About TAMPER Consulting

Established in April 2024, TAMPER Consulting focuses on mobility and safety issues in transportation; developing solutions and delivering specialised training in traffic safety, driver behaviour, and traffic crash investigation and reconstruction in the Caribbean Region. TAMPER Consulting is equipped with the requisite technical competencies to address a wide range of needs that encompass policy, planning, implementation, and operational issues, offering services and support to government, industry, and academia.

Our schedule of workshops and other events covers a range of relevant and pertinent topics within the transportation space, with a focus on safety issues, tailored and customised for clients in Jamaica and the Caribbean.

The conference and symposium are hosted by TAMPER Consulting, which is based in Kingston, Jamaica, and has a core mission to make a positive contribution to traffic and transport safety and operations in the Caribbean and the wider region of the Americas. We believe that it is important to bring the many voices together in an environment where the various perspectives can be shared and appreciated, and the knowledge used to build a better way forward.

Location:
Units 15-16 TAJ Business Centre
105k Red Hills Road
Kingston, Jamaica W.I.

Transportation is an individual activity that takes place in a communal space by communal means. So many individual trips by different modes with different start and end points overlapping, merging and diverging, sharing space, vehicles, and facilities at different times and places. It is a never-ending bubbling pot of conflicts and potential collisions.

The design, construction, implementation, and management of this multitude of conflicts is the realm of transportation and mobility professionals.

• What are the tools available?
• What solution is best for any given scenario?
• What type of environment needs to be created to maintain peaceful operations?
• How can technology be deployed to encourage positive outcomes?

It is challenging to identify a transport issue that doesn't have conflict management as a core objective, but practitioners often fail to look for synergies that will foster collaboration and sharing and encourage learning from experiences in other sectors or areas because of silos of specialisation that have been created to protect turf.

It is well known that transport is a derived demand that supports and facilitates activities in many other sectors. The destination is the real purpose of the trip undertaken, whether for leisure, education, employment, or any other reason, and improvements in transport services have a multiplier effect for productivity and the economy. Open dialogue about the barriers to operating an effective transport system, as viewed and experienced from different perspectives, will create avenues for learning, collaboration, and growth, in the sector and beyond.

For many people, the first thing that comes to mind, when asked about conflict in transport, is the issue of road safety and traffic collisions. However, the wider perspective involves an appreciation of conflict as being any scenario in which there is a difference that may or may not be resolved, whether at:

• the operating level
• the policy level
• within or between sectors
• where there are complementing or overlapping responsibilities
• cases of dependency and interdependency

The impacts of these conflicts may not cause physical damage as do traffic crashes, but the rifts and gaps that result are often sufficient to tangibly affect the desired outcome, in ways that may go unnoticed. Beyond the physical conflicts between objects (whether animate or inanimate) with mass, there are multiple dimensions and scenarios in which the potential for conflict exists.

The multivariate nature of transport requires balance to be struck between:

At the heart of transport management, engineering, and planning is the objective of organizing systems within private and shared spaces to facilitate individual and collective movement in a safe way that does not result in the escalation of conflict to become impacts or collisions. Understanding conflict and how it is created and expressed in practice is a key component of an effective transport system; comprised of infrastructure, services, administration, and regulation working in sync.

Systems integration, traffic safety, mobility, and efficiency of travel by various modes of transportation, including intermodal facilities, are specific areas of concern for policymakers, planners, implementers, and users. In addition, there is the need for connectivity, equity, and integration that depends on the actions of stakeholders at all levels, so that the travel and transport experience can be one that makes the best use of resources and maximises the time available for productive endeavours.

This conference seeks to squarely place a focus on the issue of conflict in transport and mobility and to address how it has been and should be tackled, as we move forward to develop and operate transport systems that are purpose-driven and place safety at the centre of the decision-making process.

The conference takes place at the Jamaica Pegasus in New Kingston, Jamaica, from Wednesday, February 19 to Friday, February 21, 2025. Over the three-day period, participants will hear perspectives from panelists in different areas, and learn from presentations in parallel tracks on a range of research topics. Researchers and practitioners, as well as students, are encouraged to display their work in the poster session that will be ongoing throughout the conference.

On the two days immediately preceding the Conference, at the same location, interested persons may attend the Caribbean Traffic Crash Symposium, which will deliver current and relevant information and updates on technology being used in the investigation and reconstruction of road traffic crashes, with emphasis on event data recorders (black boxes).

The Jamaica Pegasus is centrally located in New Kingston at 81 Knutsford Boulevard, opposite Emancipation Park. For the greatest convenience of access to the conference sessions, participants may choose to book rooms at this location. Other nearby options in New Kingston and the surrounding area, including hotels, guest houses, and AirBnBs, are available. Participants are encouraged to explore accommodation options before making bookings.

The list of hotels below, located in the vicinity of New Kingston, is provided for convenience only. Participants should review and consider the available options and make their own hotel arrangements:

• Marriott Courtyard Kingston, 1 Park Close, Kingston 5
• Courtleigh Hotel & Suites, 85 Knutsford Boulevard, Kingston 5
• Altamont Court Hotel, 1-5 Altamont Crescent, Kingston 5
• S Hotel Kingston, 1 St. Lucia Avenue, Kingston 5
• AC Hotel, 38-42 Lady Musgrave Road, Kingston 5
• R Hotel, 2 Renfrew Road, Kingston 5
• Terra Nova All Suite Hotel, 17 Waterloo Road, Kingston 10

Registration opened in October, with early bird rates effective until December 15, 2024. A discount is offered to persons who choose to register for both the conference and the preceding symposium. Exhibitor and sponsorship opportunities are also available.

Attendee Type	Early Bird	Regular	Conference + Symposium
Attendee (3-day)	J$70,000 / US$500	J$80,000 / US$600 (3-day)	J$135,000 / US$1000
Attendee (1-day)		J$32,000 / US$240 (1-day)
Presenter	J$30,000 / US$200	J$35,000 / US$250	J$105,000 / US$750
Student	J$30,000 / US$200	J$35,000 / US$250	J$60,000 / US$400

TAMPER Consulting will host a cocktail reception on the evening of Tuesday, February 18, in advance of the opening of the conference on Wednesday, February 19, 2025. There will be a mix of panel discussions and presentations over the three-day period, as shown in the indicative timetable. Posters are expected to be on display for the duration of the conference.

Abstracts will continue to be accepted until the programme is finalised in January. Abstracts for presentations and posters can be submitted using the portal on the TAMPER Consulting website (www.tamperconsulting.com) or using the Abstract Submission form below.

Queries about submissions should be sent to tamper@tamperconsulting.com, with the subject line being “Abstract Submission” followed by the author/presenter’s name.

Abstract Submissions closed