UK-MoRSE (UK-Monitoring of Road Safety Engineering) is the project to provide a national road safety performance monitoring database across the UK. The system was developed by GreenSafe Limited and is now cared for by the GreenSafe Foundation. The system went live in a beta-test phase in February 2007 and was officially launched with the CPR guidelines in July 2007. UK-MoRSE is free to users and has a data policy that tightly controls access to and use of the data. The system is entirely web-based at: www.uk-morse.com.
The new version of the site launched in early October 2009. UK-MoRSE 2.0 is a response to registered user feedback:
The original and most enthusiastic supporter of UK-MoRSE has been CIHT. Since the launch other organisations have also been supportive:
The project has a target of 1000 records. To reach that target, UK-MoRSE needs to be supported by all organisations involved in road safety service delivery, private and public sector. Every local traffic authority and HA Area in the UK has a Service ID (SID) on the site waiting to be taken up.
UK-MoRSE needs the support of everyone who values road safety performance data: whether working in an organisation that can input records, a consultancy that can provide better-researched solutions for clients or anyone who can encourage the collection of sound data on road safety performance.
The Driscoll Club is designed to encourage people in road safety with radical, rational and revolutionary ideas for making road safety more efficient and/or more effective. The Driscoll Club is named after Bridget Driscoll, the first fatal pedestrian casualty in the UK, killed by a car back in 1896.
The constitution is:
1. Membership is free and is by application or invitation.
2. Potential members must be (or have recently been) road safety practitioners in engineering, enforcement or ETP.
3. Potential members must demonstrate their eligibility for membership by submitting an idea that meets the following criteria:
a. Its essence can be expressed on one side of A4 paper (plus an optional diagram).
b. It must be radical – in that some element of it must be new or untried.
c. It must be rational – in that it must be practicable, repeatable and amenable to evaluation.
d. It must be revolutionary – in that it must offer the opportunity to make some aspect of road safety service delivery more efficient and/or more effective.
4. Membership will not be anonymous, but it will be made clear that the ideas of members are not necessarily aligned with those of their employers.
To apply for membership of The Driscoll Club email your radical, rational and revolutionary idea to driscollclub@greensafe.org.uk.