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R Mcinerney - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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THE Road Safety RISK MANAGER: GAME, SET, MATCH FOR MANAGING YOUR Road Safety INTERVENTIONS
2020Co-Authors: R McinerneyAbstract:Local government Road authorities are under increasing pressure and necessity to manage Road Safety related issues under their control. With the High Court decision in May 2001 it is now critical that authorities adopt a proactive approach to managing Road Safety risk. The ARRB Transport Research and AustRoads developed Road Safety Risk Manager will provide authorities with a powerful tool to manage, prioritise and track the status of Road Safety issues on their networks. The focus of the software is to provide Road Safety professionals with a tool to proactively assess Road Safety hazards and treatments for the purpose of prioritising actions. When the game is selecting which treatment will provide the greatest return the Road Safety Risk Manager can help practitioners win the game! The software also provides a simple way to track the status of any issue or record any actions taken, allowing traceability and transparency in decision making, and assisting Road Safety managers demonstrate a responsible approach to managing Road Safety risk. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E209607.
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THE Road Safety RISK MANAGER: MAXIMISING THE VALUE OF Road Safety ENGINEERING
2020Co-Authors: R Mcinerney, G Giummarra, R Butter, P LuongAbstract:Australia must continue to strive for a lower Road toll. Local government has the challenge of providing a Road network that is safe and limits the negative impacts of Road trauma. To achieve this we need to get back to engineering and ensure we develop Road programs that maximise Road Safety benefits, and at the same time meet contribute to meeting Council's duty of care. The Road Safety Risk Manager developed by ARRB Transport Research in association with AustRoads, is providing authorities with a powerful tool to manage, prioritise and track the status of Road Safety issues on their networks and develop annual engineering works programs. The practical experiences of the Hobsons Bay City Council in using the Road Safety Risk Manager are discussed, and applications for its use explored. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E210218.
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THE Road Safety RISK MANAGER: SOFTWARE TO SUCCESSFULLY MANAGE YOUR Road Safety RISK
2020Co-Authors: F Green, R McinerneyAbstract:The Road Safety Risk Manager, developed by ARRB Transport Research and AustRoads, will provide authorities with a powerful tool to manage, prioritise and track the status of Road Safety issues on their networks. The focus of the software is to provide Road Safety professionals with a tool to proactively assess Road Safety hazards and treatments for the purpose of prioritising actions. The Road Safety Risk Manager provides users with simple wizards, look-up tables and help functions to assess the risk associated with hazards and treatments, and ultimately calculate a Risk Reduction-Cost Ratio that can be used to prioritise treatments. Based on extensive research that commenced in 1998 the system is user friendly and suitable for use by auditors, investigators, project managers and asset owners. Following the collection of site information, the tool allows the assessment of individual hazards and treatments in 5-10 minutes. With the reporting and budget analysis tools provided, the software can meet the specific needs of risk identification, risk management and the development of remedial treatment programs. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E208290.
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The Road Safety Risk Manager: maximising the value of Road Safety engineering
Road & Transport Research, 2004Co-Authors: R Mcinerney, G Giummarra, R Butter, P LuongAbstract:Australia must continue to strive for a lower Road toll. Local government has the challenge of providing a Road network that is safe and limits the negative impacts of Road trauma. To achieve this we need to get back to engineering and ensure that we develop Road programs that maximise Road Safety benefits, and at the same time contribute to meeting council's duty of care. The Road Safety Risk Manager, developed by ARRB Transport Research in association with AustRoads, is providing authorities with a powerful tool to manage, prioritise and track the status of Road Safety issues on their networks and develop annual engineering works programs. The practical experiences of the Hobsons Bay City Council in using the Road Safety Risk Manager are discussed, and applications for its use explored.
