This virtual meeting will continue the RSTF’s focus on traffic safety culture, looking at the role of the media in particular. Each RSTF meeting focuses on a critical road safety issue facing the Delaware Valley region. In 2020, the RSTF is dedicating our four meetings to the issue of changing traffic safety culture in the region. This meeting will feature presentations on the role of the media in shaping traffic safety culture and how transportation safety professionals can work with the media to shift the traffic safety culture in the region. Throughout the meeting, RSTF members will work to brainstorm ways to shift the traffic safety culture through media in the region.
Established in September 2005, the Regional Safety Task Force brings together a multi-disciplinary group of professionals to identify safety goals, strategies and resources. The goal of the Task Force is to build and maintain effective partnerships with the purpose of reaching zero casualties from crashes in the region.
1. Welcome and Introductions
2. Featured Presentation: Traffic Safety Culture and the Media
- Kelcie Ralph, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Rutgers University
3. Local Response Panel
- Matthew Skoufalos, NJ PEN
- Patricia Madej, Philadelphia Inquirer
- Captain Mark Overwise, Philadelphia Police Department
RSTF Goal: To reduce roadway crashes and eliminate serious injuries and fatalities from crashes in the Delaware Valley