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Eleven Years of Road Safety Audit. What Now?

Eleven Years of Road Safety Audit. What Now?. Road Safety Audit. Way of checking safety of new schemes Does it? Prevents new schemes becoming future collision sites Has it?. Road Safety Audit - History. On National Roads since December 2000 Any change to the road layout

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Eleven Years of Road Safety Audit. What Now?

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  1. Eleven Years of Road Safety Audit. What Now?

  2. Road Safety Audit • Way of checking safety of new schemes • Does it? • Prevents new schemes becoming future collision sites • Has it?

  3. Road Safety Audit - History • On National Roads since December 2000 • Any change to the road layout – includes private developments • On non-national roads, Circular RLR 16 of 2008 requires RSA

  4. National Road Network 5,400km 6% of network 40% of traffic

  5. Stages of Audit • Stage F Feasibility • Stage 1 Preliminary design • Stage 2 Detailed design • Stage 3 Prior to opening • Monitoring after 3 years and 6 years – by NRA

  6. Eleven years of Audits • 11 years 2001 - 2011 • 1183 audits approved • 928 schemes

  7. Audits Each YearPeak of 200, now roughly 60/yr

  8. Figures up and down, peaking in 2008 • Only have first quarter of 2012, but shows a small projected increase.

  9. Audits Each Year – 2012 projected

  10. Audit Stage Each Year

  11. Many more stage 1 than stage 2 • Development schemes are required by planning depts to do stage 1, then later stages not done - forgotten • Major schemes done by D&B and PPP have stage 1 done 5 or 6 times, as each consortium produces an audit • Figures are audits APPROVED – Many project managers have failed to get continuing approval for subsequent audits

  12. Very few stage 3 • Small proportion of schemes not implemented although design done • Later stage audits not done - forgotten • No continuing approval for subsequent audits - approval is not asked for, although audit is done. This issue has been addressed in RSAAS

  13. Majority have only one audit • Only 9% of all registered schemes have more than one approved stage of audit • This figure is 2% for Development schemes • Only 12% of schemes have a stage 3 audit approved • 5 % for Development schemes

  14. Audit Stage Each Year

  15. Audit Stage by year – LA Scheme

  16. Local Authority/ NRA Schemes • Large number of stage 3 in 2008 • A lot of MIUs came to completion • Big leap in stage 2 last year • Probably because smaller NRA & LA schemes are now getting audits done • These have no stage 1, just a stage 1-2, which is effectively a stage 2

  17. Audit Stage by year – Development

  18. Development/ Planning Schemes • Lack of stage 3 much more marked • Only 2% of all schemes have stage 3 audit • Proportion not implemented greater • Two graphs at roughly same scale • Many more developments than LA schemes over past 11 years, especially 2005-2008 • Now much reduced

  19. Audits Each Year LA Scheme/ Development

  20. Audit Stage by year – LA Scheme

  21. Audit Stage by year – Development

  22. Eleven years of Auditors • 289 Auditors approved • Surge of 53 in first year - 2001 • Settled to 20 - 25 new auditors each year

  23. New Auditors Each Year

  24. Road Safety Audit Approvals System • RSAAS in operation since start of 2010 • Online system • 102 auditors on the system • 61 existing auditors re-registered, 41 new • Mostly (80%) Consultants

  25. Auditors on RSAAS – 102

  26. Auditors • Out of 289 approved auditors: • Over 40% of all audits in 11 years done by small group Just 15 auditors - 5% of all • In recent years (RSAAS) Out of 102 approved auditors : • Active 5% of auditors now doing 35% of all audits • All consultants

  27. Is Road Safety Audit Working?Yes • Way of checking safety of new schemes • System now firmly established • Most schemes undergo audit at some stage, if not all required stages • Concept of safety audit is now accepted by designers • “Safe” design automatically and perhaps subconsciously included in new designs • RSIA included as integral part of design process

  28. Road Safety Engineers Road Designers Road Safety Auditors RSA feedback to road design

  29. Is Road Safety Audit Working?Yes • Prevents new schemes becoming future accident sites • Still seeing a few new collision clusters on recently built schemes, but not as many as in earlier times

  30. Eleven years on What has been achieved? • Over 900 schemes have been examined • Should be no serious road-related safety flaw in these schemes • Road design process now automatically considers safety

  31. Stephen Lambert Regional Road Safety Engineer, North Region “ To provide a safe and efficient National Road network

  32. Why are we here? Everybody here is involved in the design, provision and operation of the road network. The NRA and the DOE are committed to the provision and operation of a safe and efficient road network. “ To provide a safe and efficient National Road network

  33. 3224 2001 to 2010 1852011 “ To provide a safe and efficient National Road network

