WP5 Safe road users WP-Responsible: ERDF PP6 - AMZS Branka Leskovšek, Robert Štaba 5.6.2013
Automobile Association of Slovenia (AMZS) Association of Automobile and Touring Clubs in Slovenia 81 Clubs 94,000 Members 20 Employees 2
AMZS ROAD SAFETY ACTIVITIES 3
WP5: Safe road users Effective approaches to preventing road crashes road crash injury include measures aiming to improve road user behavior. WP5 focuses on safe road users. 4
WP5: Safe road users Activities WP 2 5.1 interviews, surveys communications 5.2 Training materials road user behavior WP 1 WP 3 WP 4 WP 5 5.3 pilot primary net project mgmt policy and data analysis Safe roads and mobility Safe road users 5.4 pilot secondary net 5.5 investment proposal WP 6 M & E 5
Changing road user behavior... Changing road user behavior requires a combination of diverse measures including Education Awareness campaigns Robust enforcement Infrasture measures Consistant and visible political and social leadership for road safety People must understand (rationally) and feel (emotionally) why they must be safe road users Individual responsibility for using the roads safely is crucial 6
Interviews Interviews will be conducted National network to understand driver knowledge and opinion about key risks such as speed, alcohol, seat-belts and fatigue Pilot networks to understand local knowledge and opinion about key risks and key risk locations To generate ownership and awareness for the ROSEE project Information gathered in both sets of interviews will be used to inform the content of the project so that activities are appropriate to the local situation 7
Internet tool The tool allows: 1. support for developing, creating and designing an online questionnaires 2. the carrying out of online surveys, data collection and sending of invitations 3. online statistical analysis of data and the generation of various reports 8
Training road user behavior Training programmes are being developed by a professional company to up-skill national and community road safety stakeholders on diverse relevant issues Road safety management Vulnerable road users Road safety advocacy Social marketing campaigns Work related road safety Enforcement 9
Training road user behavior Based on principles of adult learning Trainers can adapt to the local situation Interactive Workshops, quizes Certificate of participation 10
Pilots national network, secondary networks Pilots will be conducted on the national and the secondary networks to improve the road safety situation 11
Pilots Primary network Primary network Road user behaviour focus (communications + enforcement) Key object is to strengthen cooperation between police and other stakeholders on delivering a multipronged road user behaviour intervention Creation of leaflet on key issues such as legislation and penalties, guidance to drivers on how to manage fatigue; information on key risks like speed, alcohol, safety-belts The content will be informed by the interviews (5.1) and best practice Dissemination at rest stops and 1 event Supported by website and other media 12
Pilots secondary networks Develop 3 year multi-component strategy for improving the road safety performance of the high-risk secondary segment Strategy will identify responsible agencies, objectives, priorities. Focus on speed management and VRUs Multi-component intervention on speed management with working group Action plan identifying activities, agencies and organizations, budgets, timeline Activities low cost infrastructure, enforcement, social marketing, NGO and citizen group involvement Local flavour Share plans at transnational meeting Use of local budgets also where possible 13
Pilot examples ITALY ROMANIA HUNGARY GREECE NETWORK LOCATION FOCUS WORK ON ALOT secondary East Lombardy pedestrian safety pedestrian crossing UniBS secondary East Lombardy powered two-wheelers two-wheelers vulnerability EUCon primary road user behaviour increasing awarness on RS metropolitan area of bad participants behaviour / bad EUCon secondary all transport users Bucharest infrastructure GRSP primary transit road users GRSP KTI secondary secondary Pest-County District Centre of Budakeszi Pest County how does the bypass road affects RS of the community setting up the road safety expert group extending the methology of road safety audit and inspection public transport needs providing permanent support to the local road safety activities NTUA secondary Peloponnese Region safety in urban areas designing standards 14
Pilot examples SLOVENIA BULGARIA NETWORK LOCATION FOCUS WORK ON AMZS secondary Piran Municipality AVP UL FGG-PTI secondary secondary Osrednjeslovenska region, Podravska region Osrednjeslovenska region, Zahodnoslovenska region protection of vulnerable road users cyclists protection of vulnerable road users lack of communication between police and other key stakeholders low level of awareness by people implementing low cost measures OY primary road user behaviour increasing awarness on RS OY secondary Vidin district road user behaviour human factor 15
Pilot AMZS Speed Management Municipality Piran Key objective: - to strengthen cooperation between the police and other key stakeholders on delivering multi-pronged road user behaviour intervention on primary network Target groups: pedestrians, bicyclists, motorcyclists, elderly, 16
Investment proposal and transnational meeting Focus on sharing the draft strategies and action plans to inspire cross fertilization among the countries Presentation of the transnational report Based on pilot experience, make recommendations for a comprehensive multi-sector model approach for improving coordination, operation and planning of the secondary network by increasing safety performance 17