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June 3, 2026

2025 Road Casualty Data | What the Diverging Trends Mean for Safe System Delivery

2025 road casualty data shows falling deaths but rising serious injuries, highlighting motorcyclists, ageing risk and the need for Safe System focus.

May 21, 2026

How realistic is a 65% casualty reduction by 2035?

Is a 65% reduction in road casualties by 2035 realistic? The T‑Junction podcast explores UK road safety targets, Safe System delivery, and what must change.

April 23, 2026

Challenging Assumptions in Road Safety: What IRTAD 2026 Revealed About Data, AI, and Policy

The IRTAD 2026 conference highlighted a major shift in road safety practice, driven by advances in AI, connected vehicle data, and international collaboration. From explainable machine learning models delivering significant gains in fatality reduction to critical insights on data bias and ethical governance, the field is moving beyond prediction toward transparent, proactive systems. At the same time, new evidence on under-reporting, inequality, and policy effectiveness is reshaping how countries design and evaluate road safety strategies globally.

April 20, 2026

IRTAD 2026: From Reactive Analysis to Proactive Road Safety

The 2026 IRTAD Conference in Athens brought together 141 research papers under the theme "Better Road Safety Data for Better Safety Performance." The role of international road safety data in local best practice, a clear message emerged: the road safety community is fundamentally shifting from reactive collision analysis toward proactive risk assessment. This transformation, evident across presentations from Agilysis colleagues and international partners, represents both the field's greatest opportunity and its most complex challenge.

March 25, 2026

Agilysis shortlisted for CIHT Health and Safety Award with Transport Scotland

We’re proud to share that Agilysis, working in partnership with Transport Scotland, has been shortlisted for a CIHT Health and Safety Award for our work building Safe System capacity in Scotland.

March 5, 2026

65% in a Decade? Modelling the Road to Britain’s 2035 Casualty Reduction Target

The Agilysis team of Nathan Harpham, Drishti Khatri, Dan Campsall, and Richard Owen have spent the last few weeks reviewing the new road safety casualty reduction targets with the aim of seeing how close we may get based on previous performance. The results are in some ways promising, but still fall way short of the requirement. Read on to learn more about the targets, prior performance, our modelling methodology, and how policy changes can help make rapid progress.

March 5, 2026

Another success for Joining the Dots 2026

This week, Road safety professionals gathered in Birmingham for the 11th annual Joining the Dots Conference. The event once again demonstrated why it has become a flagship date in the road safety data calendar, bringing together analysts, policymakers, practitioners, and technologists with a shared purpose.

March 1, 2026

Does the Road Safety Strategy do enough for Motorcycle users?

Does the new Road Safety Strategy go far enough for motorcyclists? Agilysis explores training, licensing, and rider risk in The T‑Junction podcast.

February 24, 2026

How Biker Down is Transforming Rider Safety in the South West

Over the last two years, Agilysis has undertaken an evaluation of Biker Down, a vital post-collision response (PCR) initiative delivered in partnership with Vision Zero South West. This first-of-its-kind study highlights how this national program, run by emergency service experts, is boosting the confidence and skills of motorcyclists across Devon and Cornwall.