whether anything has changed in terms of reported abuse of the exceptional hardship plea opportunity.

We'll also be considering the latest thinking on distractions in the company of Dr. George Yanis, who's a professor in traffic and safety engineering and director of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering at the School of Civil Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens.

In this episode, join Project EDWARD at the Highways UK Exhibition in Birmingham where Max Sugarman from the Intelligent Transport Systems (UK) connects with industry experts Vivi Michalaki of National Highways, Geoff Collins of Acusensus and Rodney Moffat of Amey. Together, they explore the pivotal role technology plays in enhancing road safety for everyone. Tune in to discover how these innovators are shaping the future of safer roads through cutting-edge solutions.

Welcome to the autumn 2023 series of the Project Edward podcast. My name is James Luckhurst and every week for the next couple of months I'm going to be hearing from all sorts of people relating to their role in the Safe System. Today we're starting in the middle of the countryside at Hartshill Hays country park in Warwickshire. In a moment, I'm going to be heading to the new memorial to road traffic victims, which was unveiled by Sharron Huddleston earlier in the summer. But before meeting Sharron, let's familiarise ourselves with a few people whose efforts and energy have ensured that this memorial could come into existence. It's a wet day, but hopefully no one will be put off by the rain.