Understanding and implementing safe system approach for roads and roadsides

New Zealand formally adopted the Safe System Approach in March 2010 with the Safer Journeys Road Safety Strategy to 2020. Since then we have been attempting to better understand the implications of this and how to turn strategy into action in respect to roads and roadsides activities in particular. This paper outlines our leanings to date through international advice, reviewing of relative research, modelling casualty outcomes of various safety programmes and countermeasures, development of the High Risk Rural Roads Guide (HRRRG) and High Risk Intersection Guide (HRIG), and the use of tools such as KiwiRAP (New Zealand's joint agency Road Assessment Programme), KAT and SafetyNET to inform road safety investments to create a more forgiving state highway road network, increasingly free of death and serious injury.

• Record URL:
  http://acrs.org.au/publications/conference-papers/database/
• Authors:
  • Brodie, C
• Conference:
  • Australasian Road Safety Research Policing Education Conference, 2012, Wellington, New Zealand
• Publication Date: 2012-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 10p
• Monograph Title: Reducing the cost of road safety: Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference 2012, 4-6 October 2012, Wellington, New Zealand

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash rates; Environment; Highway design; Highways; Rural areas; Traffic safety
• Uncontrolled Terms: Road networks; Safe systems (roads)
• Geographic Terms: New Zealand
• ATRI Terms: Crash countermeasure; Crash rate; Road design; Road environment
• ITRD Terms: 1661: Accident prevention; 9011: Design (overall design)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I82: Accidents and Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01481721
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: May 21 2013 10:43AM