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Road safety in Australia –the data and the challenge. Kym Bills Executive Director Australian Transport Safety Bureau. National Road Safety Strategy 2001-2010. Joint strategy involving all levels of government & other stakeholders endorsed by ATC in late 2000 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Road safety in Australia–the data and the challenge
Kym Bills
Executive Director
Australian Transport Safety Bureau
National Road Safety Strategy 2001-2010
●Joint strategy involving all levels of government & other stakeholders endorsed by ATC in late 2000
●Series of two-year action plans, providing a focus on priority issues
●Target a 40% reduction in the number of road deaths per 100,000 population by end 2010 (5.6 max)
Basis of target
●Based on estimated effects of known measures following a 1998 summit & Corben/Vulcan paper
●Focus on measures likely to be ‘in the pipeline’ (eg road investment, some vehicle technology) plus those feasible to implement & cost-effective
●Estimates adjusted to allow for expected increase in vehicle use, and discounted to avoid double-counting of savings
●40% challenging, but not cf 50% or ‘vision zero’
2010 target: indicative estimates of the effects of known measures
Improve the safety of roads
New technology to reduce human
error
Road user behaviour
Vehicle crashworthiness
Measuring progress●Steady progress toward the target would require a 5% reduction in
the fatality rate each year ●On that basis, the cumulative reduction by the end of May 2007
should have been 27.9%
Road deaths per 100 000 populationrolling 12 monthly data
5.6
6.6
7.6
8.6
Dec-00 Dec-01 Dec-02 Dec-03 Dec-04 Dec-05 Dec-06 Dec-07 Dec-08 Dec-09 Dec-10
Target: 40% reduction
May 2007 target rate = 6.7 Cumulative reduction of 27.9%
5% reduction per year
Measuring progress
Road deaths per 100 000 populationrolling 12 monthly data
5.6
6.6
7.6
8.6
Dec-00 Dec-01 Dec-02 Dec-03 Dec-04 Dec-05 Dec-06 Dec-07 Dec-08 Dec-09 Dec-10
May 2007 rate = 7.8
Cumulative reduction of 16.5%
Target: 40% reduction
May 2007 target rate = 6.7
Cumulative reduction of 27.9%
Changes in vehicle usage
●Total vehicle usage (kilometres per person) has been growing at about 0.9 of a percentage point per year–slightly faster than expected when the target was set–but not enough to explain the gap between safety outcomes
and the pro-rata target –unlikely that the changed safety trend since 2004 is a result of
a surge in total vehicle use • in fact, fuel price rises have probably moderated aggregate
exposure growth.
Changes in vehicle usage
●Truck VKT growth in line with forecast and deaths have decreased (but not in line with pro rata 40% target)
●Unforseen increase in motorcycle usage and motorcycle deaths–motorcycle deaths have increased by 36% since 1999
(22% since 2004)– the trend in motorcycle deaths accounts for about two fifths of
the current gap between the total fatality rate & pro-rata target
Was the target unrealistic?
●Two states have achieved cumulative reductions that are very close to the national pro-rata target for May 2007:–National pro-rata target: 27.9% –NSW reduction: 27.2%–SA reduction: 27.3%
– In Victoria, which started with the lowest rate among the states, the rate has dropped by 24% since December 2000
Was the target unrealistic?
●In the 12 months to May 2007, NSW and Victoria both had road death rates slightly below the national pro-rata target–National pro-rata target: 6.7 deaths per 100,000 –NSW and Victoria: 6.6 deaths per 100,000
●Victoria recorded a 31% reduction in the fatality rate in the two years to April 2004, mainly by using a robust approach to speed management
Victoria’s campaign on speeding: results
Rolling 12 month average
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Dec-98 Dec-00 Dec-02 Dec-04 Dec-06 Dec-08
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Victoria
Australia (excluding Victoria)
Victorian road deaths fell by 31% in the two years
to April 2004
Why are we above the national target?
●National Road Safety Action Plan for 2007 & 2008 many cost-effective measures:
–have not been implementedor–have not been implemented in all jurisdictionsor–have not been implemented on a sufficient scale
●The target was an estimate of what could be achieved not a forecast of what would be
Is the national target still within range?
Road deaths per 100 000 populationrolling 12 monthly data
5.6
6.6
7.6
8.6
Dec-00 Dec-01 Dec-02 Dec-03 Dec-04 Dec-05 Dec-06 Dec-07 Dec-08 Dec-09 Dec-10
May 2007 rate = 7.8
Cumulative reduction of 16.5% in 6 years 5 months
May 2007 target rate = 6.7
Cumulative reduction of 27.9%
Reduction now required to meet target: 28% in 3 years 7 months
●Average annual percentage reduction to meet targetover 10 years: 5.0%
●Average annual percentage reduction to May 2007:2.8%
●Average annual percentage reduction required from now to 2010:8.8%
● Total percentage reduction required from now to 2010: 28%
Is the national target still in range?
“If I wanted to get to there, I wouldn’t start from here.”
The challenge
●On average, 31 people die on Australia’s roads every week
●More than 10 times as many people are seriously injured
●These numbers could be much lower
●Many available options for improving safety would result in a net economic benefit
●We would probably have a more efficient and reliable road transport system with reduced greenhouse emissions and noxious emissions
●We have the outcomes that we have because, as a society, we have made certain choices.