Highways England Investment and Casualty & Performance Targets David Stones Divisional Director – Highways England iRAP Innovation Workshop 2015, London, 15-16 September
Highways England Investment and
Casualty & Performance Targets
David Stones
Divisional Director – Highways England
iRAP Innovation Workshop 2015, London, 15-16 September
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2013 Ordnance Survey 100030649
• 4,300 miles (40% Motorway & 60% All Purpose Trunk Road).
• 34% of all road travel and 67% of lorry freight travel.
• 4 million vehicles use the
network daily.
• Traffic Officer Service
attend and clear over 7,000
live lane incidents every
month.
Highways England – Strategic Road Network
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Strategic Direction for Road User Safety
DfT
Road Investment
Strategy
1 December 2014
Highways
England Strategic
Business Plan
9 December 2014
Highways England
Delivery Plan
2015-2020
26 March 2015
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We will ensure that by the end of 2020 more that 90% of travel on the strategic road is on roads with a safety rating of EuroRAP 3* (or equivalent).
We will ensure that the majority of those roads with 1* and 2* safety rating have improved to 3*.
Alongside this we will work closely with the International Road Assessment Programme, the Road Safety Foundation and the Department for Transport to inform the development and adoption of the star rating system.
Delivery Plan Commitments – Star Rating
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Leadership & Culture
Competent People
Managing Risks
Measuring Performance
Engaging Stakeholders
31 Road User Actions in the Plan
Safety Plan – Launch October 2015
The Challenge
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Safety Performance
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2014 Safety Data
22,889Vehicles involved
4.4%
10,589Road traffic injury collisions
4.4%
16,814Resulting casualties
4.5%
8.6%Of all reported road casualties in
GB
211Killed
13.5%
1,642Seriously injured
12.1%
1,853KSI
8.4%
14,961Slightly injured
4.0%
Motorway A-road Dual A-road Single
KSI casualties
720 5.4%
716 14.4%
417 4.5%
Total casualties
8,191 4.5%
6,247 4.2%
2,376 5.3%
Safety Approach
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ROAD SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMCollect data and carry out evidential research to
monitor implementation and effectiveness of the vision
SAFER VEHICLESEncourage
deployment of improved
vehicle safety
technologies for both
active and passive safety.
SAFER PEOPLEDevelop
intelligence led,
innovative programmes to improve road user behaviour,
with measurable outcomes
POST COLLISION RESPONSEImprove post incident responsiveness to minimise
the impact on casualties and the road user
SAFER ROADSRaise
inherent safety and protective
quality of the network for
the benefit of ALL road
users.
MovingTowards:Pre-emptiveSafetyIncidentPreventionPartnershipWorking
Moving awayfrom:ReactiveSafetyFixingProblemsEngineeringFocus
Today Future
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Smart Motorway
All Purpose Trunk Road
Motorway
Expressway (visualisation)
Modern Infrastructure – Route Types
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Highways England Goals
• Our long term goal is a Smart
motorway spine linking
London, Birmingham,
Manchester and Leeds.1
• In addition to adding capacity
to the motorway network, we
will begin to upgrade some of
our most important major A
roads to the new Expressway
standard.2
1 Highways England Delivery Plan 2015-20202 Highways England Strategic Business Plan 2015-2020
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“Our busiest A-Roads will become Expressways,
providing improved standards of performance.
Improved design standards will give greater
consideration to the needs of walkers, cyclists
and local communities along with the aesthetic
appearance of the network.” DfT Road Investment Strategy
Source: Highways England Strategic Business Plan 2015-2020
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Road Investment Strategy – the network towards 2040
“By 2040, we want to
have transformed the
most important of
these routes into
Expressways”
DfT Road Investment Strategy
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