8th Ignition Interlock Symposium (IIS)
Date: Sunday, August 26 - Monday, August 27, 2007
Chair:
Dr. Paul Marques, PIRE (marques@pire.org)
The 8th Annual IIS will be held over two days (Sunday/Monday). T2007 registrants are welcome to attend any of the IIS sessions, and IIS registrants may attend any T2007 session on the Sunday or Monday.
This symposium brings together researchers, program evaluators, government officials, manufacturers, service providers, and victim advocacy groups from many countries to share information about the growing field that combines alcohol sensing and vehicle interlock control technologies. These technologies can detect and reject vehicle start-up attempts by drivers whose blood alcohol level exceeds some minimal amount, usually .02-.03 gm/dl. The shared goal among all participants and attendees is to understand and maximize the road safety benefits that will accrue from full deployment, monitoring, and evaluation of in-vehicle safety technologies and the management of the programs that oversee them. The IIS has met in Canada, the United States and France during the preceding 7 years.
The symposium organizers are interested in receiving abstracts of presentations that advance the goal of the meeting, ideally those based on documentary evidence that yields new information to advance the field. Presentations are also invited that bring a fresh perspective on elements of service delivery, improving compliance, legislative innovations that increase penetration, primary prevention programs, treatment adjunctive programs, or other novel program features that can similarly advance the goal of the meetings. In recent years there have been presentations from interlock/alcolock programs underway in countries outside North America: especially Australia, France, Germany, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom, and there is a continuing need to broaden the scope of issues and evidence beyond programs of the United States and Canada. Interested individuals with unique information to share are encouraged to submit an abstract.
The Eighth Annual Meeting of IIS in conjunction with ICADTS and TIAFT is an opportunity to expand the network and conversational opportunities among the community of people concerned with driver factors in road safety.