Delivering Vision Zero: A Safer System for Active and Connected Communities - Call for Papers

Call for presentations: deadline 27 February, across issues of leadership and collaboration to eliminate road harm and increase active travel

Following the recent publication of the Government’s Road Safety Strategy, Delivering Vision Zero: A Safer System for Active and Connected Communities, taking place in Birmingham on 30 June 2026,  will bring together experts from road danger reduction, active travel, policy, planning, highways, enforcement, communications and public health to chart an evidence-based path to Vision Zero.

It will explore issues of leadership and collaboration to eliminate road harm and increase active travel, and equip delegates with the tools and connections to create lasting change.

Call for Papers - closing date 27 February

Landor LINKS are now inviting presentation suggestions, of no more than 250 words, showcasing initiatives that tackle road danger, encourage modal shift and reimagine the streetscape to create people-first roads, streets and public spaces.

Please complete the this form – closing date is 27 February 2026.

We are inviting submissions across the following themes:

Beyond 20mph: maturing the Safe System 

• How do we stop Vision Zero becoming “just speed limits”?

• What does a fully implemented Safe System look like at local and mayoral level?

• Where are councils genuinely struggling to go further?

Enforcement, compliance and legitimacy

• The future of speed enforcement with limited police capacity

• Civil enforcement, ANPR, AI and public reporting

• Maintaining public trust in a more hostile political climate

Designing out danger: when signs and paint are not enough

• Junctions, distributor roads and high-risk corridors

• Tactical vs permanent interventions

• Making safety schemes resilient to political change

From collisions to prediction: data, AI and evidence

• Moving from reactive collision data to proactive risk identification

• What data actually changes decisions?

• Transparency, ethics and confidence in AI-led tools

Bigger, heavier vehicles: the uncomfortable Vision Zero question

• SUVs, EV weight and rising road danger

• What powers do local and combined authorities realistically have?

• Freight, vans and last-mile delivery impacts

Community consent and culture change

• Moving beyond consultation to co-creation

• Behaviour change at neighbourhood scale

• Schools, children and parents as Vision Zero advocates

• Understanding and challenging “motornormativity”

• Delivering effective communications

Vision Zero as a public health and equality strategy

• Road danger as a preventable health harm

• Tackling unequal risk across communities

• Stronger links between transport, public health and NHS prevention

Safe spaces for active travel

• Community and school interventions to improve safety

• Acessible, high quality active travel infrastructure

• Traffic management

Devolution, mayors and accountability for road death

• What responsibility should metro mayors carry – case studies

• How Vision Zero fits into devolved transport and health powers

• Measuring success by 2030

Research and the evidence base

• Building the evidence base

• Reducing the “fatal four” of speeding, seatbelt non-compliance, mobile phone use and intoxication behind the wheel

• Protecting particularly vulnerable road user groups

Delivery

• Improving mechanisms for changing the regulation and layout of roads and streets

• Reflections on how we can make regulation simpler and more effective in the future

• Case studies of positive changes delivered across communities