Peter W Jones MInstP
Flawed Police Road Crash Investigations
I should have previously pointed out that in my experience I have found Police and other Road Traffic Accident Investigators very keen to continually upgrade their professional skills, even when they have been doing the job for many years. In addition, a small group of even harder working Investigators help to run the independent ITAI.
This is why I feel confident that the existing Investigators will rectify the faults identified by the RAC and possibly render the proposed additional Road Accident Investigation Authority unnecessary, particularly if the current investigators are reinforced by new members with additional qualifications as I have explained in my original post.
See also www.20six.co.uk/roadtrafficaccidents
and www.caravanaccidents3.wordpress.com
As it has now become more difficult to locate the relevant RAC document I have copied same from their Foundation internet site and pasted it in below.
The following RAC press release of 14/05/09 was copied from their Foundation internet site with some difficulty.
DETAILS OF RAC REPORT
PROF GLAISTER’s CV AT END OF RAC REPORT
ROAD ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION
In the last eleven years 337 people have died in UK air accidents.
In the same period 114 have died in train accidents.
And 53 people have been killed in UK territorial waters or on UK registered vessels.
For each of these accidents there was provision for an exhaustive inquiry by the Air, Rail or Marine Accident Investigation Branches.
Yet astonishingly, when it comes to accidents on the nation’s roads – where almost 36,781 people died over the same span of time – there is no provision for a similar body to uncover what happened and then make safety recommendations to prevent the same type of thing reoccurring
Which means many of the deaths might have been avoided.
Today, to coincide with its publication of ‘Transport Safety: Is The Law An Ass?’ by Dr Chris Elliott, the RAC Foundation is calling for a fundamental review into the way road accidents are investigated.
The Foundation’s director Professor Stephen Glaister said, “Historically road accidents are analysed by individual police forces with the emphasis placed on finding out if anyone has broken the law. Identifying the underlying causes of crashes seems to be of secondary importance.”
“We’ve been locking up drivers for a century and yet motorists still die in their thousands on the roads each year. The focus on solely penalising individuals rather than also identifying systemic safety failings is a serious flaw in current transport policy. Road safety should be driven by prevention as well as punishment.”
Professor Glaister continued, “If a lorry smashes into a queue of stationary traffic killing several people attention is concentrated on why the driver failed to spot the obstacle ahead. Whilst this is important, perhaps the bigger questions are; why was the traffic at a standstill in the first place, and how can vehicles be kept moving in the future to avoid repetitions?”
Dr Elliott said, “In 1972 the groundbreaking Robens report revolutionised workplace safety and led to the creation of a coherent and rational legal structure that has saved hundreds of lives. It is time to have a similar root and branch review of the way transport safety policy is implemented and co-ordinated. We have to challenge the global trend towards
creation of a coherent and rational legal structure that has saved hundreds of lives. It is time to have a similar root and branch review of the way transport safety policy is implemented and co-ordinated. We have to challenge the global trend towards criminalising accidents and their investigation.”
Professor Stephen Glaister
CURRENT TEACHING
Engineering Economics and Management (for third year M Eng.)
Transport and its Context (for MSc in Transport Studies)
Transport Infrastructure Project Management (for MSc in Transport Studies)
Railway Policy, Management and Engineering (for MSc in Transport Studies)
Microeconomics (for MSc in Business Management)
Urban Infrastructure and Development (visiting lecture, Cities Programme, London
School of Economics)
EDUCATION
PhD “Aspects of Optimum Transport Pricing: Theoretical and Empirical
Investigations”, University of London, 1976.
MSc. Econometrics, The London School of Economics, 1968.
BA (2(i)) Mathematical Economics, U
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CURRICULUM VITAE
(at January 2005)
STEPHEN GLAISTER CBE FICE PhD
DOB: 21 June 1946
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor of Transport and Infrastructure, Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Imperial College London, 1998 –
Director, Railway Technology Strategy Centre, Imperial College London, 1998 -
Associate, LSE London, 1999 –
Transport for London, Board member, July 2000 –
Vice Chair of the Underground Advisory Panel, 2003 –
Member, Surface Panel, Finance Panel, 2000 –
Member Finance Committee 2000 -
Member, Rail Panel, 2000 – 2003.
