Listen "Understanding National Highways and their plans with Mark Cartwright | AHDT S2#53"
Episode Synopsis
In this episode I speak to Mark Cartwright who is Head of Commercial Vehicle Incident Prevention at National Highways.
He shares incredible insights as well as amazing plans the the National Highways have coming up, here are the areas we covered in this interview;
1. Mark's experience and background
2. What National Highways and Mark's Commercial Vehicle Incident Prevention team does
3. Existing / ongoing activity from the National Highways;
a. Operation Tramline
b. Van Driver Toolkit
c. CALMDriver – mental health initiative with Campaign Against Living Miserably
4. Developmental activity that is work in progress;
a. PING – looking at using data / images captured from existing sensors on network to let opted-in operators know what their vehicles are up to out on the roads.
b. Post-crash response – Plan A: stop crashes. Plan B: keep victims alive until ambulance arrives. Looking at development of elearning and supporting app, to deliver First Aid Training.
c. 'I Drive a Truck and Know Stuff' – equipping professional drivers with nuggets of information to raise awareness of issues with their peer groups.
There is some amazing stuff in the pipeline and thanks Mark for joining me for this awesome interview. The links discussed in the show are;
The link to Van Driver Toolkit is vandrivertoolkit.co.uk
CALMDriver is drivingforbetterbusiness.com/calmdriver
Driving for Better Business is drivingforbetterbusiness.com
He shares incredible insights as well as amazing plans the the National Highways have coming up, here are the areas we covered in this interview;
1. Mark's experience and background
2. What National Highways and Mark's Commercial Vehicle Incident Prevention team does
3. Existing / ongoing activity from the National Highways;
a. Operation Tramline
b. Van Driver Toolkit
c. CALMDriver – mental health initiative with Campaign Against Living Miserably
4. Developmental activity that is work in progress;
a. PING – looking at using data / images captured from existing sensors on network to let opted-in operators know what their vehicles are up to out on the roads.
b. Post-crash response – Plan A: stop crashes. Plan B: keep victims alive until ambulance arrives. Looking at development of elearning and supporting app, to deliver First Aid Training.
c. 'I Drive a Truck and Know Stuff' – equipping professional drivers with nuggets of information to raise awareness of issues with their peer groups.
There is some amazing stuff in the pipeline and thanks Mark for joining me for this awesome interview. The links discussed in the show are;
The link to Van Driver Toolkit is vandrivertoolkit.co.uk
CALMDriver is drivingforbetterbusiness.com/calmdriver
Driving for Better Business is drivingforbetterbusiness.com
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