Traffic danger.
Why and how to reduce it?
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Why traffic danger? - Global perspective
1.3 million deaths
50 million Injuries
(15M seriously)
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A worsening problem
2004
2030
(actual)
(projected)
Road traffic crashes currently cause more than 1.2 million deaths
a year – but by 2030 will kill an estimated 2.4 million people per year
Source: European status report on road safety, WHO/2009
Leading causes of death WHO EUROPE 2007
European status report
on road safety,
WHO/2009
Situation in Europe
120 000 deaths, 2.4 million injuries
Wide inequalities
≤5
6–9
10 – 14
15 – 19
≥20
Mortality rate for RTI in the Region is 13.4 per 100 000 population.
Inequality in mortality rates: from 3 to 31 per 100 000 population.
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Pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists suffer
over 40% of RTI deaths
Distribution of road traffic deaths by road user category
WHO European Region
Source: European status report on road safety
In Eastern countries the proportion of pedestrian
fatalities is as high as 56% of all road deaths
Ukraine
Greece
Source: European status report on road safety
Russian Federation
Norway
Best progress 2001-2009
Percentage change in road deaths between 2001 and 2009
54%
52% 50% 50%
-36% EU27
Countries lagging behind
Percentage change in road deaths between 2001 and 2009
Romania 14%
Bulgaria - 11%
Poland
- 17%
Greece
- 23%
Norway
- 23%
-36% EU27
source: European Transport Safety Council
Speed is the leading killer
on European roads
Pedestrians have a 90% chance of surviving a crash
at ≤ 30 km/h, but less than a 50% chance of surviving
an impact at ≥ 45 km/h.
Probability of fatal injury for a pedestrian colliding with a vehicle
Source: OECD, ECMT Speed management, 2006.
Reducing speed helps reduce RTIs,
especially for vulnerable road users
Speed
limit
(km/h)
≤ 50
60
> 60
 Only 67% of European countries have urban speed limits of 50
km/h or below.
 Eastern countries have urban speed limits of 60 km/h or
higher.
 80% of countries are not satisfied with speed control
enforcement.
Source: European status report on road safety
The Bill…..
Road crashes cost
countries between
1.5% - 3% of GDP
ANNUALLY
Annual economic loss:
Russia : US$34 billion
Turkey: US$14 billion
Poland: US$10 billion
Ukraine: US$5 billion
Croatia: 1,2-3,0 billion US$
Source: Global Status Report, WHO 2010
Death on Wheels, World Bank 2010
The Bill – the most attractive investment
Investment in traffic safety is an investment with the most attractive
payback
Let’s assume 1,5 bill US$ invested in traffic safety in Croatia?
-37.500 km of road barriers (40$/m)
-100.000.000 sqm of road marking (15$/sqm)
-etc…
Demagogy, I know, but…
The traffic tragedy – why SafeRoad?
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Traffic Safety in five dimensions
Driving culture
Rules and regulations
Safe vehicles
Information and communication
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Traffic installations
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Information and communication
…clear information
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Vision Zero is the image of a future in which
no one will be killed or serious injured
Vision Zero is the image of a future in which
no one will be killed or serious injured
Basis for road safety work in Scandinavia
Introduced in 1995
Challenges traditional thinking
Implementing important EU standards
These who design the roads bear the
Responsibility
Vision Zero is the image of a future in which
no one will be killed or serious injured
Vision Zero accepts that accidents occur, but not
that they result in serious human injury
The result is a reduction in the number of road
deaths in recent years, despite an increase in
traffic
Vision Zero is to accept responsibility
Road infrastructure is an important part of traffic safety
Accept that People
make mistakes!
Accept that Drivers
make mistakes!
