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Milton Bertin-Jones
Key Qualifications: Road Safety / Engineering/Traffic Calming Project Management Project design and evaluation Traffic Control Systems
Education: School of Engineering, Electrical Civil Engineer, 1980
International Course on Road Safety and Accident Prevention, Transport Research Laboratory, TRL (U.K.), 1993
Diploma on Enterprise Management, University of Chile, 1995
Advanced International Training program on Traffic Safety Management in Sweden VTI, 1996
Employment : 2001 Consulting in Road Safety, Working in BABTIE UK, giving advice to NRSC of Poland.
1994-2000 First Executive Secretary, National Road Safety Commission, Chile. In charge of starting the Technical Secretariat, including the definition of comprehensive working plans. The implemented actions have resulted in the reduction of the number of people killed in the road (-16% in 1999); in fact, the number of killed has been reverted to the 1992 level.
Key Activities: - Definition of a Holistic Road Safety area; it covers:
Drivers Training Enforcement Vehicle quality Management Judiciary action Roads and Public Spaces Management Medical assistance and Insurance Transport Services Management nvestigation and Information Education and the Media
- Motto: 'How can we save the next victim?'
- Defining a National Target in the area: Target 0% grow in persons killed ´94-2000, Obtained: -13%. - Design of targets for Safety Belts use. - Introducing Road Blocks for testing alcohol in drivers, together with media campaign. - Introducing a comprehensive system of control of high speed on the highway system. Excess speed reduced by 70%. - Working with the Government and Parliament to modification of the traffic law. Point system for driving licenses, Driving Standard Agency. - New driver handbook -New road works signals handbook, Etc.
1994- 2002 Lecturer. Invited to participate in several International Road Safety Conferences, e.g. Third Annual Conference on Transportation and Health (USA); Latin American Association of Roads, PROVIAL, in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Costa Rica on modern policies on Road Safety, etc.
1993-1994 Chief, Road Safety Area, Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications, Chile and Coordinator, Inter-Ministry Technical Team.
1981-1990 Specialist, Traffic Control Systems, Urban Transport Commission, Executive Secretariat.
1982-1983 Drafting of technical specifications of Traffic Signs Controllers.
1983, 1991 Field study of centralized Traffic Control Systems in England, Holland and Spain.
1983-l986 Member of Technical Commission on Updating the Road Traffic Signal Manual, e.g. drafting the chapter on 'Pedestrian Facilities'.
1983-1986 Technical counterpart on studies on Traffic Modeling and Road Safety.
1985-1988 Chief Engineer, Operational Unit on Traffic Control System for the city of Santiago, Chile, including the process of equipment certification. And introducing SCOOT.
Also member of Program Committees, in diverse Congress on Transport Engineering.
PUBLICATIONS Explicit Pedestrian Facilities. Urban Transport Commission, 1984.
Analysis of delays in Isolated Traffic Signals with different Control Strategies. IV Pan - American Congress on Traffic and Transport Engineering, 1986
Road Safety Audit, 2000
Road Safety: From the space of the Challenge to the space of the results. . First National conference on accident prevention on highways: Safety for the new millennium. CONAPREA, National committee on accident prevention in Federal Highways, Mexico, 2000.
AWARDS
'Eugenio Cabellos Award' granted by the Chilean Federation of Inter-Urban Transport Associations, 1998.
'Traffic Safety Club Award', 1997.
'National Committee on Traffic Safety Education Award', 1999.
'Día Interamericano de la Seguridad del Tránsito', Traffic Safety Club, 2000