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The importance of road safety for passenger transport

The importance of road safety for passenger transport. Istanbul, 11 May 2011. Yves Mannaerts Deputy Managing Director FBAA. What is Smart Move?. What is Smart Move?. Smart Move objectives.

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The importance of road safety for passenger transport

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  1. The importance of road safety for passenger transport Istanbul, 11 May 2011 Yves Mannaerts Deputy Managing Director FBAA (c) IRU Academy 2011

  2. Whatis Smart Move? (c) IRU Academy 2011

  3. What is Smart Move? (c) IRU Academy 2011

  4. Smart Move objectives Political objective: Change the perception of buses and coaches in society, starting by decision and opinion makers (favourable and appropriatelegislaition) Business objective : Doubling the use of buses and coaches in the next 10-15 years (c) IRU Academy 2011

  5. We are the Smart Move (c) IRU Academy 2011

  6. We are the Smart Move (c) IRU Academy 2011

  7. We are the Smart Move (c) IRU Academy 2011

  8. Bus & coaches are safety champions From 2007 to 2008, bus and coach passengers represented a mere 0.57% of road fatalities in the European Union, which is even less than the 0.79% share attributed to agricultural tractors! (c) IRU Academy 2011

  9. Bus and coaches are safety champions As a rule, other modes of transport are much safer than transport by road, with the exception of buses and coaches. Buses and coaches offer comparable levels of safety to other collective passenger transport modes, operating in a secured environment or on a dedicated infrastructure. German figures even show that fatality rates in bus and coach transport (0.2 fatalities per 1 billion passenger kilometres) are significantly lower than those of any other mode of land transport (trains - 0.6, cars - 5.6, motorbikes - 60.9).   Similar figures are reported in the US, where the bus and coach fatality rate is the lowest at 0.4 fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles. For passenger cars the fatality rate is 3.5 times higher.   In Australia, travelling to school by bus is 7 times safer than driving to school in the family car, 31 times safer than walking to school and 228 times safer than cycling. (c) IRU Academy 2011

  10. Bus and coach industry wantsto remain the safety champion Professional bus and coach drivers are a key asset to the passenger road transport industry. Life-long learning has long been a reality for professional bus and coach drivers. Bus and coach drivers in many countries, unlike regular road users, are bound by law to undergo extensive training to pass stringent supplementary theory and driving tests. They must also pass a special medical examination.   To further help drivers keep up with the latest technology and driving techniques, such as eco-driving, manufacturers and transport managers alike provide their drivers with a wide variety of training courses, a development which has had an enormous impact on bus and coach safety and service quality. (c) IRU Academy 2011

  11. Bus and coach industry wants to remain the safety champion • The Smart Move 2011 safety-related actions • Suporting the UN decade of actions of road safety • Collecting best company practices in road safety • Disseminating best practices and drivers’ checklists accros the world, includingthrough the Smart Move 9-languagewebsite • Collecting and disseminatingstatistics on road safety (c) IRU Academy 2011

  12. Safety – the Smart Move 2011 priority (c) IRU Academy 2011

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