RSPI Questionnaire

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Work Package 3 Safety Performance
Indicators Martijn A. Vis Institute for Road
Safety research SWOV Leidschendam, The
Netherlands SafetyNet conference, May 11, 2006
Project co-financed by the European Commission,
Directorate-General Transport Energy
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Overview Presentation

• SPI overview
• SPI areas
• Next steps
• Observatory
• Conference

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Safetynet
Macroscopic data
In-depth data
WP 2 RED Risk-Exposure Data 29 states
WP 1 CARE Accident Database 29 states
WP 3 SPI Safety Performance Indicators
WP 4 Independent Accident Investigation
Recommendations
WP 5 In-depth Accident and Injury Causation
databank
Data application
WP 6 EU Road Safety Information system
WP 7 Data analysis and synthesis
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Background of SPIs (1)

• Set-up and content of work package follow
  directly from ETSC recommendations
• European Transport Safety Council (2001).
  Transport Safety Performance Indicators.
  Brussels, ETSC
• Recommendations concerned
• SPI areas
• Collection and harmonisation of data
• Guidance (assistance) of Member States

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Background of SPIs (2)

• SPIs are
• comprehensible tools
• to provide a better understanding of current
  safety conditions
• and to monitor policy interventions

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Background of SPIs (3)

• Independence
• from countermeasures
• Measuring operational conditions

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Background of SPIs (4)

• Implementation
• Harmonisation of data
• Implementation of best practices
• Application
• Comparing
• countries
• regions
• Monitoring developments
• Impact of measures

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SPI areas

• Speed
• Protective systems
• Daytime running lights
• Alcohol drug use
• Vehicles (passive safety)
• Roads
• Trauma management

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SPI area Speed

• Preferred SPI
• Average speed
• standard deviation
• Other good indicators
• of offenders
• 10 km/h over the limit
• Speed V85
• If possible for different
• road categories
• vehicle types

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SPI area Speed


The Netherlands
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SPI area Protective systems

• Preferred SPI
• The percentage of road users using protective
  systems during daytime
• Belts and Child restraint systems in vehicles
• Helmets for two-wheelers
• On all roads (motorways/ rural/ urban roads)

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SPI area Protective systems


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SPI area Daytime running lights

• Preferred SPI
• vehicles using daytime running lights
• If possible for different
• road categories
• vehicle types

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SPI area Daytime running lights


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SPI area Alcohol drug use

• Preferred SPI
• of on-the-spot fatalities resulting from
  accidents involving at least one impaired active
  road user
• If possible for different
• road users
• drugs

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SPI area Alcohol drug use

• No results as yet
• 5 countries provided data
• Data insufficient to calculate indicator
• Indicator may be revised

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SPI area Vehicles (passive safety)

• Preferred SPIs
• Crashworthiness of Passenger cars based on
  vehicle age and Euro NCAP score
• Fleet composition

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SPI area Vehicles (passive safety)


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SPI area Roads

• Preferred SPIs
• Road Network
• Share of road types
• Share of intersection types
• Intersection density
• Road design
• Presence of road side barrier or wide
  obstacle-free zone
• Presence of median barrier or wide median
• Share of intersection types
• Presence of facilities for vulnerable road users

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SPI area Roads


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SPI area Trauma management

• Preferred SPIs (minimum set)

• Emergency Medical Services Staff and equipment
  in service
• Rates of EMS stations / population / rural road
  length
• physicians and paramedics of the total EMS
  staff, and rate of EMS staff per population
• BLSU, MICU and helicopters/ planes of the total
  EMS units, and rates of EMS transportation units
  per population and per road length
• EMS Time values of initial treatment
• The demand for a response time and percentage of
  EMS responses meeting the demand
• Average response time of EMS
• Further medical treatment facilities in service
• beds in certified trauma centres and trauma
  departments of hospitals, and rate of total
  trauma beds per population

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SPI area Trauma management


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Main issues

• Data availability
• Data quality
• SPI theory

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Next steps

• Improving SPI theory
• Reporting on SPI results
• Developing SPI best practice manual
• data collection
• implementation and application
• Assistance