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Building a Five-Star Future for Australian Roads Mr Alan Evans President

Building a Five-Star Future for Australian Roads Mr Alan Evans President Australian Automobile Association BTRE Transport Colloquium 14 June 2007. Building a Five-Star Future for Australian Roads. The Role of AAA and Motoring Clubs The Australian Road Assessment Program (AusRAP)

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Building a Five-Star Future for Australian Roads Mr Alan Evans President

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  1. Building a Five-Star Future for Australian Roads Mr Alan Evans President Australian Automobile Association BTRE Transport Colloquium 14 June 2007

  2. Building a Five-Star Future for Australian Roads • The Role of AAA and Motoring Clubs • The Australian Road Assessment Program (AusRAP) • The North-South Corridor • NRMA Pacific Highway Audit • The Human & Economic Cost of Road Safety • The Solution • What is Needed • The National Road Safety Strategy

  3. The Australian Road Assessment Program(AusRAP) • Safer Systems – Safer Drivers in Safer Cars on Safer Roads • AusRAP - Star Rating Australia’s Roads for Safety • Two protocols – Risk Mapping/Star Ratings • 51% of National AusLink Network Rated 3 Stars • 3 Stars is Unacceptable for a National Highway • Corridor is less than 3% of Australia’s Road Network • Carries 15% of Nation’s Road Traffic • Accounts for 14% of Road Deaths in Australia (2000-04)

  4. The North-South Corridor • North-South Corridor Vital to Australian Economy • 40% of all road freight movements use Hume Highway • Heavily Trafficked Rail Freight Network • Syd-Melb Freight Traffic up 70% over next 20 years • Both Rail and Road Freight growing around 2.6%pa • 5-6,000 truck movements daily along the Hume by 2025 • Syd-Melb Rail Transit Times 13hrs – 10hrs for road • 2006 Budget - $800m to Hume Upgrades • Melbourne-Albury Link Rated 4 Stars • Pacific Highway the Focus for Current and Future Efforts

  5. NRMA Audit of Pacific Highway • Over past 16 years, infrastructure has gone backwards • 680km Hexham to Qld – 442km still to be upgraded • 120 fatalities over past 3 years, 1,722 casualties • B-Doubles up 400% on some sections of Pacific • Trucks switching from New England to Pacific Highway

  6. The Human and Economic Cost • National Net Road Stock 10% of GDP – 22% in 1960 (CEDA Infrastructure Report – 2005) • Road Investment Provides a 5:1 Benefit Cost Ratio (CEDA Infrastructure Report – 2005) • Urban Road Congestion to cost $29.7 billion by 2015 (AusLink 2004) • Road Crashes and Trauma Costs $17 billion a year (Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health – 2006)

  7. The Solution The Good • Yelgun to Chinderah Freeway Bypass • Woodend Bypass in Victoria • Albury-Wodonga Bypass To Do • McLean to Yelgun • Nabiac to Taree • Nagambie to Shepparton Bypass • Upgraded Hume/Pacific Highways • Duplication of M2 to F3 link in Sydney • Upgrade New England Highway • Western Brisbane Bypass • Upgrades to Pacific Motorway

  8. The National Road Safety Strategy • NRSS aim of 40% fatality rate reduction off target • NRSS target – 1999 9.3 deaths per 100k to 5.6 by 2010 • 2007 road fatality rate 7.8 way off target • Higher than January 2005 rate of 7.6 deaths per 100k • Need to bring that figure down

  9. THANK YOU

  10. Building a Five-Star Future for Australian Roads Mr Alan Evans President Australian Automobile Association BTRE Transport Colloquium 14 June 2007

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