Member, Steering Group for Road Pricing Feasibility Study, Department for
Transport, 2003 – 04
Advisor to Buses sub-group, Commission for Integrated Transport, 1999 – 2003.
Economic Advisor and non-executive member of advisory board, the Rail Regulator,
1993 – 2001
London Regional Transport, non-executive Board member, 1984 – 93
Main Board
Tendered Bus Division Board
Victoria Coach Station Board
Corporate Strategy Group
Fares Revenues Group
Property Board
Economic Advisor, Office of Gas Supply, 1996 – 2002
Member, of independent Review of Road Charging Options for London (ROCOL)
Working Group (Government Office for London) July 1998 – March 2000.
Economic advisor British Rail Policy Unit and InterCity strategy 1980 -1993
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Trustee, Rees Jeffreys Road Fund, 1979 -
Member, Advisory Committee, Centre for the Study of Regulated Industries 1999 -
Member, London First Transport Initiative, 1995 – 2002
Member, Central London Partnership Advisory Group, 1997 – 2002
Specialist Adviser, Parliamentary Select Committee on Transport, 1981 – 83, 1988 -
90.
Member of the Independent Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment (the
Leitch Committee), 1977 – 1981.
Managing Editor,
Journal of Transport Economics and Policy
, 1987 – 1999Editor,
Economica
, 1979 – 1982.Member, Joint Science Research Council/Social Science Research Council Transport
Committee, 1978 – 80.
CBE for services to public transport, 1998.
Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, 2004.
Previous academic career
Cassel Reader in Economic Geography with special reference to Transport,
London School of Economics, 1994 – 1998
Cassel Reader in Economics with special reference to Transport,
London School of Economics, 1978 – 1994
Chairman, LSE Academic Studies Committee, 1991 – 93.
Lecturer in Economics, London School of Economics, 1977 – 78.
Rees Jeffreys Research Fellow in the Social and Environmental Aspects of the
Development of Roads and Road Transport, LSE 1974 – 77.
Lecturer in Economics, London School of Economics, 1969 – 74.
Teaching Assistant, London School of Economics, 1968 – 69.
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BOOKS
British Rail Privatisation – Competition destroyed by Politics
, Centre for RegulatedIndustries, Occasional Paper 23, Bath , 2004.
Pricing Our Roads: Vision and Reality,
(with D. Graham), Institute for EconomicAffairs, August 2004.
Investing in Cities
, Development Securities, April 2004.
Treasurehouse and Powerhouse,
(with T. Travers), Natural History Museum, 2004.
Streets Ahead: safe and liveable streets for children
(with Grayling T, Hallam K, GrahamDJ, Anderson R) IPPR, 2002: London. ISBN 1- 86030-207-6
A Reassessment of the Economic case for CrossRail
, (with D. Graham, R. Anderson andT. Travers), Corporation of London, February 2001.
The effect of fuel prices on motorists
(with Dan Graham), Automobile Association,September 2000.
Capital Asset. London’s healthy contribution to jobs and services
(with D Graham and EHoskins) NHS London Region, June 2000.
A New Fares Contract for London
, (With T. Grayling), Institute for Public PolicyResearch, January 2000. ISBN 1 86030 100 2
Getting Partnerships Going: public private partnerships in transport
with R. Scanlon andT. Travers), Institute for Public Policy Research, April 2000. ISBN 1 86030 126 6.
Transport Policy in Britain
(with June Burnham, Handley Stevens and Tony Travers),Macmillan, December 1998, ISBN 0-333-66124-9. Second edition in preparation.
Who Spends What on Motoring in the UK?
(With Dan Graham). AutomobileAssociation, December 1996, ISBN 0 75530 0931 5
London’s size and diversity: the advantages in a competitive world
(with Tony Travers andothers), Corporation of London, January 1996, ISBN 0 7530 0444 5.
