IPWEA WA / Main Roads WA Road Safety Panel
The State Government Road Safety Strategy has adopted a Safe System approach, which involves a holistic view of the road transport system and the interactions among roads and roadsides, travel speeds, vehicles and road users. It is an inclusive approach that caters for all groups using the road system, including drivers, motorcyclists, passengers, pedestrians, cyclists, and commercial and heavy vehicle drivers. Safe System recognises that people will always make mistakes and may have road crashes—but the transport system should be forgiving and those crashes should not result in death or serious injury.
Key inputs to the Safe System are:
- using data, research and evaluation to understand crashes and risks
- developing road rules and enforcement strategies to encourage compliance and manage non-compliance with the road rules
- managing access to the road through licensing drivers and riders and registering vehicles
- providing education and information
- being open to and seeking innovation
- developing standards for safe vehicles, roads and equipment
- good management and coordination
Safe System is also the focus of the Road Safety Auditing process, with the focus on considering safe speeds and by providing forgiving roads and roadsides by considering the known limits to crash forces the human body can tolerate. This is achieved by focusing the Road Safety Audit on particular crash types that are known to result in higher severity outcomes at relatively lower speed environments to reduce the risk of fatal and serious injury crashes, such as:
- head-on (>70 km/h)
- right angle (>50 km/h)
- run off road impact object (>40 km/h), and\
- crashes involving vulnerable road users (>30 km/h)
This Safe System workshop provides road designers and transport practitioners a review of how we should all be adopting a Safe System approach when planning and designing our road network. If we design our roads to mitigate against known crash types that result in high severity crashes, WA’s road toll and those seriously injured as a result of road trauma can be dramatically reduced.
The Presenters
* Teresa Williams, Director, Strategy, Policy & Legislation, Road Safety Commission
* Brendon Wiseman, Main Roads WA
* David Landmark, Manager Road & Traffic Engineering, Main Roads WA
* Donald Veal, Director, Donald Veal Consultants
* Martyn Glover, Director Infrastructure Services, City of Gosnells
* Tim Judd, Director, GTA Consultants (Facilitator)
Who Should Attend?
Designers, Road Safety Practitioners, Road Designers, Senior Landscape Designers, anyone who works with Street Art/Art Installations will all benefit from attending this workshop.
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