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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
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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
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, France Isabelle Kardacz, EC Pere 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