WEDNESDAY 21 OCTOBER

SESSIONTIMEPRESENTATIONORGANISATIONSPEAKER
REGISTRATION    8:00
CONFERENCE OPENING9:00Institutional welcomeGovernment of Aragon / Zaragoza City CouncilTo be confirmed
Welcome from the founders of the International Motorcycle Safe Mobility ConferenceDGT

Pere Navarro

(Director General for Traffic)

ANESDOR

José Correia Luis

(President)

Welcome from the organiserFundación Ibercaja

José Luis Rodrigo

(Director General)

CONTEXT9:45Global overview

WHO

World Health Organization

Etienne Krug

(Director, Department of Social Determinants of Health)

Video message

MOBILITY AND THE SAFE SYSTEM9:50Balancing motorcycle mobility, safety and job creation in emerging citiesWorld Bank

Said Dahdah

(Program Manager, Global Road Safety Facility)

INTERNATIONAL POLICY PERSPECTIVE

Moderator:

Antonio Perlot

(ACEM Secretary General)

10:10Motorcycle road safety in Europe: latest developments

ERSO

European Road Safety Observatory (European Commission)

Mircea Ionescu

(Policy Officer)

Motorcycle road safety in Latin America: latest developments

OISEVI

Ibero-American Road Safety Observatory

Álvaro Gómez

(Technical Secretary)

Motorcycle road safety in Africa: latest developments

ARSO

African Road Safety Observatory

Benacer Boulaajoul
(Director General)
Motorcycle road safety in Asia-Pacific: latest developments

APRSO

Asia-Pacific Road Safety Observatory

Priti Gautam

(Senior Transport Specialist and Road Safety Lead)

Motorcycle road safety in the Arab countries: latest developments

AIRSO

Arab Integrated Road Safety Observatory

Adel Alghaberi

(First Economic Affairs Officer, ESCWA)

Motorcycle road safety in the Eastern Partnership: latest developments

EaPRSO

Eastern Partnership Road Safety Observatory

Tamar Sulukhia

(Chair of the EaP RSO Secretariat)

Motorcycle road safety in the Western Balkans: latest developments

WBRSO

Western Balkans Road Safety Observatory

Brikena Tare

(Ministry of Infrastructure and Energy of Albania)

COFFEE BREAK    11:30

SAFE AND SUSTAINABLE URBAN MOBILITY: THE ROLE OF THE MOTORCYCLE

Moderator:José María Riaño

(ANESDOR Secretary General)

12:15United Nations Decade of Sustainable Transport 2026-2035

UNEP

United Nations Environment Programme

Annika Berlin

(Project Manager)

Rightsizing: the role of the motorcycle in sustainable mobility

ACEM

European Association of Motorcycle Manufacturers

Antonio Perlot

(Secretary General)

The Barcelona Motorcycle ObservatoryBarcelona City Council

Carlos López

(Mobility Strategy Department)

Motoristas por Barcelona

Jaime Alguersuari

(President of the Barcelona Motorcycle Observatory)

LUNCH    13:20
PRESENTATION OF THE “PTW RIDERS’ GUIDE 2026: INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICES FOR ROAD SAFETY”14:35Presentation of the project

CAF

Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean

To be confirmed
DGT

Pere Navarro

(Director General for Traffic)

ANESDOR

José María Riaño

(Secretary General)

World Bank

 

Veronica Raffo

(Senior Infrastructure Specialist)

Presentation of the guideAuthorsAnna Ferrer and Jorge Rubino

RIDER SAFETY IN WORK-RELATED MOBILITY STRATEGIES

Moderator:Veneta Vassileva

(ACEM Road Safety Director)

15:00Measuring the road safety footprint of companies

ITF

International Transport Forum

Véronique Feypell

(Head of the Road Safety Programme)

Remote presentation

Integrating rider safety into work-related mobility strategies

FIA

Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile

Paolo Sanna

(Mobility Projects Manager)

Work-related road safety and motorcyclists: the OISS perspective

OISS

Ibero-American Social Security Organization

Gina Magnolia Riaño

(Secretary General)

WORKPLACE MOBILITY PLANS: SUSTAINABILITY AND SAFETY16:05To be confirmedTo be confirmedTo be confirmed
END OF DAY    16:30

 

