Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety

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The Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety (PACTS) is a United Kingdom Parliament Associate Parliamentary Group which exists "to promote transport safety legislation to protect human life".

According to PACTS, the organisation's principal activities are:

providing an independent technical advisory service for Parliamentarians on a wide range of transport safety matters.
lobbying and persuading, identifying and promoting research-based solutions to transport safety issues through Parliamentary access and contacts.
promoting wider publicity and information on safety through conferences, seminars etc.
responding to Government, Parliamentary and public proposals for safety improvements.

PACTS has an orthodox view of traffic safety, supporting measures to reduce speeding, mobile phone use, drug and drink impairment; it supports measures to target inexperienced drivers via training and enforcement.

1 An example of their output
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] An example of their output

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A 2005 press release from PACTS about the UK Government's four-year-report on Safety Camera Partnerships^[1] stated that "there was a 42% reduction in the number of people killed or seriously injured at sites where safety cameras were introduced – 1,745 fewer people killed or seriously injured each year;", whereas the study itself^[2] considers the contribution to the observed reduction in casualties, of trend and regression-to-mean (RTM) effects. Table H7 summarises that for urban situations the cameras themselves are only likely to be responsible for 10.4% rather than the full observed reduction of 54.5%, with RTM responsible for 34.8% and trend responsible for 9.3%. The report also suggests in section H1 that, although it did not calculate RTM effects for rural roads they were likely to be higher (therefore the camera contribution lower) than for urban roads. The controversial^[3] Road Casualties Great Britain also shows that collision and injury trends have been better on urban roads than on rural minor roads, although this applies mainly to motorcyclists.