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La Dirección General de Tráfico

Powered Two Wheelers (PTWs): Lessons learned and future challenges Candelaria Mederos Head of Planning and Participation National Road Safety Observatory General Traffic Directorate (DGT) Barcelona, May 2010. La Dirección General de Tráfico. 5.500 professionals. 10.300 officers.

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La Dirección General de Tráfico

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  1. Powered Two Wheelers (PTWs): Lessons learned and future challengesCandelaria MederosHead of Planning and ParticipationNational Road Safety ObservatoryGeneral Traffic Directorate (DGT)Barcelona, May 2010

  2. La Dirección General de Tráfico 5.500 professionals 10.300 officers Corporate Services Regional Offices (50) Traffic Management Centres (7) CTDA (automated processing of tickets and fines) Traffic Police (Guardia Civil) General Secretariat SDG Traffic Management and Mobility SDG Education and Training SDG Legal Affairs IT services National Road Safety Observatory 26 million 8.000 18.000 18 Km of fiber optic DGT vehicles helicopters drivers in Spain 1.500 3.500 road information displays 30 million DGT motorcycles vehicles in Spain 100.000 1.500 Surveillance cameras accidents 1 million 3 million new driving licenses procedures per year

  3. Recent developments • In 2007, Powered Two Wheelers entered, for the first time, the Spanish road safety agenda on its own foot: • More than 4 million vehicles (14,5% of the total number of vehicles) and a growth rate in the last three years of up to 40%. • Contribution to the overall figures was (and still is) much higher than its relative importance: • 8% of vehicles involved in accidents. • 25% of victims. • 17% of total deaths in traffic accidents. • It was (and is not any more) the only way of transport whose number of deaths and severely injured was rising. Between 2003 and 2007: • the number of motorcyclist killed on roads rose by 77%. • the number of severely injured in urban areas rose by 74%.

  4. Recent developments • During 2007, DGT sets-up and leads a working group devoted to draw-up and implement a Road Safety Plan for Motorcycles and Mopeds. • The Plan bases on the Shared Vision of its 12 stakeholders. • The joint work comprised obtaining: • A common understanding of the problem • A clear definition of priorities and • A consensus with respect to the solutions • It is worth noticing that not every working group member agreed with all the countermeasures proposed by the plan: consensus does not mean full-agreement! • In January 2008, the Road Safety Plan begins implementation.

  5. The PTW Road Safety Plan • The solution tree was structured into 4 areas: • Preparing motor bikers for safe driving • Minimization of high-siniestrality scenarios • Avoiding risky practices • Adopting alleviating measures • These 4 fields of action are in turn subdivided into12 programs that frame the 36 measures proposed in the Plan. • The measures must be "filled-in" with specific actions. The plan provides with 24 actions to be implemented during the first year.

  6. Selected actions...and lessons learned A specific mass media communication campaign on PTW safety is cost-effective: Mass-media communication campaign in 2008 and 2009 Protecting guardrails with special security systems is not a panacea but it does save lives: Guardrails replacement and protection Improving the access to PTWs: Large social consensus to introduce a more progressive system The development of a voluntary training market for motorcyclist is a big and still unresolved challenge:Specific Working Group devoted to voluntary training There is a need to produce more and better PTW-related information and knowledge:Research programme on PTWs Sponsoring and coordinating multi-agents' communication and enforcement campaigns is a good idea:Special multi-agent campaign for the enforcement and promotion of the use of helmet in Southern Spain

  7. Ensuring road safety for PTW users in urban areas is a growing priority:DGT is fully committed to promoting the adoption of E-SUM measures by Spanish cities!! Between 2007 and 2008 fatalities decreased less in urban areas (20%) than in roads (24%) Bikers killed on roads and urban areas Killed in roads Killed in urban area 31% of bikers are killed in urban areas: 214 in 2008 Fuente: DGT. Observatorio Nacional de Seguridad Vial

  8. The way ahead • Road Safety Strategic Plan for 2010-2020 has set six priorities: • Vulnerable users • Urban areas • Motorcyclists • Conventional roads • Road Safety at Work • Risk factors: alcohol and speed 20% decrease in the number of killed plus seriously injured over the period

  9. www.motocicletasyseguridadvial.com www.dgt.es observatorio@dgt.es National Road Safety Observatory 9

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