Towards Zero: building a safe road system for Victoria

During an average week in Victoria, five people are killed and a further 100 people are hospitalised following road crashes. There are far too many deaths and injuries and the ripple effect of road trauma is enormous. The Transport Accident Commission (TAC) no longer accepts deaths and serious injuries as being inevitable consequences of having a road network. The TAC’s vision is for a future where no one will be killed or seriously injured and where every journey is a safe journey. In order to realise the vision, the TAC must bring to life and implement initiatives which are guided by the principles which underpin the Towards Zero approach. This paper will detail the TAC’s strategy of initiatives being used to help Victoria move Towards Zero.

• Record URL:
  http://acrs.org.au/publications/acrs-conference-papers/acrs-database/
• Authors:
  • TRUONG, J
  • Cockfield, S
• Conference:
  • Australasian Road Safety Conference, 1st, 2015, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
• Publication Date: 2015-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 12p
• Monograph Title: Taking action together: 1st Australasian Road Safety Conference (ARSC2015), 14-16 October, Gold Coast, Queensland

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash rates; Education; Injuries; Policy; Traffic safety; Traffic safety education
• Uncontrolled Terms: Safe systems (road users)
• Geographic Terms: Australia; Victoria
• ATRI Terms: Crash countermeasure; Crash rate; Road user education; Road user performance
• ITRD Terms: 1661: Accident prevention; 1755: Road user
• Subject Areas: Policy; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01591500
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 26 2016 9:30AM