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TRL will bring together road-safety researchers, data scientists and healthcare professionals in London on 16 September 2025 to explore how linking anonymised health records with collision data can accelerate progress toward Vision Zero. The half-day event will showcase data-driven safety interventions, including demonstrations and a national collision investigation framework developed with the Department for Transport.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
TRL is staging a landmark half\u2011day event in London that brings road safety researchers, data scientists and healthcare professionals together to explore how smarter use of data can move us closer to Vision Zero\u2014the aim of eliminating deaths and serious injuries on our roads. The gathering, titled Towards Zero: Smart Data, Safer Roads, is set to unfold at the Smart Mobility Living Lab in London on 16 September 2025 and will showcase pioneering data\u2011led safety initiatives, including projects that marry health data with collision records and a national collision investigation framework delivered in partnership with the Department for Transport. Speakers from TRL, Imperial College London, University Hospital Southampton and other leading institutions will outline the latest thinking and trial new approaches to prevent crashes and injuries. According to the TRL release and its public communications, the event will also highlight the evolving PRANA network and data\u2011integration efforts that underpin safer post\u2011crash responses. The half\u2011day programme will be punctuated by demonstrations and live demonstrations of data\u2011driven safety interventions, with opportunities to network with academics, policymakers and industry peers. (According to the lead TRL\u2011described event communications, and as explained in the related data\u2011integration context provided by Imperial College London\u2019s RTI\u2011AID work.) <\/p>\n
The venue and facility underpinning the event are anchored in London\u2019s Smart Mobility Living Lab (SMLL), TRL\u2019s urban testbed that straddles public and private roads across Greenwich and the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. SMLL exists to test and validate mobility technologies in real, live traffic, with a focus on safety, reliability and accessibility. It operates as a TRL company and collaborates with DG Cities and the London Legacy Development Corporation to provide practical technical support for testing, simulating and refining new transport concepts, enabling prototype deployment in an urban setting and accelerating data\u2011driven testing and collaboration. The event\u2019s framing aligns with SMLL\u2019s mission to accelerate safer, cleaner and more accessible transport through real\u2011world testing and cross\u2011sector collaboration. Data\u2011driven testing efforts linked to the event are further reinforced by TRL\u2019s broader data initiatives, including the Data Sustains Life project, a world\u2011first programme that links anonymised health records with road\u2011crash data to illuminate how injuries unfold and how emergency care can be improved. (Information about SMLL from its London site; context on data\u2011driven safety initiatives from TRL\u2019s Data Sustains Life announcement and PRANA network.) <\/p>\n
In addition to the event\u2019s immediate discussions, the day will be informed by ongoing research into how linked health and collision data can transform safety policy and practice. Imperial College London researchers, in collaboration with TRL, have demonstrated that crash dynamics\u2014such as changes in speed, impact direction and helmet use\u2014strongly influence brain injury severity, a finding drawn from analysis of large collision datasets including RAIDS and STATS19. The work highlights how automated identification of high\u2011risk crashes could trim response times and tailor care for traumatic brain injuries, a line of inquiry that underpins the event\u2019s data\u2011driven safety agenda. The RAIDS programme, managed by TRL for the Department for Transport, provides in\u2011depth scene investigations and retrospective injury analyses to understand how crashes occur and how injuries develop, with data protection and privacy safeguards in place. Officials emphasise that the programme\u2019s findings feed into vehicle safety design, road infrastructure improvements and post\u2011crash care improvements, while maintaining stringent data security and anonymisation. (Cited sources include Imperial College London\u2019s ROAD TRAFFIC INJURY and RTI\u2011AID work, Imperial\u2019s Brain Communications findings, and government details on RAIDS.)<\/p>\n
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