The Road Safety Unit in the Ministry of Transport and Mining is inviting members of the public to attend a road safety webinar on Making Jamaican Roads Safer with iMAAP.
The Webinar is scheduled for Monday, October 3, 2022, at 9:30 a.m. (Jamaican time), and is aimed at sensitizing persons on the TRL Software’s cloud-based road safety management platform, iMAAP, which seeks to boost Jamaica’s capability to accurately assess road crashes across the island.
Under the theme, ‘Making Jamaican Roads Safer with iMAAP’, the webinar will showcase how the Road Safety Unit is using the platform to stem the high levels of road fatalities.
The webinar is being hosted by Paul Hutton, Editor at Highway News in the United Kingdom and features a presentation from Director of the Road Safety Unit, Mrs. Deidrie Hudson-Sinclair, on current road safety data challenges and the importance of improving crash data collection in Jamaica; the resulting partnership with transport research laboratory TRL and the use of the iMAAP application to implement countermeasures to make Jamaica’s roads safer. There will also be a presentation from TRL Software’s Head of Product Development, Subu Kamal, who will share future development plans for the platform. Persons may register for the webinar at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-making-jamaican-roads-safer-with-imaap-tickets-412387471027
Jamaica currently uses a paper-based crash data collection and analysis system, but the introduction of a state-of-the-art TRL software-based system enables automatic photo, video, and data captioning, and speed up the analysis process. The software is used to provide the latest techniques in crash data storage, analysis, and reporting, and also allow for improvements to be made to the road network to make them safer and save lives.
About iMAAP
· Enables road safety professionals to identify problems based on in-depth analyses of accident data
· Establishes safety goals based on identified problems, which are measurable, realistic and time-specific
· Plans programmes of countermeasures, associated costs and timelines; implement and monitor programmes and periodically checks progress
· Evaluates the effectiveness of all interventions implemented