By the European Transport Safety Council in partnership with 3M Europe and Toyota

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By the European Transport Safety Council in
partnership with 3M Europe and Toyota

• The Roads to Respect
• A European programme for Better Road Safety
  Engineering

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European Transport Safety Council

• A science - based approach to road safety policy

• 37 organisations from across Europe under one
  unique umbrella promoting science-based transport
  safety measures at EU level
• More than 200 experts contributing to ETSCs
  Projects, Reviews, Policy Papers, Newsletters,
  Positions, Lectures, Press Releases, Year Books,
  etc.
• The European Commission, member organisations,
  member states and corporate sponsors are funding
  our work

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ETSC priority-based safety work

ETSC Priority-based safety work
Ranking EU countries performances - Road Safety
PIN
Monitoring EU transport safety policy
Preventing Drink Driving and Speeding
Protecting Vulnerable Road Users - VOICE
Campaigning for the treatment of high risk
infrastructure R2R
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Road Safety in Europe

• 39,200 deaths in the EU in 2006
• Around 3 million injuries
• Socio-economic cost 200 billion
• Non-quantifiable pain and suffering

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The EU target and Strategy
White Paper (2001) "European transport policy for
2010  time to decide" Cutting road deaths by
50 by 2010
Insufficient progress towards the target
3rd Road Safety Action Programme (2003) Sharing
responsibility
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Insufficient progress...

• EU
• Roughly 39,200 people are still dying every year
  on Europe's roads. 
• Although this represents an 24 drop in six
  years, the EU is still some way off from its 50
  target, set in 2001.
• Romania
• In 2006, 2573 people died in Romanian roads 4.8
  more than in 2001.
• Romania is one of the five countries in the EU-27
  that did not reduce the number of fatalities
  between 2001 and 2006.

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Romania performance compared to other European
countries
Number of deaths per million inhabitants
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Romania performance compared to other European
countries
Reduction of road fatalities 2001/2006
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Countermeasures

• Solutions in 3 areas
• In 2003 the EU adopted its third road safety
  action plan , designed to encourage road users to
• improve their behaviour,
• make vehicles safer and
• improve road infrastructure.

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Road users behaviour and Vehicle Safety

• Education Major factors in accidents including
  driving under the influence of alcohol or other
  drugs inattentive driving poor driving skills,
  etc.
• Enforcement Enforcement of traffic rules means
  making sure that they are being applied.
• Vehicle Safety Special safety features have been
  built into cars for years, some for the safety of
  car's occupants only, some for the safety of
  others.

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Infrastructure safety

• Besides the vehicle and the driver,
  infrastructure is the third pillar of any
  comprehensive road safety work.
• Road infrastructure and design are a contributing
  factor in one out of three fatal accidents.
• Major advancements made in the past few years
  regarding users behaviour and safer cares are
  unmatched by advancements in infrastructure
  standards.

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Infrastructure safety Directive Proposal
COM (2006) 569

• In order to increase safety of road
  infrastructures, the Commission proposed a
  comprehensive system of road infrastructure
  safety management through a directive focussing
  on the following four procedures
• Road safety impact assessments
• Road safety audits
• Network safety management
• Safety inspections

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Treatment of high risk sites

• It is important for Member States to develop and
  implement in due course high and verified
  standards of road safety management in line with
  the EU directive
• but this must in no way delay the early
  identification and treatment of the worst high
  risk sites with means that are available.
• Identifying high risk sites Probably most
  important part of the work! Requires careful
  observation and investigation and should be
  science based (gathering accident records/data)

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What is a high risk site?

• Chernobyl Meltdown
• 1986
• But
  also.

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What is a high risk site?

• this is a high risk site too!!!!
• Why?
• Dangerous roadside objects (trees) but no crash
  barriers
• Narrow single carriage way with opposite flows of
  traffic but no separate lane marking
• Poor visibility
• No preventive sign

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The Roads to Respect Programme (R2R)

• The Roads to Respect a programme for the
  treatment of High Risk Sites in Bulgaria,
  Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Romania, Slovenia and
  Serbia

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Roads to Respect (R2R)

• The Roads to Respect (R2R) programme aims at
  treating high risk sites where systematic
  accidents occur
• High risk site treatment should be based on
  engineering and politics!
• Road safety policy should always be based on
  science

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Roads to respect (R2R)

• Death and injury prevention is not necessarily
  expensive or complex, the R2R programme wishes to
  promote simple, low cost engineering measures,
  that can significantly and quickly reduce routine
  accidents.
• Students to identify a high risk site and
  campaign/lobby local authorities for its
  treatment
• The programme will run in seven countries
  (Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Romania,
  Serbia and Slovenia)

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Low Cost Measures

• Low-cost road and traffic engineering measures
  comprise physical measures that
• Have low capital cost,
• Can be implemented quickly, and
• Offer high ratios of benefit to cost.

