The World Bank’s (WB) Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF) and the World Resources Institute (WRI), under the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) hosted the “Webinar Series: Safe Speeds for Latin America and the Caribbean.” The webinar was held on October 14, 16, 28, and 30, 2025, during four two-hour sessions in a span of two weeks. It was made available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.  

The goal of the webinar was to disseminate the recently published "Guide for Safe Speeds: Managing Traffic Speeds to Save Lives and Improve Livability" and other complimentary resources and introduce the Roads for Live (R4L) Framework for selecting and implementing safe speeds and how to identify effective solutions to support them. 

The webinar included presentations from world experts on road safety and speed management, including Alina Burlacu,; Leslie Nii Odartey Mills, ,  Soames Job, Eva Eichinger-Vill, Blair Turner, and Diego Canales, from the WB; Siba El-Samra and Alejandro Schwedhelm, Urban Mobility Managers at WRI; David Cliff, CEO of the Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP); Alejandro Furas from LatinNCAP; Rodrigo Cavalcante, at the Government of the Federal District (Brazil); and Christopher Ziemann, from the City of Alexandria (Virginia, USA).  

The series included a comprehensive agenda which was divided in four parts: The first part, “Why Safe Speeds are Needed”, focused on explaining the importance of speed management and myth-busting common speed management myths. The second part of the series, “How to Select Safe Speeds (Roads-for-Life R4L Framework)”, introduced the Roads-for-Life (R4L) Framework and how to select safe speeds based on it. During the third part, “How to Support Safe Speeds”, panelists presented the different elements and variables that help support the implementation of safe speeds. These included infrastructure, land use planning, vehicle technologies, communications, and policing and deterrence. Finally, the fourth part of the series, “How to use Speed Data and How to Implement the Learnings in Practice (Case Studies)” included discussions about data in speed management, case studies on implementing safe speeds, and actionable recommendations on how to get started in the implementation of safe speeds. 

In addition to experts’ presentations, the hosts conducted interactive sessions where participants were able to ask and answer questions and shared feedback and insights from their experiences, in real time, and submit photographs of speed management challenges from their cities, that were subsequently shared and discussed by the panelists.  

On balance, it was a productive and educational series. Participants showed consistent engagement throughout the four sessions and expressed genuine interest in the material that was shared. Many shared their observations on how information learned could be applied in their countries.