George Yannis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Improving Road Safety knowledge in Africa through crowdsourcing: the African Road Safety Observatory
Transportation research procedia, 2020Co-Authors: Davide Shingo Usami, Luca Persia, Eleonora Meta, Alessia Fava, Anastasiya Azarko, Maria Rosaria Saporito, Noella Baja Kunsoan, Peter Taniform, Stergios Mavromatis, George YannisAbstract:Abstract Africa is the worst performing continent in Road Safety: the fatality rate, 26.6 per 100.000 inhabitants, is almost three times that of Europe’s and fatalities per capita are projected to double from 2015 to 2030 (WHO, 2015). This is mainly due to the fact that Emerging Economies are experiencing increases in traffic, for which their traffic systems are not sufficiently prepared. On one hand, there is a significant demand for data and knowledge to be used for Road Safety-related decision making. On the other hand, there is a substantial lack of a reliable and detailed knowledge on Road casualties in terms of the number of Road accidents and fatalities occurring and, on the factors, leading to Road accidents or affecting their consequences. When official data are poor or missing these could be integrated with other sources. The objective of this paper is to describe the African Road Safety Observatory (African RSO), a participative web portal developed in the field of the "SaferAfrica – Innovating dialogue and problems appraisal for a safer Africa" project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program. The African RSO combines traditional functions of analyzing and sharing Road Safety performance data and provide knowledge and information, with the more innovative ones: a Dialogue Platform and the crowdsourcing tool. The Dialogue Platform is dedicated to experts and stakeholders and aims at encouraging and facilitating a constructive engagement and dialogue on Road Safety in Africa, producing knowledge to inspire Road Safety funding, policies and interventions in Africa and providing recommendations to update the African Road Safety Action Plan and the African Road Safety Charter. The crowdsourcing tool allows African citizens to report and highlight Road Safety needs, to share opinions as well as to discuss solutions in their own Countries.
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Is Road Safety management linked to Road Safety performance
Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2013Co-Authors: Evangelia Papadimitriou, George YannisAbstract:This research aims to explore the relationship between Road Safety management and Road Safety performance at country level. For that purpose, an appropriate theoretical framework is selected, namely the ‘SUNflower’ pyramid, which describes Road Safety management systems in terms of a five-level hierarchy: (i) structure and culture, (ii) programmes and measures, (iii) ‘intermediate’ outcomes’ – Safety performance indicators (SPIs), (iv) final outcomes – fatalities and injuries, and (v) social costs. For each layer of the pyramid, a composite indicator is implemented, on the basis of data for 30 European countries. Especially as regards Road Safety management indicators, these are estimated on the basis of Categorical Principal Component Analysis upon the responses of a dedicated Road Safety management questionnaire, jointly created and dispatched by the ETSC/PIN group and the ‘DaCoTA’ research project. Then, quasi-Poisson models and Beta regression models are developed for linking Road Safety management indicators and other indicators (i.e. background characteristics, SPIs) with Road Safety performance. In this context, different indicators of Road Safety performance are explored: mortality and fatality rates, percentage reduction in fatalities over a given period, a composite indicator of Road Safety final outcomes, and a composite indicator of ‘intermediate’ outcomes (SPIs). The results of the analyses suggest that Road Safety management can be described on the basis of three composite indicators: “vision and strategy”, “budget, evaluation and reporting”, and “measurement of Road user attitudes and behaviours”. Moreover, no direct statistical relationship could be established between Road Safety management indicators and final outcomes. However, a statistical relationship was found between Road Safety management and ‘intermediate’ outcomes, which were in turn found to affect ‘final’ outcomes, confirming the SUNflower approach on the consecutive effect of each layer.
