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Towards Zero: Ambitious Road Safety Targets and the Safe System Approach

Towards Zero: Ambitious Road Safety Targets and the Safe System Approach. Stephen Perkins OECD-ITF Joint Transport Research Centre. Report published September 2008. Working Group 2005 – 2008 21 governments, World Bank, WHO, FIA Foundation Greece Prof. Kanellaidis.

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Towards Zero: Ambitious Road Safety Targets and the Safe System Approach

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  1. Towards Zero:Ambitious Road Safety Targets and the Safe System Approach Stephen Perkins OECD-ITF Joint Transport Research Centre

  2. Report published September 2008 • Working Group 2005 – 2008 • 21 governments, World Bank, WHO, FIA Foundation • Greece Prof. Kanellaidis

  3. Targets: ECMT 50% 2000-2012

  4. Progress varies widely

  5. Progress

  6. Strategy • Intensify / transfer tried and tested measures: • Speed, Drink, Seatbelts, Safer vehicles • Develop a Safe System Approach • Integrating measures that target: infrastructure design, maintenance, traffic management, vehicles, and driver behaviour • Shared responsibility / liability for safety between drivers, police, road managers, traffic departments … • The Safe System is for all countries • Philosophy: to design system to ensure crash impact energies stay below levels that cause death and serious injury

  7. Safe System Targets • Vision – zero deaths • Raises level of ambition • Stimulates new measures and research • Only ethical approach • Possible to achieve • Zero children killed in Sweden so far in 2008 • Interim Targets – based on • Policies adopted • Modelled results of measures to be taken • Such evidence-based targets are needed to make ECMT / EU 50% improvement happen

  8. Recommendations • Adopt an ambitious vision • Set interim targets • Develop a safe system approach • Exploit proven interventions • Analyse data to understand crash risks and safety performance • Improve safety management with a results focus • Accelerate knowledge transfer • Invest in road safety • Foster commitment at top political levels

  9. Discussing the Safe System with senior policy makers Michèle Merli, France Isabelle Kardacz, EC Pere Navarro, Spain

  10. Conclusions Tested at the High Level Seminar • General support for safe system • Vision Zero still questioned but Towards Zero asks the right questions • Research + evaluation key to success • Targeting and designing measures • Knowledge transfer and catch up • Keeping safety on the public agenda www.international transport forum.org / research / safety

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