Controlling speeding

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Controlling speeding

• Anthony Pearce
• Honorary Director General
• International Road Federation

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Thanks to

• Global Road Safety Partnership
• Slides based on Good Practice guide sponsored by
• World Health Organisation
• FIA Foundation
• World Bank

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Good Practice Guides
2008
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Facts about speed

• Speed kills!
• Excessive and inappropriate speed most
  important factor contributing to road injury in
  most countries
• One third of collisions resulting in fatalities
  involve excess speed

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Facts about speed

• Vulnerable road users have a high injury and
  fatality risk in a collision

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Higher speeds increase crash risk
Facts about speed

• Driver more likely to lose control
• Fail to anticipate oncoming hazards in good time
• Cause others to misjudge closing speed
• and..

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Facts about speed
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Small changes in speed has high impact on number
of incidents
Facts about speed
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Facts about speed

• Why speeding?
• A shorter journey time
• Likelihood of crash considered low
• Employees under pressure
• For fun
• Limit unknown?

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Facts about speed

• How to deal with speeding?
• A combination of speed limits, engineering,
  enforcement, and public education.... speed
  management!
• based on the safe systems approach

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Safe systems approach

• To achieve a road system that allows for human
  error without leading to death or serious injury!
• Based on Vision zero (Sweden), Sustainable safety
  (Netherlands) and Safe system (Australia).

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Safe systems approach
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Speed limits

• Using safe systems principles
• 30 km/h in built-up areas
• lt 50 km/h at intersections
• lt 70 km/h on two way single carriageway roads

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Speed limits

• SPEED LIMIT setting
• should be based on safety/risk assessment and
  reflect an appropriate balance between safety and
  mobility.

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Tools for managing speed

• Range of speed management tools - important to
  consider how best to adapt these physically,
  socially and politically.
• Hierarchy of roads
• Consistency wherever possible
• Appropriate speed limits are fundamentally
  important for speed management

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Tools for managing speed

• Effective laws and regulations are essential.
• Public education most likely to be effective when
  it informs the community about the facts of
  speeding.
• Range of low to medium-cost engineering tools
  give safety benefits through addressing speed
  related risk.
• New vehicle technologies assist automatic
  compliance with speed.
• Employers should not impose work schedules that
  require drivers to speed.
• Employers should encourage speed compliance by
  employees who drive company vehicles.

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Speed management system

• Speed management is highly contentious
• Political support is essential.
• Political and community leaders must be informed
  and actively encouraged to support the speed
  management programme.
• Stakeholders are a mix of those who hold
  responsibilities for speed management and those
  with a strong interest in speed management.
• A working group should be established to
  coordinate actions.
• Good communication and leadership important.

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Speed management system

• Action plan should set ambitious but achievable
  objectives.
• Must have understanding of crash issues and
  acceptability to government and the community.
• Effective action plan will include a range of
  activities and measures.
• Test the action plan before implementation.
• Communication campaigns inform the public.
• Conducting limited trials or pilot projects is
  good practice.

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Engineering

• Engineering treatments to
• encourage or require lower speeds,
• make the road and its environment more forgiving
  or self-explaining
• separate road users

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Enforcement

• Legal framework
• Signs in accordance with road rules
• Penalty system
• Speed enforcement

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Enforcement

• Observations in UK installation of automatic
  surveillance cameras reduces average speeds by 9
  km/hr.
• If full enforcement throughout the European
  Union, accidents would fall by a third and people
  killed by half.

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Enforcement
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Enforcement

• Controls aim to reduce speed not collect fines.

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Enforcement

• Controls aim to reduce speed not collect fines.

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Enforcement

• Controls aim to reduce speed not collect fines.
• But the system is serious about enforcement.

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Informing the public

• Objectives
• Advising and educating drivers and other road
  users about speed management actions and the
  change in behaviour expected of them.
• Motivating compliance with speed limits and safe
  speeds.
• Encouraging public support for actions to address
  the speeding problem

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Informing the public
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Informing the public
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• Thank you for your attention
• Anthony Pearce
• www.irfnet.org
• www.grsproadsafety.org/