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Road Safety in Greece
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2012Co-Authors: George Yannis, Evangelia PapadimitriouAbstract:The objective of this research is the analysis of Road Safety in Greece. For that purpose, the SUNflower footprint methodology is used, in which a country's Road Safety level is analysed hierarchically in relation to all components of the Road Safety system, from structure and culture elements, to the existing programmes and measures, to the performance indicators reflecting the current Road Safety operational level, to the number of outcomes (i.e. Road accidents and casualties) resulting from this Road Safety level and to the eventual social costs. A wealth of data is gathered and analysed in this framework, including data from the Hellenic Statistical Authority and other national data sources, as well as from various international data files (CARE, ERSO, Eurostat, IRTAD, etc.) and research projects (e.g. SARTRE). The analysis confirmed that Greece is one of the worst performing countries in the European Union in terms of Road Safety. The yearly social costs of Road accidents are estimated to 4 billion Euros. Moreover, Greece is characterised by increased traffic of motorcycles and pedestrians, which is associated with a considerable proportion of total fatalities, summing up to 42%. Greek drivers present aggressive and risk-taking behavior, as well as low compliance to traffic rules. Nevertheless, fatalities have decreased over time, namely by 37% compared to the century start, due to a significant increase of Road Safety enforcement, a new and stricter Road Code, as well as a large programme of motorway development during the last decade. Finally, the (until recently) lack of a central authority in charge of Road Safety results in limited efficiency of the implementation of quite a few Road Safety programmes and measures foreseen at the national strategic plans of the last decade.
P Luong - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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THE Road Safety RISK MANAGER: MAXIMISING THE VALUE OF Road Safety ENGINEERING
2020Co-Authors: R Mcinerney, G Giummarra, R Butter, P LuongAbstract:Australia must continue to strive for a lower Road toll. Local government has the challenge of providing a Road network that is safe and limits the negative impacts of Road trauma. To achieve this we need to get back to engineering and ensure we develop Road programs that maximise Road Safety benefits, and at the same time meet contribute to meeting Council's duty of care. The Road Safety Risk Manager developed by ARRB Transport Research in association with AustRoads, is providing authorities with a powerful tool to manage, prioritise and track the status of Road Safety issues on their networks and develop annual engineering works programs. The practical experiences of the Hobsons Bay City Council in using the Road Safety Risk Manager are discussed, and applications for its use explored. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E210218.
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The Road Safety Risk Manager: maximising the value of Road Safety engineering
Road & Transport Research, 2004Co-Authors: R Mcinerney, G Giummarra, R Butter, P LuongAbstract:Australia must continue to strive for a lower Road toll. Local government has the challenge of providing a Road network that is safe and limits the negative impacts of Road trauma. To achieve this we need to get back to engineering and ensure that we develop Road programs that maximise Road Safety benefits, and at the same time contribute to meeting council's duty of care. The Road Safety Risk Manager, developed by ARRB Transport Research in association with AustRoads, is providing authorities with a powerful tool to manage, prioritise and track the status of Road Safety issues on their networks and develop annual engineering works programs. The practical experiences of the Hobsons Bay City Council in using the Road Safety Risk Manager are discussed, and applications for its use explored.
Joanna Zukowska - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Road Safety Observatories - an Element of Systemic Road Safety Action on the Example of the Polish Region of Warmia and Mazury
2020Co-Authors: Joanna Zukowska, Krzysztof PiskorzAbstract:The paper outlines the background and goals of the Road Safety Observatory in the Polish region of Warmia and Mazury. It is Poland’s first Road Safety Observatory, both at the regional and central level. Established in line with the methodology proposed in the European project SafetyNet, together with the planned National Road Safety Observatory it will form part of a Europe-wide network of observatories linked with the European Road Safety Observatory (ERSO). The main goal of the Warmia-Mazury Road Safety Observatory was to support the Road Safety management system by providing a platform for exchanging information about Road Safety focussing on those Road Safety aspects that are characteristic for Warmia-Mazury region.
