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News and Views

Welcome to the Road Safety Analysis News and Views page. Here you can keep up to date with the latest events and announcements relating to our projects, as well as catching up with progress reports and development issues.

Child Casualties 2010

August 16th, 2010

Road Safety Analysis has today revealed ground breaking analysis into child road casualty risk by the areas in which they live. The research is based on five years’ data covering over 120,000 child road casualties and is the first time that such a detailed ... Read article

MAST is Recognised at Prestigious Awards

August 10th, 2010

The Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation has recognised the important place of MAST Online in supporting the road safety community with high quality analysis and insight. At the 5th Annual CIHT Awards ceremony the project team were presented ... Read article

MAST looks forward to 1st Birthday

August 9th, 2010

It is incredible to think that just one year ago we were in planning stages for the launch events when MAST Online would be shown to the world for the first time.  We had only spent around 8 months in the development cycle at that point and yet we were ... Read article

MAST Online Launch Confirmed

July 23rd, 2009

The project team have announced that arrangements for launching the Initial Version of MAST Online have now been finalised. Following consultation with the Department for Transport, MAST will be unveiled at launch events in London on Tuesday 22 September ... Read article

MAST Launch scheduled for September

May 7th, 2009

The project Steering Group have confirmed that an initial version of MAST Online will be launched nationwide this September, to coincide with the 2008 release of Road Casualties Great Britain. It is anticipated that the Department for Transport will ... Read article

Aeriandi chosen for MAST Web Development

April 2nd, 2009

MAST has announced that its cutting edge data analysis engine, to be hosted right here on Road Safety Analysis, will be created by leading Oxford-based web development company Aeriandi Ltd. Since their inception in 2002, Aeriandi have earned an enviable ... Read article

Here Be Dragons – the problem of geography

March 31st, 2009

We’ve all heard the urban myth about medieval people believing uncharted areas of the world to be populated by strange and terrible monsters – that unknown seventeenth century cartographer who wrote “hic sunt dracones” on his globe ... Read article

MAST seen as beacon of best practice

March 30th, 2009

Transforming all aspects of government to serve citizens better is a major government objective right now, and customer insight techniques lie at the heart of meeting this challenge. The Cabinet Office tries to share best practice and innovations which ... Read article

MAST – how to deliver the baby?

March 30th, 2009

When I first joined the MAST Project last September, MAST did not exist – but it did have an ancestor. My colleagues Richard and Dan, from the Thames Valley Safer Roads Partnership, had developed something they called Headline Data. It was successfully ... Read article

Blessings from ‘The Godfather’

February 26th, 2009

MAST approved by creator of MOSAIC MAST has been described as “admirable and commendable” by Richard Webber, creator of the MOSAIC geo-demographic classification system and Visiting Professor at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. His comments ... Read article