
“We had to turn people away,” says coordinator Geni Bahar of the sixth and largest meeting to date of the Ontario Road Safety Forum (ORSF) October 17, 2019. With 80 registered attendees, the room capacity of GB202 was at its limit.
Seventeen presentations were heard in five broad research areas:
- Crash Causation, Countermeasures, and Policy Implications
- Who is Doing What? Ongoing Efforts
- Fitness to Drive
- Active Transportation, Public Health, and Road Safety
- Winter Maintenance and Road Safety
See the day’s agenda and view several of the presentation files posted with permission of presenters.

Presenters at the 6th Ontario Road Safety Forum, October 17, 2019. (L-R) Keagan Gartz, Geni Bahar, Nancy Smith Lea, Brenda Vrkljan, Erica Weir, Missy Rudin-Brown, Alison Smiley, Tom Smahel, Tavia Chow, Soroush Salek, Madiha Javed, Evelyn Vingilis, Sheyda Saneinejad, Sean Nix, David Shinar, Sina Azizisoldouz, Valerie Smith, Taimur Usman, Sarah Plonka, Liraz Fridman, Amit Arora, Jessica Keung. Not pictured: Ahmad Mohammadi, Bhagwant PersaudA first-ever networking event for the Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals (CARSP) Young Professional Committee took place following the meeting.
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