London Bus Tendering
(with D Kennedy and T Travers), Greater London Group,March 1995. ISBN 0 7530 2884.
An infrastructure fund for London
(with Tony Travers), Greater London Group, LSE,December 1994. ISBN 0 7530 2280.
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Tolls and Shadow Tolls
(with Tony Travers), Automobile Association, April 1994.ISBN 0 7530 2787
Cost Benefit Analysis,
(with R Layard), Cambridge University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-521-46674-1
Meeting the Transport Needs of the City
, with Tony Travers, City Research Project,Corporation of London, March 1993. ISBN 0 7530 2930
New Directions for British Railways? The Political Economy of Privatisation and Regulation
(with Tony Travers), IEA, June 1993. ISBN 0 225 36321 4
Transport Options for London
, (editor and part-author), Greater London Group, 1991.ISBN 0 85328 134 3
Transport Subsidy
, (editor and part-author), Policy Journals, 1987.
Mathematical Methods for Economists
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Application of Social Cost Benefit Analysis to London Transport Policies
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Urban Public Transport Subsidies: an Economic Assessment of Value for Money
,Department of Transport, 1982.
Public Control of the Bus and Coach Industry
, (with C.M. Mulley), Gower Press, 1983.
Fundamentals of Transport Economics
, Blackwell, 1981. ISBN 0-631-12776-3
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Public policy
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Applied Economics
, Vol37, pp19-28, January 2005.
“The effects of area deprivation on the incidence of child and adult pedestrian
casualties in England” (with D. J. Graham and Richard Anderson),
Accident Analysisand Prevention
, 37, 125-135, 2005.“The future of the Private Finance Initiative and its Optimal Scope”, in
The future ofthe Private Finance Initiative
(Ann Rossiter, ed), Social Market Foundation, November2004, ISBN 1-904899-14-5.
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“Charging for Roads: The Solution to Congestion”,
Public Management and PolicyAssociation Review
, May 2004.”Spatial variation in road pedestrian casualties: the role of urban scale, density and
land use mix” (with DJ Graham),
Urban Studies
Vol 40, no 8 1591-1607, July 2003.”Economies of scale and density in urban rail transport: effects on productivity”
(with D. Graham, A. Couto, W. E. Adeney)
Transportation Research Part E: Logisticsand Transportation Review
Volume 39, Issue 6 , November 2003.
Transport Pricing and Investment in England
(with D. Graham), Summary Report andTechnical Report, Independent Transport Commission, June 2003,
(http://www.cts.cv.imperial.ac.uk/html/ResearchActivities/publicationDetails.asp
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Oxford Review of Economic Policy
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Colin Robinson (ed), 2003,Edward Elgar, (Cheltenham) , ISBN 1-84376-230-7.
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Graham and R. Anderson), Institute for Public Policy Research, 2002.
“The London Underground Arbiter”,
the Utilities Journal
, June 2002.”Crossing London: overcoming the obstacles to CrossRail”, (with Tony Travers),
Public Money and Management
, Vol. 21, no. 4, October-December 2001. Reprinted in
Turning the Corner? A reader in Contemporary Transport Policy
, Francis Terry (ed),Blackwell, 2004, ISBN 1-4051-1915-2
“Pricing, Investment and Taxation of Transport and Travel”, (with Dan Graham)
Independent Transport Commission, September 2001.
“Transport policy, control and value for money: the next way? “, NIERC, March 2001.
“Transport” in
A London-New York Study
, (ed R. Scanlon), Corporation of London,June 2000.
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“Getting Partnerships Going: public private partnerships in transport” with R.
Scanlon and T. Travers),
Public Policy and Administration
, Vol. 15, no. 4, Winter 2000.”Integrated Transport: a Future for Rail?”, in Regulating Utilities: a New Era? M. E.
Beesley (ed), IEA and London Business School, Readings 49, December 1999 . ISBN
0 255 36427 X
“Predict, but don’t provide? “, New
Economy
, Autumn 1999.”Can the SRA make a case for the Railways?”, Railway Forum, July 1999.