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UN decade of action for Road Safety in the national Road Safety strategy until 2020 : Polish approach
2020Co-Authors: Lech Michalski, Kazimierz Jamroz, Joanna ZukowskaAbstract:Poland continues to have the highest number of Road deaths per one million population in the European Union, according to a 2012 European Commission report – in 2011 the rate in Poland was 109 fatalities compared to the EU average of 61 killed. Adopted by the government in 2005 Poland’s National Road Safety Programme GAMBIT 2005 was the response to the EU’s 3rd Road Safety Action Programme. Despite extensive Road Safety efforts, the goal of Programme will not be fully met mainly due to lack of political and operational leadership and poor cooperation between Road Safety bodies. Work on a new National Road Safety Programme for the years 2013-2020 began in 2012 and were carried out by the National Road Safety Council. The authors of the paper supported the works, so that new strategy draws on the experience from the previous programme GAMBIT 2005 and addresses the challenges brought by European Union programmes and UN programmes. As a results this strategy follows several key principles like: – system-based approach to Road Safety management, – setting final and interim targets, – Road Safety improvement based on “Vision Zero” and “Safe system” with strategic interventions comprising the basic pillars of Safety: Road Safety management, safe Road, safe vehicle, safe Road users, post crash response, – focussing on the main Road Safety problems when identifying the priority interventions, – integrated approach to the selection of specific measures based on the 3E principle. The mentioned above approach was implemented in new National Road Safety Programme adopted by the National Road Safety Council in 2013.
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Road Safety in Poland
2008Co-Authors: Ryszard Krystek, Joanna ZukowskaAbstract:This article, from a special issue on Road Safety, reviews the situation of recent economic growth and an accompanying increase in Road accidents and casualties in Poland. The authors draw from a 1991 report, Road Safety in Poland, which established that one of the main reasons for Poland's poor Road Safety performance is the lack of a central body to coordinate Safety policies or a long-term Road Safety program. The Polish Government subsequently established the National Road Safety Board in 1993, a group charged with preparing a national Road Safety program; this program was called GAMBIT'96 and brought together stakeholders from the engineering, enforcement, and education worlds. The authors report that between 1991 and 2000, Poland achieved significant improvements in Road Safety; the annual fatality rate went down from nearly 8,000 to 5,500. However, this number has now leveled off, suggesting that the current Safety measures are no longer able to cope with the growing Road traffic. The authors summarize several important Road transportation documents that have been adopted by the Polish government in the five years since the country joined the European Union. The article concludes with an outline of the new GAMBIT 2005 Road Safety plan, designed to cover 2005-2013. GAMBIT 2005 has 5 main goals: build a basis for a long-term Road Safety policy; implement measures to significantly change Road user behavior; protect pedestrians, bicyclists and children in Road traffic; develop and maintain Road infrastructure; and reduce accident severity, i.e. reduce the percentage of people killed per 100 people injured. The authors voice their concern that because the National Safety Board acts in an advisory capacity only, there is not the support of a professional body dedicated to the development of operational programs, monitoring the progress, evaluating the measures and correcting them, if necessary.
Peter Cairney - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Guide to Road Safety part 1: Road Safety overview
2020Co-Authors: Peter CairneyAbstract:This document is an overview of AustRoads Road Safety publications, including those still in the preparation or planning stage. It commences with a discussion of Road crash costs and Road authorities’ duty of care to provide safe travel. The advantages and disadvantages of different ways of measuring Road Safety are discussed, and these methods are used to illustrate progress in Road Safety in AustRoads’ member jurisdictions in recent years. The Safe System approach as a conceptual framework for Road Safety management is explained, along with the merits of an evidence-based approach to countermeasures. The report concludes with overviews of the Guide to Road Safety and of the AustRoads Guides generally. (a) AustRoads Project SP1051
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Guide to Road Safety: part 4: local government and community Road Safety
2020Co-Authors: Peter CairneyAbstract:The purpose of this document is to give an overview of how local government and community Road Safety programs are structured in Australia and New Zealand, what types of activity they involve, and how they contribute to Road Safety outcomes. It outlines the Road Safety responsibilities of local government, and describes the advantages of working closely with the community in meeting these responsibilities and extending beyond the necessary minimum in Road Safety. The growing importance of capacity building, social capital and social networking in the delivery of government services and their particular relevance to local Road Safety are discussed. The document covers the development of a plan and its advantages, funding a plan and mobilising resources, implementation of the plan, and evaluation and review. Plans for contrasting situations are presented as case studies, along with examples of Road Safety activities. Communication and reporting are also dealt with. The Appendix contains a list of resources which are likely to prove useful for local government and community Road Safety programs. (a)
