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Improving Road Safety in Morocco

DTRSR-CNPAC,

SWOV, RDW

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Why this project?

• Joint DTRSR-CNPAC, SWOV and RDW initiative

• Moroccan road safety orientation 2014 – 2016

• Governmental supported co-operation Morocco / the Netherlands

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Project goals

• Assist with implementation and execution of road safety strategy, specifically R&D– Road safety management– Enforcement

• Improve road safety in Morocco through the introduction of safe systems approaches and thinking

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Road safety in Morocco

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3,832 deaths In 2013

(DR, 2013)

Road casualties in the Netherlands

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2013: seriously injured approx. 19,000 (SWOV 2014)

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Time periods & paradigms

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1900 – 1920 1920 –1950 1950 – 1970 1960 – 19851985/1990 –

nowCrash chance

phenomenon, bad luck

road devils, accident prone drivers

road user or vehicle or road

multicausal approach

result of integral road system

Research what who the cause which causes, technical improvements

multi- dimensional, economic analysis

Measures on an ad hoc basis

educate, punish

choice from the three E’s

technical solutions for vehicle & road

adapt road system to road user

Time periods and their characteristic road safety paradigms, Source: Hagenzieker et al., 2014; adapted from OECD,1997.

Safe systems approach

• Design the road system to expect and accommodate human error, because it is inevitable that road users make mistakes and sometimes violate the law (and crashes occur)

tailor environment (road, vehicle) to human characteristics

• prepare road user for traffic tasks (training, education) • beware: not all training is beneficial -> e.g. skid training !

• In a crash, interaction between vehicle – roadway – human body must be managed so that serious injury likelihood is minimized, if not eliminated

• Enforcement is no isolated activity but integral part of the system

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The safe systems model

Long term vision eg fatalities

Eg alcohol, speeding, seatbelts

Eg km road reconstructed

Standards, rules

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Data collection for review

• Literature review • Amplifying questions and questionnaires• Personal interviews with high level

stakeholders• Sourcing additional data and reports• Analysis and assessment

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Milestones/products and timing

Activity Time table

Kick-off December 2013, Rabat

Inception report April 2014

Visit to NL June 2014

Draft final report draft October 2014

Meeting to discuss report 23 October, Rabat

Seminar presentation results 24 October, Rabat

Final report December 2014

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R&D and technology transfer

1. Road safety research and development

2. Road safety management

3. Enforcement

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Conclusions & recommendations (1) 

• No dedicated road safety research programme yet – i.e. backed by sustainable funding sources and

carried out by dedicated research staff

• The current project is good example to start capacity building and professional exchange but needs to be expanded to include all aspects of road safety.

• The feasibility of establishing a dedicated and independent road safety research institute needs to be further explored.

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Conclusions & recommendations (2)

• A comprehensive information platform is advised– crashes– vehicles– drivers– enforcement– traffic (e.g. speed, volumes)

• Establish a central unit/agency responsible for data collection, validation and quality control

• Improve data exchange between e.g. – DTRSR, CNEH, CNPAC, CNER,

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Examples of specific activities

• Develop a comprehensive strategy based on harder targets, both in terms of crashes and intermediate outcomes

• Initiate studies for checking the crash registration rates

• Develop systems to link hospital data with crash data to control for under-registration and validate severity

• Set targets and programmes for addressing high risk locations

• Develop an integrated quality control system for road design (audit guidelines; courses etc)

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Visit to NL

• Theory of safe systems– Coordination; funding; R&D; legislation,

promotion; monitoring and evaluation– Supporting data

• Safe systems in practice– Vehicle and driver registration, testing and

licencing– Road design and operation– Enforcement

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