“Past abuses and future used of private finance and public-private partnerships in
transport “,
Public Money and Management, July 1999. Reprinted in
Turning theCorner? A reader in Contemporary Transport Policy
, Francis Terry (ed), Blackwell, 2004,ISBN 1-4051-1915-2
“Observations on the New Approach to the Appraisal of Road Projects”,
the Journal ofTransport Economics and Policy
, May 1999.”The Way Out: An alternative approach to the future of the Underground” (with R.
Scanlon and T. Travers), LSE London discussion paper no 1, ISSN 0 7530 1295 2, 20
March 1999.
“A Fourth Way for the Underground?” (with R. Scanlon and T. Travers), Greater
London Group, June 1998, ISBN 0 7530 1239 1.
“The Role of Economic Advisors of Regulators”, The Economic Development
Institute, World Bank, 1998.
“Virtue out of Necessity: Practical Pricing of Traffic in Towns”, Social Market
Foundation, March 1998.
“Transport and the London Mayor”, (with T. Travers), Greater London Group,
December 1997, ISBN 0 7530 1212 X
“Governing the Underground: Funding, Management and Democracy for London’s
Tube” (with T. Travers), Centre for Regulated Industries, 1997. ISBN 0 85299 809 0
“Trading in Gas: Market Developments and Needs” ME Beesley (ed) Regulating
Utilities: broadening the debate, IEA Readings 46, 1997, ISBN 0 255 36406 7
“Regulation and Privatisation in Transport”, in G. De Rus and C A Nash (eds.),
Recent Developments in Transport Economics, Ashgate, 1997. ISBN 1 85972 500 7.
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“Incentives in Natural Monopoly: the Case of Water” in Beesley (ed), Regulating
Utilities: a Time for Change? IEA, 1996, ISBN 0 255 36381 8
“The New Rail Industry 1994/95″
CRI Regulatory Review
, CRI, 1995.”Western experience in regulating the railway industry”, OECD, 1995
“Is there an Argument for Integration?”, in
An Integrated Transport Policy: How can itbe achieved in a market economy?,
Major Projects Association, Oxford. 1994″Rail: Characteristics of the Industry and the Network – the Impact on Franchising
and Regulation”, in
Franchising Network Services
, Centre for the Study of RegulatedIndustries, 1993
“Regulation Through Output Related Profits Tax”,
Journal of Industrial Economics
.March 1987.
“Information for Regulating: the Case of Taxis”, (with M.E. Beesley),
EconomicJournal
, September 1983. Reprinted in Herbert Mohring’s International Library ofCritical Writings in Economics no 34.
“Bus Deregulation in the United Kingdom”, in
Regulatory Reform in Transport
(Carbajo ed) The World Bank, 1993.
“UK Bus Deregulation: the Reasons and the Experience”,
Investigaciones Economicas
,May 1991.
Workshop Chairman’s report on “The bidding process” and “Bidding for tendered
bus routes in London”, (with M.E. Beesley),
Transportation Planning and Technology
Vol. 15, 1991.
“Economic Policy for Transport”, with D. Starkie and D. Thompson,
the OxfordReview of Economic Policy
, Vol.6 No.2 Summer 1990. Reprinted in Japanese.“Competition on an Urban Bus Route”,
Journal of Transport Economics and Policy
,January 1985.
“Bus Deregulation, Competition and Vehicle Size”
Journal of Transport Economics andPolicy
, May 1986.”Deregulating the Bus Industry”, and “Deregulating the Bus Industry: a Reply” (with
M.E. Beesley
) Transport Reviews
, April 1985 and July 1985.“Some proposals for the de-regulation of Transport Services in London”,
Zeitschriftfur Nationalokonomie
, Supplementum 2, 1982.
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Public and applied economics.
“A review of road traffic demand elasticity estimates” (with DJ Graham),
TransportReviews
, (in press).
Review of income and price elasticities of demand for road traffic
. (with DJ Graham) Reportto the Department for Transport, DfT, 2002: London.
