Road Safety in Japan

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Road Safety in Japan

• Motoi OKUDA
• Director, Planning Department
• Infrastructure Development Institute JAPAN(IDI)

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Trend of road accidents in Japan
Fatalities
Number of Accidents
886,864 (2006)
6,352 (2006) Recent low record
Traffic Safety Policies Law ?
1955
1960
1965
1970
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1995
2000
2005
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Measures for Road Safety

• 1. Promotion of Road safety
• Road safety campaign in May 2006
• 2. Fundamental Traffic Safety Programs
• Fundamental traffic safety programs from 1971

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Fundamental Traffic Safety Programs
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Measures for Road Safety

• 3. Countermeasures for road safety
• Shift traffic to Expressway which is lower fatal
  accident rate
• Focus on main accident black spots
• Road and Junction improvement
• Measures for residential roads
• Usage of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) for
  road safety
• 4. Japans ODA assists developing countries on
  road safety
• Northern Viet Num National Roads Traffic Safety
  Improvement Project was implemented in April
  2007.
• The project for Improvement of Intersections in
  Kathmandu City was implemented in 2003.

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Traffic shift from General roads to Expressways
Fatal accident rate of access controlled highways
is 1/3 of other roads. But interchanges are
located at10-20km distance. For convenient
access to highways, ETC gates are installed in SA
or PA.
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Focus on main accident black spots

• Collection and storage of accident data (ITARDA)
• Line the black spots by number of Fatal accident
  rate and select Main accident black spots
  which are high risk spots.
• Main accident black spots are focused on and
  countermeasures are provided.

Main Accident Black spots (about4,000spots)
Fatal accident rate
spots
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Effects of countermeasures on black spots
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Road and Junction improvement

• Junction improvement

• Road improvement

Full access controlled new road improve traffic
situation and reduce accident number in the whole
city
Full access control restrain accident number
New road (full access control)
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Measures for Residential Roads
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Usage of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) for
road safety
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Suggestion

• Collect road accident data and analyze
  it.Japanese experience such as ITARDA may be
  useful.
• Japans ODA can help developing countries on road
  safety.

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Accident data collection

• In 1992, the Institute for Traffic Accident
  Research and Data Analysis (ITARDA) was
  established.
• ITARDA has created an integrated database using
  the prescribed key data.

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Smart Way 2007

• SMARTWAY 2007, which will make state-of-art ITS
  services a reality, will be deployed from October
  15 to 17, 2007, on the Metropolitan Expressway.
  (This schedule may be changed. Please watch the
  information on website http//www.smartway2007.jp/
  .)
• Based on this trial, the system is to be deployed
  on a full scale throughout Japan from 2008 to
  make the nation's roads the safest in the world.

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Thank You for Your Attention
Contact PersonYoshiro KUNIMASA Researcher,
3rd Research DepartmentTel81-3-3263-7948admin
_at_idi.or.jp