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SEROC – and the gifts that SENSoR is bringing to the party
Dr Steve Lawson Road Safety Foundation
SENSoR – ROSEE Projects’ Coordination
ROSEE – ROad safety in South East European regions SENSoR – South East Neighbourhood Safe Routes – valuable contact with other researchers and practitioners on a parallel project seeking to examine road safety issues by other means. – huge benefit from regular coordination, events and joint information dissemination
Revisiting the SEROC terms of reference
• “i General functions of the SEROC Committee...”
• “ii Specific functions of the SEROC Committee...”
SEROC Terms of Reference -- Functions • Strategy oversight in regards to harmonized EU and UN approaches
as well as SEE Program strategy
• Monitor adoption of projects’ results adopted at national level
• Facilitate co-operation between SENSOR and ROSEE projects to ensure complementarity and avoidance of overlapping activities
• Assist in the know-how exchange between the two projects and the enhancement of technical and scientific knowledge
• Assist in the development, review and distribution of road safety practices, procedures and policies
SEROC Terms of Reference: specific functions -- recommended evidence
• Economic parameters to be used in road safety evaluations
• Recorded deaths and associated time periods for SEE countries
• Definitions and handling procedures for serious injuries
• Definitions and handling of non-serious injuries and PDO (property damage only)
• Traffic census data • Road network definitions and cartography
Strategy oversight and harmonisation • Meeting the Terms of Reference:
– Harmonised measures of safe travel “across borders”
– SENSoR strategies being absorbed by European
Bank for Reconstruction and Development – Head of European Commission Road Safety Unit
attends 2-day Road Assessment Programme workshop in September 2013
Facilitate cooperation • Minimal overlap • High-level complementarity
– ROSEE – local areas and emphasis on road-user behaviour
– SENSoR – major inter-urban routes and infrastructure
Assist in the know-how exchange • Mid-term conference • Final conference • Literature exchange • Website identification
Assist in the development, review and distribution/dissemination
• Newsletter • Sharing of ways of connecting with the media • Final results – getting them into the hands of the right people
Adoption of project results at a national level • National safety priorities – SENSoR’s safety rating used
in Serbia as a model in guiding upgrading of M22 • Funding models – European Bank for Reconstruction & Development:
– Lubrice-Jelovica-Jezerine (Montenegro) Foca-Hum (Bosnia) Doboj-Vukosavje motorway corridor (Bosnia) Doboj-Zepce motorway corridor (Bosnia)
• M2 in Moldova – upgrade case study to be used as a SENSoR project model
3 ways to implement in SENSoR 1. Free-standing safety schemes
- best for most urgent priorities
2. with routine maintenance - best for signs, markings, hazardous objects
3. with new build or rehabilitation
- best for significant works
Safer roadsides
– Objects within 1-5m – Trees – Sign/post/poles
– Barriers – Break-away – Delineation
Safer overtaking – Single- to dual-carriageways – Central median barrier – Central hatching – Wide centrelines – Overtaking-lane
Safer Intersections – control & protection – Very little control at intersections – few sites with
traffic signals – Many unprotected turns – Few roundabouts – Intersection quality (visibility, layout and markings)
often judged as poor – Delineation judged as “poor”
Safer Villages typical modern treatments
SEROC Terms of Reference: recommended evidence
• Economic parameters to be used in road safety evaluations • Recorded deaths and associated time periods for SEE countries • Definitions and handling procedures for serious injuries • Definitions and handling of non-serious injuries and PDO
(property damage only) • Traffic census data • Road network definitions and cartography
For publicity purposes – how many deaths and serious injuries in South East Europe?
• “More than 120,000 deaths and serious injuries in South East Europe annually”?
• “More than 2.5 million over 20 years”? – Use respected publicly-available sources – Assume/estimate 10 serious injuries for every
death – Numbers come with a “health warning” – traffic
growth, motorisation, emergency care etc
Annual road deathsAlbania 352Austria 522Bosnia & Herzegovina 336Bulgaria 775Croatia 426Greece 1451FYROM 162Hungary 740Italy (part) est. 2000Moldova 450Montenegro 95Romania 2377Serbia 660Slovakia 515Slovenia 138Ukraine (part) est. 500
11499WHO: Global Status Report on Road Safety 2013(Most recent available data)
Annual road deaths Annual serious injuries?Albania 352 3520Austria 522 5220Bosnia & Herzegovina 336 3360Bulgaria 775 7750Croatia 426 4260Greece 1451 14510FYROM 162 1620Hungary 740 7400Italy (part) est. 2000 20000Moldova 450 4500Montenegro 95 950Romania 2377 23770Serbia 660 6600Slovakia 515 5150Slovenia 138 1380Ukraine (part) est. 500 5000
11499 114990WHO: Global Status Report on Road Safety 2013(Most recent available data)
