Road Safety
Guide to Road Safety Part 7: Road Safety Strategy and Management
- Publication no: AGRS07-24
- ISBN: 978-1-922994-33-2
- Published: 1 July 2024
- Edition: 2.0
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Austroads' Guide to Road Safety has been developed to provide an overview of road safety and road safety practices in Australia and New Zealand.
Guide to Road Safety Part 7: Road Safety Strategy and Management supports Australian and New Zealand jurisdictions to reach their national targets of zero road deaths and serious injuries by 2050 (and interim targets for 2030). The guide outlines a realistic, cost-effective Path to ‘Zero’ and aims to influence necessary leadership, enabling, professional, promotional, advocacy, training and change management activities to achieve this goal. The guide covers various aspects of road safety strategy and management, including leadership, stakeholder engagement, and institutional strengthening.
This Guide aims to provide integrated and coordinated strategic plans across all pillars of the Safe System to deliver on road safety targets in Australia and New Zealand. The Safe System approach has proven to reduce road deaths and serious injuries significantly, and the Guide introduces a novel Planning for Zero approach to reach the goal. To achieve this, several ‘Zero’ enabling actions are recommended, including the full and integrated implementation of national road safety strategies, effective leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement, and institutional strengthening.
This Guide is designed for road transport leaders, decision-makers, managers, and practitioners across all levels of government in Australia and New Zealand. It provides a comprehensive framework and an evidence-based approach to road safety strategy and management, focusing on practical steps to implement the Safe System approach and achieve the targets of zero road deaths and serious injuries by 2050.
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Navigating the Guide
- 1.2 Context to the Guide
- 1.3 Defining ‘Zero’ and ‘Planning for Zero’
- 1.4 Zero: enabling actions
- 2. Institutional Road Safety Management
- 2.1 Charting a Path to Zero (Planning for Zero approach) – conceptual model
- 2.2 Developing effective institutional road safety management frameworks
- 3. The Planning for Zero Approach
- 4. Planning for Zero: Road Safety Strategy Fundamentals
- 4.1 Road safety strategies
- 4.1.1 Benefits of road safety strategies
- 4.2 The social model approach to road safety
- 4.2.1 Analogies with preventive health and the justice system
- 4.2.2 Clarifying the efficacy of social model programs
- 4.3 Developing a road safety strategy
- 4.3.1 Terminology
- 4.3.2 Process
- 4.4 Strategies for different levels of government
- 4.5 Characteristics of road safety strategies
- 4.5.1 Guiding principles
- 4.5.2 Critical success factors
- 4.1 Road safety strategies
- 5. Planning for Zero: Partnerships and Consultation
- 6. Road Safety Strategies: Problem Analysis
- 6.1 Problem definition
- 6.2 Deeper understanding of the issues
- 6.2.1 Assessing network safety with AusRAP
- 6.3 General measures
- 6.4 Changes in population and travel
- 6.5 Additional data sources
- 6.6 Public opinion
- 6.7 Changes in society and technology
- 6.7.1 Societal change
- 6.7.2 Technological change
- 6.7.3 Addressing change
- 7. Road Safety Strategies: Countermeasure Selection
- 7.1 Conceptual frameworks for countermeasure selection
- 7.2 Selection of countermeasures
- 7.3 Legal issues
- 7.4 Social and economic appraisals
- 7.5 Other considerations
- 8. Road Safety Strategies: Target Setting and Safety Performance Indicators
- 8.1 Setting road safety targets
- 8.2 Safety performance indicators
- 8.2.1 Casualty based indicators
- 8.2.2 Intermediate goals
- 9. Road Safety Strategies: Strategy and Action Plan Development
- 10. Road Safety Strategies: Implementation
- 10.1 Stakeholders
- 10.2 Financing the road safety strategy
- 10.3 Implementation plan
- 10.4 Reporting
- 11. Road Safety Strategies: Monitoring and Evaluation
- 11.1 Monitoring strategic actions and targets
- 11.2 Road safety strategy process evaluation
- 11.3 Outcome and economic evaluation
- 11.4 Responsibility for monitoring and evaluation
- 11.5 Supporting materials on evaluation
- 12. Planning for Zero: Network Safety Plans
- 12.1 What is a network safety plan?
- 12.2 Developing and delivering network safety plans
- 13. Planning for Zero: Road Safety in the Road Transport System
- 13.1 What is the road transport system?
