Seminar: Transport options for young adults -  balancing freedom & risk

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Young adults have risky transport choices. Hear how Graduated Driver Licensing has a part to play in risk reduction &amp; how policy evolves.

This is a bilingual message, please scroll down for Welsh.ENGLISHSeminar: Transport options for young adults - balancing freedom &amp; riskDr Sarah Jones will talk about changes in travel behaviours of young people as they leave compulsory education. She will highlight the individual risks that this brings with it, as well as the challenge it presents to encouraging lifelong active travel and public transport use and the implications for our climate. Finally, she will discuss potential solutions, particularly Graduated Driver Licensing.Dr Shaun Helman will take us through the basic facts and range of risk factors for young and novice drivers including some things that have been done to address the issue of risks faced by this group. He will introduce us to one of the potential ways to address these risks via the idea of Graduated Driver Licensing and explain some of the common counterarguments to this approach.Dr Ian Greenwood: Many of us are experts in our own fields and know inside out what could or should be done to change policy where we think the evidence is strong enough to persuade politicians of the need to change. We can be disappointed. Using young driver policy in Britain between 1987 and 2021 to frame the discussion, Ian briefly shares the revolving door of policymaking for GDL which has continued into 2024, and puts forward two areas which may inform the thinking on how to influence agenda setting. First the application of Kingdon's multiple streams model (1995) and the importance of the coupling of the problem, policy and politics streams, and second the work of Marsden and Reardon (2017) who argue that there is too little emphasis of how and why policies are made or not made in transport policy (governance), instead there is a dominance of what needs to change. Within this, language, framing, and the conditions when a policy window opens are important in the complex and ambiguous world of public policy. Presenters:Dr Sarah Jones is the Co-Director of THINK and a Consultant in Environmental Public Health with Public Health Wales. Sarah has a long-standing interest in road traffic injuries and inequalities. Her PhD studied child pedestrian injuries and deprivation and she has been an advocate for the introduction of Graduated Driver Licensing for many years. In recent years, her interest has developed more widely to cover the links between transport and health, including work around the introduction of a default 20mph speed limit in Wales.Dr Shaun Helman is Transport Research Laboratory’s Chief Scientist for Behavioural Sciences. He is an applied cognitive and social psychologist with nearly two decades’ experience in road safety, road user behaviour, and human-technology integration. His research focuses on the safety of young and newly qualified drivers, vulnerable road user safety (especially visibility and conspicuity) and work-related road safety.Dr Ian Greenwood's research began with questions of why road safety seemed to be excluded from visible political discourse, despite five deaths a day. A second Master's in politics (the first in health policy) led to a PhD from the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, on the politics of road death. This followed a long career in the health service, as a children's nurse, running hospitals and national programmes, policy, and consultancy. The reason for the shift between sectors was the death of his 12 year old daughter, Alice, in an avoidable car