  34. This is no Accident Milestones since 1994 1994 NRA Mandate,“to provide a safe and efficient road network” 1995 NRA’s first allocations for “Low Cost Safety Schemes 1996 NRA Authorised to set up a Road Safety Section 1996 DOE Promoted the Road Safety Working Groups 1997 NSC Set out Road Safety Strategy 1997 to 2002 1997 Operation Life Saver, launched in Louth initially 1999 First serious use of the National Accident Database with Mapping 1999 NRDO’s established “ To provide a safe and efficient National Road network

  35. This is no Accident Milestones since 1994 1999 RSA promoted by NRA 2001 Joint Task Force to deal with a defined section of a national road 2001 Colloision Prevention Programme rolled out nationally 2002 Penalty Points System (31/10/2002, 50% reduction in fatalities for 4 month) 2004 Penalty Points system extended 2006 RSA Set up. Co-ordinate all aspects of road user safety education and Vehicle testing 2006 Random Breathe Tests become legal “ To provide a safe and efficient National Road network

  36. This is no Accident Milestones since 1994 2007 Traffic and Transport Assessments adopted Just in time to miss the Celtic Tiger! 2008 Driver Learning Permits, 250,000 provisional licences replaced 2010 MIU’s completed 2010 “Go-Safe” vans launched 2010 Roll out of Primary and Secondary School’s Road Safety Courses 2011 Production of Third Level Road Safety Programme 2011 Mandatory Breathe testing of drivers involved in RTCs 2011 Mandatory registered driving lessons before being tested “ To provide a safe and efficient National Road network

  37. This is no Accident Milestones since 1994 That summary of some of the miles-stones was to show the wide range of initiatives being undertaken by a lot of agencies and people across a lot of disciplines to make the roads safer. None of us have all the answers but unless we work together none of us will learn anything or get anywhere. “ To provide a safe and efficient National Road network

  38. NRA and DoE Road Safety Remedial Measures Programmes In 1995 when the “Low Cost Schemes” were first introduced, a lot could be done with very little. Schemes costs ranged from IR£500 to IR£20,000 for a big scheme. By 2011 scheme costs ranged up to over €1 Million. The low hanging fruit is gone or very scarce. “ To provide a safe and efficient National Road network

  39. Road Safety Audit and the NRDO’s In 1999 at the NRA Road’s Conference the SA system was promoted to be implemented in conjunction with the development of the NRDO network. Road Safety Audit was proposed for two reasons: To ensure that designs coming forward for new schemes would not create unforeseen hazards or to bring such hazards to the attention of designers so they were aware of them and decide what, if anything, could be done to reduce or eliminate the associated risks to future road users. To raise the awareness of designers to road related road safety issues such that almost without thinking about it, potential hazards are designed out of proposed schemes. “ To provide a safe and efficient National Road network

  40. Route Assessment and Treatment This year the EU’s Directive on Route Safety Inspections is timely in Ireland’s case. A Road Safety Inspection used in conjunction with the accident database should: Identify hazardous locations along a route, amenable to a series of “low cost” remedial measures suitable for that section. Identify more difficult specific hazards not suitable to “low cost” remedial measures and rank these sites for further investigation and treatment Identify opportunities to improve the “clear-zone” Where none of the above are possible, the overall ranking of the network could be used to prioritise major improvement schemes in 2014, when the country is out of recession. Harry will be talking about the RSIs. “ To provide a safe and efficient National Road network

  41. 1994 to present A lot has been achieved. Many lives have been saved but where do we go for the next 18 years and how do we get there? Ireland has one of the best crash databases in Europe. The database is used to target the causes of crashes. Forbes has already spoken about the source of the data. “ To provide a safe and efficient National Road network

  42. The database is used to identify all manner of trends in relation to crashes. Apart from identifying sections of road with higher than average predicted incidents it is used to identify: Month, Time of day, Day of the week Road User Profile, age, sex, drink, local, purpose of journey etc Environmental Profile, wet weather, skidding, surface condition etc Relative risk Collision type, pedestrian, SVC, head-on etc Looking at some of these……….. “ To provide a safe and efficient National Road network

  43. “ To provide a safe and efficient National Road network

  44. Fatal Crashes “ To provide a safe and efficient National Road network

  45. Fatal Crashes “ To provide a safe and efficient National Road network

  46. All Injury Crashes Fatal Crashes “ To provide a safe and efficient National Road network

  47. 1/2MV2 = Kinetic Energy M = Mass V = Speed in M/S Double the speed Quadruple the energy “ To provide a safe and efficient National Road network

  48. Combining risk per hour, age profile, day of the week and behaviour it is clear why young drivers in rural areas are over represented in road crashes. 1/2MV2 = Kinetic Energy M = Mass V = Speed in M/S Double the speed Quadruple the energy “ To provide a safe and efficient National Road network

  49. SVCs in Rural Areas Rural Public Transport? Commuters Near Larger Cities Multi-Storey Park and Rides near main Inter-urbans Pedestrians and Cyclists in Urban Areas 30KmPH Speed Limits? “ To provide a safe and efficient National Road network

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