- 13.2 Road safety in the road transport system
- 14. Planning for Zero: Road Safety in the Road Management Process
- 14.1 Program development
- 14.2 Project scoping and development
- 14.3 Project implementation and review
- 14.4 Network operation
- 15. ‘Zero’ Delivery: Frameworks in the Road Transport System
- 16. Introduction to Risk Assessment and Risk Management
- 16.1 Definitions
- 16.2 Principles of risk assessment and risk management
- 16.3 Aims and benefits of risk management
- 16.4 Perception of risk
- 16.5 Barriers to the introduction of risk management
- 17. Principles of Risk Assessment and Risk Management
- 17.1 Road trauma
- 17.2 Principles
- 17.3 The risk management process
- 17.3.1 Communication and consultation
- 17.3.2 Scope, context and criteria
- 17.3.3 Identify risks
- 17.3.4 Analyse risks
- 17.3.5 Evaluate risks
- 17.3.6 Treat risks
- 17.3.7 Monitor and review
- 18. Risk Management: Establishing the Context
- 18.1 Legal context
- 18.1.1 Australia
- 18.1.2 New Zealand
- 18.2 Public opinion
- 18.1 Legal context
- 19. Risk Management: Identifying Risks
- 19.1 Road trauma
- 19.2 Legal risk
- 19.3 Risk from adverse public opinion
- 20. Risk Management: Analysing Risks
- 20.1 Sources of data
- 20.2 Quantitative approaches
- 20.3 Qualitative and semi-qualitative analysis
- 20.4 Data quality and integration
- 20.5 Cost-effective data collection
- 21. Risk Management: Evaluating and Prioritising Risks
- 21.1 Prioritising risks
- 21.1.1 Evaluation based on historic data
- 21.1.2 Evaluation where there is little historic data
- 21.1.3 Comparison between risk types
- 21.1.4 Examples
- 21.1 Prioritising risks
- 22. Risk Management: The Treatment of Risk
- 23. Risk Management: Monitoring and Review
- 24. ‘Zero’ Transformative Pathways
- 24.1 Federal government context
- 24.2 State government context
- 24.3 Local government context
- 24.4 Regional and remote areas
- References
- Appendix A Current Road Safety Strategies
- A.1 National strategies
- A.2 State and territory strategies
- A.3 Mode specific strategies
- Appendix B Haddon Matrix Conceptual Basis for Countermeasure Development
- Appendix C Detail of METS Modelling Approach to Target Setting
- Appendix D Detail of Swedish System-Wide Method for Modelling Road Trauma
- Appendix E Managing Risk Associated with Road Users
- E.1 Entry to the system
- E.1.1 Fitness to drive
- E.1.2 Driving licences
- E.1.3 Licences for other vehicles
- E.2 Removal from the system
- E.2.1 Fitness to drive
- E.2.2 Serious and repeat offenders
- E.3 Emerging possibilities
- E.3.1 Controlling access to the road transport system
- E.3.2 Eliminating possibilities for offending
- E.1 Entry to the system
- Appendix F Data Sources
- Appendix G Qualitative and Semi-Qualitative Analysis
- G.1 Risk classification
- G.2 Fault and success trees
- G.3 Cause-consequence diagram
- Appendix H Benefit Cost Analysis
- Appendix I Example Monitoring Databases
- I.1 New Zealand crash analysis system
- I.2 CMF clearinghouse
- Appendix J Further Information on the Local Government Context
- J.1 Local government road safety and community
- J.2 Strategic role of local government
- J.3 Local government’s duty of care as a road authority
- J.4 Direct actions to improve road safety through council operations
- J.4.1 Action as a road authority
- J.4.2 Action as a planning authority
- J.4.3 Action as an employer and fleet operator
- J.5 Local government and community road safety programs in the context of the safe system
- J.6 Objectives of community road safety
- J.7 Requirements for sustainable community action
- J.8 Strategic partnership and capacity building
- J.9 Capacity building and social capital formation
- J.9.1 The concepts
- J.9.2 Application to social policy
- J.10 Resources for implementing a road safety plan
- J.11 Sources of funding
- J.12 Mobilising resources
- J.13 Implementation
- J.14 Monitoring, evaluation and review
- J.14.1 Process evaluation
- J.14.2 Outcome evaluation and the challenge of small numbers
- J.14.3 Assessment in light of the full range of objectives
- J.14.4 Program delivery outcomes
- J.14.5 Human capital outcomes
- J.14.6 Social capital outcomes
- J.14.7 Social network analysis
- J.14.8 Process evaluation
- J.14.9 Towards a comprehensive evaluation process
- J.15 Review
- J.16 Communication and reporting
- J.16.1 Reports to council and to the central authority
- J.16.2 Communication with participants in the road safety program
- J.16.3 Communication with the public
- J.16.4 Communication with other communities
- Appendix K Further Information on Regional and Remote Areas
- K.1 Context
- K.1.1 Defining regional and remote areas
- K.2 Crashes in regional and remote areas
- K.3 Crashes on regional and remote roads
- K.4 Casualties on regional and remote roads
- K.5 Summary of regional and remote crash trends
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