Outcomes from Automotive Dialogue Road Safety Summit and 5 th Transportation Ministerial Meeting

Outcomes fromAutomotive Dialogue Road Safety Summitand5th Transportation Ministerial Meeting

Joe MothaAustralia

TPT-WG29, Chinese Taipei

29th APEC Transportation Working Group Meeting, Chinese Taipei, 9-13 July 2007

AUTOMOTIVE DIALOGUE ROAD SAFETY SUMMIT

Adelaide, Australia, March 27, 2007

Organised by APEC Automotive Dialogue

Opened by the Hon. Mark Vaile MP, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Transport and Regional Services (Australia)

Report and recommendations provided to the 5th APEC Transportation Ministerial Meeting



AUTOMOTIVE DIALOGUE ROAD SAFETY SUMMIT

Objectives:

Increase visibility of road safety – as a public health challenge– as an economic challenge

Share information about effective ways of reducing the human and economic cost of road crashes

Encourage Transportation Ministers to make road safety an APEC priority



ROAD SAFETY SUMMIT: themes and presentations

Public Health and Economic Development Challenges of Road Traffic Safety

presentations from:– World Health Organization– World Bank– Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Why APEC must make road safety a priority: Lord Robertson, Commission for Global Road Safety




Lessons learned from work underway in low- and middle-income economies

presentations:

• Thailand’s Data System Evaluation Project– Thai Ministry of Transport

• Tropical Helmet Program in Vietnam– Asia Injury Prevention Foundation

• Towards Enhancing Road Safety in Malaysia– Malaysian Ministry of Transport/Malaysian Institute of Road Safety

Research• Seatbelt Project in Guangzhou, China

– George Institute for International Health




Regional engagementpresentations:

• Make Roads Safe – The Global Campaign for Road Safety– Make Roads Safe

• Integrating Safety into Infrastructure Development– Asian Development Bank

• UNESCAP Ministerial Road Safety Resolution– UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

• UN Collaboration’s Good Practice Guides– Global Road Safety Partnership

• International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP)– ARRB Group



Key messages: the problem

Data: dimensions of the problem

Priority is growth in Asia – impacts on road safety

Public health problem

Transport missing in UN Millennium Development Goals



Key messages: commitment and response

Shared responsibility

High level political commitment (eg President Chirac)

UN involvement in awareness raising (four UN General Assembly resolutions since 2003; another resolution in late 2007)

Busan Declaration (Nov 2006)



Key messages: commitment and response Asian Highway Intergovernmental Agreement (July 2005)

Robertson Report: $300m 10-year action plan; minimum 10% road safety budget allocation for infrastructure projects; UN-sponsored Global Road Safety Ministerial Summit in 2008

APEC has 61% of ADB voting power: as shareholders can influence thinking; as donors can contribute grant and concessional funds and influence uses of these funds

Lessons from AIDS



Key messages: Principles and practice

Evaluation important

Systems approach (infrastructure, vehicle, road user)

Helmets, alcohol/drugs, seat belts & child restraints, speed, visibility, low-cost engineering measures, first aid training

WHO World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention (2004) Global Good Practice Guides (helmets, drink driving now available)

Emergency medical care: OPALS study (high tech vs low tech) - low-cost rural emergency systems very effective; emergency rural taxi service in Ghana



Key messages: Actions

Data/policy framework Implementation recommendations Action

Improve data collection (eg Thai data systems evaluation project)

Data collection and analysis workshops in the US

Tropical helmet program in Vietnam

Local, practical, do-able solutions

APEC members have the power to effect change



APEC Auto Dialogue recommendations to Ministers

Improving road safety should be high priority for APEC economies

Engage with counterparts in Health and Public Security Ministries to ensure each economy has comprehensive national road safety plan that includes realistic but challenging fatality and injury reduction objectives

Welcome global good practice guides addressing key risk factors and support use of guides in developing strategies and programs



APEC Auto Dialogue recommendations to Ministers

Continue to share knowledge and resources across economies through APEC Transportation Working Group, particularly to implement further initiatives in low/middle income economies

Recommend to APEC leaders that improving road safety be a priority for APEC and that progress be reviewed from 2008



5th APEC Transportation Ministerial Meeting

Adelaide, Australia: 28 - 30 March 2007

Discussions focussed on three broad themes: • transport’s role in trade liberalisation and facilitation• transport safety• transport security

Ministerial keynote speeches on road safety by Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam



Malaysia: Integrated approach

16m vehicles (49% motorcycles; 60% fatalities)

5 year plan (2006-2010): 2 deaths per 10,000 vehicles by 2010, 2006 = 3.97; 10 deaths per 100,000 population, 2006 = 23; 10 deaths per billion VKT, 2006 = 18)

