Towards Zero: Ambitious Road Safety Targets and the Safe System Approach Stephen Perkins OECD-ITF Joint Transport Research Centre
Jan 03, 2016
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• Spain
– Candelaria Mederos-Cruz, DGT– Juan Carlos Gonzalez Luque, DGT
Targets: ECMT 50% 2000-2012
Total ECMT
0
20000
40000
60000
80000
100000
120000
140000
160000
1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012
Source: ECMT Fatalities Target Linear (Fatalities)
ProgressDeaths 2006 Deaths / 100 000
2005Annual
improvement: 2000-2007
Improvement to meet target:
2008-2012
Portugal 969 12-8.8% -0.9%
France 4709 9-7.7% -2.6%
Netherlands 730 5-5.9% -5.3%
Spain 4104 10-5.7% -5.5%
UK 3298 6-2.2% -10.2%
Romania 2478 121.6% -14.9%
Russia 32724 241.7% -15.0%
Strategy
• 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
• Intensify / transfer tried and tested measures:– Speed, Drink, Seatbelts, Safer vehicles
Safe System Targets
• Vision – zero deaths– Raises level of ambition– Stimulates new measures and research– Only ethical approach– Possible to achieve
• Zero child cyclists killed in Sweden in 2008, 1 child pedestrian
• 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
Discussing the Safe System with senior policy makers
Michèle Merli, FranceIsabelle Kardacz, ECPere Navarro, Spain
Conclusions Tested at the High Level Seminar
• General support for the 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
• IRTAD data and analysis session at 16:00 today
www.international transport forum.org/ research / safety