Knowledge Hub

Around 1,500 people lose their lives and more than 42,000 people are seriously injured on the roads of Australia and New Zealand each year. In response, governments across Australia and New Zealand have adopted long term road safety ambitions and interim targets aimed at eliminating road deaths and serious injuries.

Globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030 set a primary target to halve global road traffic deaths and injuries by 2030. Building on this, the long-term target aims to eliminate all road fatalities by 2050, often called Vision Zero.

Charting a Path to Eliminating Road Death and Serious Injury provides practical guidance to support jurisdictions in developing pathways towards a Safe System future with no deaths or serious injuries.

The knowledge hub brings together evidence, tools and resources to support stronger road safety management, Planning for Zero, and the transformational change needed to achieve sustained reductions in road trauma.

It is designed primarily for road authorities, road safety leaders, policy makers, planners, designers and practitioners across all levels of government, while also supporting governments, road safety partners, industry, researchers, advocacy groups and others working towards the elimination of serious trauma.

Note that, for the sake of simplicity, much of the material in this Knowledge Hub refers to jurisdictions and/or road authorities. The intention is that this material can be applied in local, state/territory and national level governments.