Establishment of: National Road Safety Dept in Dec 2004; State Road Safety Dept in Nov 2006; Malaysian Road Safety Research Institute (MIROS) in Dec 2006

Cabinet Committee chaired by PM; Steering Committee chaired by Minister of Transport; Inter-agency Planning and Coordination Committee chaired by DG Road Safety Dept



Malaysia

Proposed Road Safety and MIROS Act

Education in schools; camera surveillance; driver training and assessment; motorcycle lanes for new Federal roads; community programs



Vietnam

Significant problem: rapid urbanisation, poor infrastructure, inefficient state governance, low awareness, rapid increase in vehicles

Reduction from 13.9 deaths per 10,000 vehicles in 1995 to 6.3 in 2006

Safety legislation; road safety audits and black spot treatment; communications/education campaigns; improving driver training and licensing; law enforcement; comprehensive database; emergency rescue and support systems; financial resources; international cooperation



Thailand

Global ‘plague’

13,000 deaths; 25m vehicles (61% motorcycles)

Design, development and maintenance of infrastructure; collaboration between Government and private sector

Peak agency - Road Safety Operations Centre: Committee (DPM); Ministers of Health, Interior; Transport; Education; Justice, Royal Thai Police; NGOs



Thailand

Road safety strategy based on 5Es: Education; law Enforcement; traffic Engineering; Emergency service system; Evaluation and monitoring

Funds: health fund (alcohol and cigarette taxes); road safety fund (custom made numberplate auctions)

Drink driving (public awareness campaigns); strict rules for licence applications; roadworthiness checks for vehicles over 7 years old; NHTSA data collection project

Transport Safety Centre and Accident Investigation Unit



Transportation Ministerial Meeting (TMM5)

Joint Ministerial Statement: •Continuing efforts to improve road traffic safety

should be a high priority for APEC economies•Agree to recommend to APEC Leaders that improving

road safety be a priority for APEC and that progress be reviewed periodically

•Mix of issues and responses vary across member economies



TMM5 agreed actions on road safety

Work with other authorities in each economy to ensure that each APEC economy has a comprehensive road safety strategy including:

• realistic but challenging fatality and injury reduction objectives

• wide scope: including road network, traffic regulation, road user behaviour, driver training and licensing, vehicle standards and enforcement

• arrangements for monitoring road crash trends and publishing progress against the targets

• a mechanism for continuous improvement and updating of the strategy

• strategies for assistance measures to be explored



TMM5 agreed actions on road safety

Welcome global good practice guides and support use of guides in developing strategies and programs

Share knowledge & resources with a view to implementing further road safety initiatives in low and middle income APEC economies

Encourage participation in activities targeted specifically at road safety for youth (eg UN Global Road Safety Week April 07)

Encourage all economies to consider measures to ensure adequate ongoing funding for implementing road safety initiatives

Encourage economies to develop strategies which reduce risks to vulnerable road users including young people, the aged, motor cyclists, cyclists & pedestrians

Encourage economies to develop strategies to deal with identified problem areas such as failure to wear seat belts, driving under the influence of alcohol and promote positive behaviours (wearing helmets)



TMM5 agreed actions: other issues for LEG

Promote environmentally sustainable transport, fuel efficiency etc (§ 19)

– note potential links to safety strategies (speed management, eco-driving)

Focus on working with industry on issues including harmonisation of standards and regulatory practices (§ 26)



TMM5 agreed actions: all TPT-WG Expert Groups and Sub Groups

Items directly relevant to LEG’s work include:• Urge member economies to continue to enhance

cooperation with the World Bank & Asian Development Bank through appropriate APEC channels (§ 40)

• Encourage cooperative arrangements for technical assistance and technology transfer (§ 22)

• Working Group to establish a register of transport safety training capabilities in member economies to assist with capacity building (§ 58)

• Working Group to complement work of other international forums without duplication (§ 24)



“Complement work of other international forums without duplication” (§ 24)

Some of the relevant agencies and forums include:• UN/WHO/World Bank (UN Road Safety Collaboration)

– partners include UN Regional Commissions • Global Road Safety Facility (World Bank)• Asian Development Bank• UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)• ASEAN• Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP)

– hosted by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)• Global Road Safety Initiative (GRSI)• Commission for Global Road Safety (FIA Foundation)• Asia Injury Prevention Foundation• Transport departments in member economies• Research agencies (transport, public health) in member economies • World Road Association (PIARC)

Documents

Outcomes from Automotive Dialogue Road Safety Summit and 5 th Transportation Ministerial Meeting