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Examples of high risk sites with simple treatment
Before only one signal
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Examples of high risk sites with simple treatment
...signal obscured
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Examples of high risk sites with simple treatment
After overhead signal installed!
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Examples of high risk sites with simple treatment
Before deteriorated Give Way line markings
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Examples of high risk sites with simple treatment
After reinstatement of give way markings
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Examples of high risk sites with simple treatment
Before vehicle/pedestrian conflict
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Examples of high risk sites with simple treatment
After pedestrian fencing installed
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Examples of high risk sites with simple treatment
Before - Notre Dame (Paris) vehicle/pedestrian
conflict
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Examples of high risk sites with simple treatment
pedestrians distracted
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Examples of high risk sites with simple treatment
After vehicle access restricted
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Examples of high risk sites with simple treatment
Before dangerous merge
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Examples of high risk sites with simple treatment
After lane separators installed
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Also

• Installing a roundabout, if well-designed is
  always a good solution at dangerous / busy
  intersections

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Roads to Respect 2007

• A pilot R2R project was run in 2007 in Italy,
  Spain, and Poland with positive results
• 19 engineering students attended the R2R Camp in
  Brussels and campaigned for the treatment of High
  Risk Sites in their own cities
• Some participants managed to reach their goal
  while others used R2R to meet public authorities
  and enterprises. Even some participants had great
  marks in faculty papers thanks to R2R!!!

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Exemples of 2007 projects
The Use of ICT for Improving Road Safety
Conditions, Biaggio Cuffio (Italy)
Goal Implementing an automatic system capable of
detecting traffic conditions around one of the
black spots existing in the Campania Region
Transportation System and to inform, by means of
a VMS (Variable Message Sign), the oncoming
vehicles. This project was accepted by the
Municipality of Napoli!!!
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Exemples of 2007 projects
Calculate traffic lights transition phases in
dangerous junction, Mario Romero (Spain)
Goal programming the traffic lights controller
in order to increase the time between the end of
pedestrian green light and the beginning of the
vehicles green light. This project reached its
goal and is the basis of a research project in
the University of Valencia!!!
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Exemples of 2007 projects
Increase safety conditions in a cyclist path,
Malgorzata Jedynak (Poland)
Goal Build and isolated bidirectional cyclist
path and improve other safety conditions. The
cyclist path is currently being built and
Malgorzata is helping the designer!!!
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R2R partcipants 2007
Learning the role that lobbying play was very
interesting and useful.
Every lecture gave me something different. Group
exercises really helped.
BUT
You should tell the students that its quite
necessary to have a risk site to treat with info
already collected before the camp
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R2R partcipants 2007
I just want to say thanks because I understand
that road safety is my future job, and I hope to
work in it all my life.
The visits to the EU Parliament and the field
trip were simply great!
I discovered a group of friends and specially
many professional people.
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How to participate in R2R?

• Apply online www.etsc.be/R2R.php
• Before 30/06/2008
• Ideally initial idea of a high risk site to
  treat

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Application form
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Roads to Respect Camp

• In order to learn about the identification of
  high risk sites and the politics behind their
  treatment, (how to carry effective campaigning
  and lobbying), 20 students will be invited to
  Brussels for the R2R training camp on September
  2008.
• !!!free of charge!!! (travel, accommodation and
  daily allowance covered)
• Minimum understanding of English necessary

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Roads to Respect Campaign

• Students return to their home country and try to
  apply their newly acquired skills to convince
  their local politicians or local administration
  to fix the accident black spot that they have
  identified
• ETSC gives support to the students during the
  whole campaign

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Roads to Respect Award Ceremony

• A ceremony is organized in Brussels to award the
  students most involved in the R2R project
• Prizes are decided by a group of independent
  experts on road safety according to objective
  indicators

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Roads to Respect Contact

• For further information contact
• daniel.ugarte_at_etsc.be
• gabriel.simcic_at_etsc.be

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Roads to Respect 2008

• Apply online
• www.etsc.be/R2R.php

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Thanks...

• ETSC wants to thank the kind cooperation from
  Iustina Diaconu and GRSP- Romania in the
  organization of Roads to Respect 2008