“The demand for automobile fuel: a survey of elasticities” (with DJ Graham),
Journalof Transport Economics and Policy
, 36, 1-26, 2002.“The Economic Assessment of local Transport Subsidies in Large Cities”, in
Any MoreFares
?, (T. Grayling ed.), Institute for Public Policy Research, February 2001, ISBN 186030 134 7.
“Motorists and Petrol Price Charges” (with Dan Graham),
The Utilities Journal
,January, 2001.
“Transport and Health in London” (with D Graham and E Hoskins) , NHS London
Region. October 1999. www.doh.gov.uk/London/transport.pdf
“A business-financed infrastructure fund for transport”, (with Tony Travers)
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, July 1995″London Regional Transport” in London Government Handbook, Greater London
Group, (Cassell, 1988).
“The Department of Transport” in “The public expenditure process”, David Heald
and Richard Rose (editors), Public Finance Foundation, 1987.
“The Allocation of Urban Public Transport Subsidy” in LeGrand and Robinson (eds).
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, Allen and Unwin, 1984.”Main Line Electrification, Assessment of the Key Issues”, Appendix B to the Second
Report from the Transport Committee, 1981-82, House of Commons, HC317.
“Passenger and Freight Transport in the United Kingdom”, in Comparative Studies
of Service Industries Between Japan and Britain,
Kikai Shinko Kyokai Keizai Kenkynsho
,Tokyo and Kansai Economic Research Centre, Osaka, 1981.
“Maximisation of Passenger-Miles in Theory and Practice”, (with J. J. Collings),
Journal of Transport Economics and Policy
, September 1978, reprinted in HerbertMohring’s International Library of Critical Writings in Economics no 34.
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“An Integrated Fares Policy for Transport in London”, (with D.L. Lewis),
Journal ofPublic Economics
, June 1978. Reprinted in Transport Economics: Selected Readings,Oum et al (eds), Korea Research Foundation, 1995.
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Journal of Transport Economics andPolicy
, May 1976.“Transport Pricing Policies and Efficient Urban Growth
“, Journal of Public Economics
,February 1976.
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Urban Studies
,1975.
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Group, 1999.
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Economic Journal
,December 1974. Reprinted in
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,C.B. Blankart und M. Faber (ed), 1982.
“On the Estimation of Disaggregate Welfare Losses with an Application to Price
Distortions in Urban Transport”.
American Economic Review, September 1979.
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“, Journal of Transport Economics andPolicy
, May 1983.”Advertising Policy and Returns to Scale in Markets where Information is Passed
Between Individuals”,
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, May 1974.“Review article: Urban Travel Demand by Domenich & McFadden”,
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, April, 1977.
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REPORTS
“Bus Tendering”, (Chairman) Report of a sub-committee of LRT Board, February
1990.
“Bus Tendering” (a policy review), report to the LRT Board, November 1989.
Report of the Property Privatisation Working Party (Chairman) to L.R.T. Property
Board, 1989.
“Financing the Central London Rail Study”, report to the London Regional Transport
Board, February 1989.
“Raising finance: the future of public transport subsidy”, (with K. Gwilliam), paper
to Holly Royde Conference, November 1988.
“Analysis of Bids for London Regional Transport’s Contracted Bus Services” (with
M.E. Beesley), Paper to London Regional Transport, 1987.
“Vulnerability of London Buses Ltd. Services Under Deregulation” (with M.E.
Beesley), Paper to London Regional Transport, 1987.
“Intercity Prices, Costs and Profits”, Report to the British Railways Board, 1987.
“Deregulation, Competition and Bus Size”, Report to the Department of Transport,
1985.
“Social Cost Benefit Analysis: Applications to London Transport Policies”, with M.E.
Beesley in conjunction with Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners. Report (in two
volumes) London Transport Executive, 1980.
“Forecasting Traffic on Trunk Roads: A Report on the Regional Highway Traffic
Model Project”, HMSO, 1979 (Signatory).
“Trunk Road Proposals – A Comprehensive Framework for Appraisal”, HMSO, 1979.
(Signatory).
“Report of the Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment”, HMSO, 1977
(Signatory).
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