crash. CYMRAEGSeminar: Opsiynau trafnidiaeth i oedolion ifanc - mantoli'r rhyddid a'r risgBydd y Dr Sarah Jones yn siarad am newidiadau mewn ymddygiad teithio pobl ifanc wrth iddynt adael addysg orfodol. Bydd hi’n tynnu sylw at y risgiau unigol a ddaw yn sgil hyn, yn ogystal â’r her y mae’n ei chyflwyno o ran annog teithio llesol gydol oes a defnyddio trafnidiaeth gyhoeddus a’r goblygiadau i’n hinsawdd. Yn olaf, bydd yn trafod atebion posibl, yn enwedig Trwyddedu Graddedig ar gyfer Gyrwyr.Bydd y Dr Shaun Helman yn mynd â ni drwy'r ffeithiau sylfaenol a'r ystod o risgiau sy’n wynebu gyrwyr ifanc a newydd, gan gynnwys rhai camau sydd wedi'u cymryd i ymdrin â’r risgiau sy'n wynebu'r grŵp hwn. Bydd yn cyflwyno un ffordd bosib o fynd i'r afael â'r risgiau hyn, sef y syniad o Drwyddedu Graddedig i Yrwyr, ac yn egluro rhai o'r dadleuon cyffredin yn erbyn y dull hwnnw.Dr Ian Greenwood: Mae llawer ohonom yn arbenigwyr yn ein meysydd ein hunain ac yn gwybod heb unrhyw amheuaeth beth y gellid neu y dylid ei wneud i newid polisi lle’r rydym yn credu bod y dystiolaeth yn ddigon cryf i ddarbwyllo gwleidyddion bod angen y newid hwnnw. Gallwn gael ein siomi. Gan ddefnyddio polisi ar yrwyr ifanc ym Mhrydain rhwng 1987 a 2021 i fframio'r drafodaeth, mae Ian yn rhoi crynodeb o’r cylch sy’n bythol droi o ran llunio polisïau GDL, ac sy’n parhau i 2024. Mae’n cyflwyno dau faes a allai lywio ein ffordd o feddwl o ran sut i ddylanwadu ar yr agenda. Yn gyntaf cymhwyso model ffrydiau lluosog Kingdon (1995) a phwysigrwydd cydblethu ffrydiau’r broblem, polisi a gwleidyddiaeth ac, yn ail, gwaith Marsden and Reardon (2017) sy'n dadlau nad oes digon o bwyslais ar sut a pham y gwneir polisïau - neu beidio - ym maes polisi trafnidiaeth (llywodraethu), yn lle hynny, rhoddir sylw yn bennaf i beth y mae angen ei newid. O fewn hyn oll, mae iaith, y fframio, a'r amodau pan fydd ‘ffenestr’ bolisi yn agor yn elfennau pwysig ym myd cymhleth ac amwys polisi cyhoeddus. Cyflwynwyr::Dr Sarah Jones yw Cyd-Gyfarwyddwr THINK ac mae’n Ymgynghorydd mewn Iechyd Cyhoeddus Amgylcheddol gydag Iechyd Cyhoeddus Cymru. Mae gan Sarah ddiddordeb ers tro mewn anafiadau traffig ffordd ac anghydraddoldebau. Roedd ei PhD yn astudio anafiadau i blant oedd yn gerddwyr ac amddifadedd ac mae wedi bod yn eiriol dros gyflwyno Trwyddedu Gyrwyr Graddedig ers blynyddoedd lawer. Dros y blynyddoedd diwethaf, mae ei diddordeb wedi datblygu’n ehangach i gwmpasu’r cysylltiadau rhwng trafnidiaeth ac iechyd, gan gynnwys gwaith ar gyflwyno terfyn cyflymder diofyn o 20mph yng Nghymru.Dr Shaun Helman yw Prif Wyddonydd Gwyddorau Ymddygiad y Labordy Ymchwil Trafnidiaeth. Mae’n seicolegydd cymdeithasol a gwybyddol cymhwysol gyda bron i ddau ddegawd o brofiad mewn diogelwch ar y ffyrdd, ymddygiad defnyddwyr y ffyrdd, ac integreiddio elfennau dynol a thechnolegol. Mae ei ymchwil yn canolbwyntio ar ddiogelwch gyrwyr ifanc a gyrwyr newydd, diogelwch defnyddwyr ffyrdd sy’n agored i niwed (yn enwedig gwelededd ac amlygrwydd) a diogelwch ar y ffyrdd sy’n gysylltiedig â gwaith.Dechreuodd gwaith ymchwil Dr Ian Greenwood drwy ofyn pam roedd diogelwch ar y ffyrdd i’w gweld fel petai wedi'i gau allan o’r drafodaeth wleidyddol amlwg, er gwaethaf pum marwolaeth bob dydd ar gyfartaledd. Roedd ei ail radd Meistr, mewn gwleidyddiaeth, (ar ôl ei un gyntaf mewn polisi iechyd) wedi arwain at Ddoethuriaeth yn Sefydliad Astudiaethau Trafnidiaeth, Prifysgol Leeds, ar bwnc gwleidyddiaeth marwolaeth ar y ffyrdd. Daeth hyn ar ôl gyrfa hir yn y gwasanaeth iechyd, fel nyrs plant, yn rhedeg ysbytai a rhaglenni cenedlaethol, polisi ac ymgynghori. Y rheswm am y tro sydyn rhwng sectorau oedd marwolaeth ei ferch 12 oed, Alice, mewn damwain car y gellid bod wedi’i hosgoi.

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