  THURSDAY 22 OCTOBER

SESSIONTIMEPRESENTATIONORGANISATIONSPEAKER
REGISTRATION    8:00
INTRODUCTION9:00Global overview of motorcycle road safety

UNRSF

United Nations Road Safety Fund

Valeria Motta Arumijo

(Programme Management and Partnerships Officer)

IMMA’s four-stage strategy

IMMA

International Motorcycle Manufacturers Association

Katalin Dobranszky-Bartus

(Secretary General)

INJURY ASSESSMENT AND PREVENTION: DATA FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Moderator:Jesús Monclús
(Expert Director for Road Safety and Prevention, Fundación Mapfre)
9:35From data to decisions: predictive injury modelling in motorcycle safetyJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Abdulgafoor M. Bachani

(Director of the Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit; member of the WHO expert group on motorcycles)

Remote presentation

Airbag biomechanicsAutoliv

Shiyang Meng

(Biomechanics Expert)

To be confirmedTo be confirmedTo be confirmed
THE FUTURE OF MOTORCYCLE SAFETY IN THE DECADE OF ACTION10:40Video messageUnited Nations

Jean Todt

(UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety)

COFFEE BREAK    10:50
RISK PERCEPTION AMONG MOTORCYCLISTS AND OTHER ROAD USERS11:35Differences between the mental models of motorcyclists and car drivers in hazard detectionNottingham Trent University

David Crundall

(Research Coordinator, Department of Psychology)

SAFE ROAD USERS AND TRAINING
Moderator:Ignacio Lijarcio
(Director of the University Institute of Traffic and Road Safety, University of Valencia)
11:55European Training Quality Label: Learn-Ride-Enjoy-Repeat

ACEM

European Association of Motorcycle Manufacturers

Veneta Vassileva

(Road Safety Director)

Safe and efficient riding coursesDGT

Montserrat Pérez

(Deputy Assistant Director for Training and Road Safety Education)

Advanced rider training: Formació 3.0

SCT

Servei Català de Trànsit

Ramon Lamiel

(Director)

THE FUTURE OF MOTORCYCLE SAFETY AND MOBILITY

Moderator:Antonio Perlot

(ACEM Secretary General)

12:45The users’ perspective

FIM

Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme

Jesper Christensen

(Director of the Mobility Commission)

FEMA

Federation of European Motorcyclists’ Associations

Wim Taal

(Secretary General)

LUNCH    13:20

ENGINEERING SAFER AND MORE CONNECTED MOTORCYCLES

Moderator:
Joaquín Catalá

(Deputy Director General for Industrial Programmes, Ministry of Industry and Tourism)

14:25Rider reaction time: key insights for the design of warning systems

CMC

Connected Motorcycle Consortium

Hennes Fischer

(Senior Advisor, Yamaha Motor Europe)

Sebastian Will

(Project Manager, Würzburg Institute for Traffic Sciences)

Two wheels. Four wheels. BMW’s holistic safety strategy. How active safety features make motorcycling saferBMW Motorrad

Arnd Dippel

(Product Manager, BMW Motorrad)

Advancing rider safety through innovation and developmentKTMKarl-Maria Grugl
(Head of Homologation and Regulatory Affairs)

DESIGNING SAFER ROADS FOR MOTORCYCLES: INFRASTRUCTURE, RISK AND URBAN INTEGRATION

Moderator:To be confirmed

15:15Road infrastructure safety management in Europe

European Commission

Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport

Mircea Ionescu

(Policy Officer)

Motorcycle filtering in trafficVias Institute

Kishan Vandael Schreurs

(Researcher)

Motorcyclist protection systems and safety aspects of motorcycle traffic management (PIARC Special Project)

PIARC

World Road Association

Roberto Llamas

(PIARC Working Group on Vulnerable Road Users)

CONCLUSIONS16:20Key takeaways from the II International Motorcycle Safe Mobility ConferenceDGT

Álvaro Gómez

(Director of the National Road Safety Observatory)

ANESDOR

Alba Martínez

(Head of Road Safety and Mobility)

CLOSING16:30Closing remarksDGT

Pere Navarro

(Director General for Traffic)

ANESDOR

José María Riaño

(Secretary General)

Fundación Ibercaja

José Luis Rodrigo

(Director General)

Government of Aragon / Zaragoza City CouncilTo be confirmed
END OF DAY    17:15

 

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Organizers

Mobility City

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