John Wall is recognised as one of Australia's leading specialists in the application of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) for road safety. He has over 25 years of experience in the development of road safety strategies and countermeasures. He holds tertiary qualifications in agricultural science, education and public health. At the beginning of 2019 John has commenced his current role as Program Manager for Connected and Automated Vehicles in Austroads; the organisation for Australasian road transport and traffic agencies. Austroads members are collectively responsible for the management of over 900,000 kilometres of roads valued at more than $250 billion representing the single largest community asset in Australia and New Zealand.

Bridget is a Chartered Engineer working on transport research, policy, and transport planning and engineering. She has been based in Hamilton for over 15 years, where she works for MRCagney. Bridget has a doctorate in cognitive psychology, and honours and masters degrees in civil engineering. Bridget’s work focuses on challenging the status quo by bringing good evidence to decision-making in transport. She has completed a variety of research projects in walking, cycling, road safety, and access for people with disabilities. Bridget has worked extensively with community, including the disability sector, to understand systemic barriers to more equity of participation. Her PhD thesis was an investigation into the prevalence and consequences of mind wandering during everyday driving.

Paul Graham is the NZ Transport Agency’s Principal Scientist, with more than 30 years’ experience in road safety research working in the former Land Transport Safety Authority, the Ministry of Transport and the New Zealand Transport Agency. His interests and activities include road safety strategy, measurement and evaluation of road safety outcomes, integration between police and hospitalisation data, and research into a wide range of road safety issues such as injury severity classification, driver impairment, or rural enforcement tactics. He works closely with the NZTA advertising team and with NZ Police to develop target audience profiles and to measure audience attitudes and behaviours, to inform and support the road safety advertising programme. He has most recently been leading the NZTA’s development of a modelling tool to assess the effects of combinations of road safety interventions.