But mistakes should not be
punishable by death
Human limitations
Objects along the road must regard
the human body's limitations
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EN 1317 Road restraint systems
EN 12767 Passive safety of support structures for road equipment
EN-1317 have been implemented by
Austria, Belgium,
Czech Republic,
Denmark,
Finland, France,
Germany,
Greece, Iceland,
Ireland, Italy,
Luxembourg,
Netherlands,
Norway, Portugal
Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland and
United Kingdom.
EN 1317
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EN 1317-1 ( Terminology)
EN 1317-2 ( Performance classes barriers)
EN 1317-3 ( Performance classes crach cushions)
EN 1317-4 ( Energy absorbing).
EN 1317-5 ( CE-mark)
EN 1317-6 ( Pedestrian)
EN 1317-7 ( Ends, Slops)
EN 1317-8 ( Motorcycle)
EN 12767
Traffic Safety Equipment; lighting columns, sign post, etc…
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The road side
Designed so that the vehicle:
Can not hit dangerous obstacles
Shall not overturn
Can stop gradually (not abrupt)
Can return to the road in a controlled manner
Security distance
(A)
Security zone (S)
There shall not be any dangerous
obstacles or slopes within the security zone
Dangerous obstacles have to be protected
by guardrail unless they can’t be
1. Removed
2. Redesigned
3. Brake away/deflecting
4. Protected by a crash cushion or barriers
Security distance (A)
km/h
Vehicle/day
50 or lower
60
70 og 80
90 and higher
Less then 1 500
2m
3m
5m
6m
1500 – 5 000
3m
4m
6m
7m
More then 5000
4m
5m
7m
8m
Speed - The Elephant test
Your weight
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Your weight in 50kmph
Your weight in 70 kmph
30 kg
1.750 kg
2.250 kg
50 kg
2.250 kg
3.000 kg
60 kg
2.500 kg
3.500 kg
70 kg
2.750 kg
3.750 kg
75 kg
3.000 kg
4.000 kg
80 kg
3.250 kg
4.250 kg
90 kg
3.500 kg
4.500 kg
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Why the safe infrastructure is so important!
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In Norway a total of 73 % of the fatalities occurred in head-on collisions or
driving off the road
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Head-on collisions alone accounting for 40%.
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In Poland 16% of accidents are a result of pull of the road
We can (we have to);
- act preventively agains by signs, active road marking,
-we can prevent, by road barriers,
-we can minimize the tragic effect by soft infra; road barriers, crash
cushions, end teminales, soft poles, etc…
Examples…
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Vision Zero is the image of a future in which
no one will be killed or serious injured
• In 2007 Sweden dissuaded a new goal to 2020
with 220 person killed in traffic.
• Fast reduction of killed how?
In 1998 Sweden started with separating traffic
from two lanes to 3 lanes with a guard rail in
between the lanes.
The name was 2+1 roads and the idea was to
take already excising roads and separate traffic
from each other. On these roads the reduction
of killed people became 95%.
• In 2015 75% of all roads that have a speed limit
of 80 km/h our higher should have separated
lanes.
Divided lanes – Norway and Sweden
2010 : Norway 620 km /Sweden 3.500km
7000
Progress divided lanes
6000
Kilometres
5000
4000
3000
2000
1000
0
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
Sweden
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2015
Norway
2016
2017
2018
2019
Divided
lanesNumber
– Norway
and Sweden
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of killed
in Sweden
Year
Killed
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
531
580
591
583
560
524
480
440
445
469
407
354
284
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Separated lanes
In Km
10
30
180
450
680
950
1130
1510
1760
2210
2515
2985
3500
Vision Zero facts to day.
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Sweden had about 7 person out of 100 000
killed in traffic 2001.
In 2010 only 3,6 person of 100 000 was
killed in traffic.
In Europe in 2001 there was some countries
that had about 20 of 100 000 person killed in
traffic.
Separate lanes have reduced the number of
one-car accident with 50% and people killed
on a motorcycle with 70% and front to front
with over 95%.
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New idea from the Swedish Road Department
• The Swedish Road Department started with a new book for barriers
with lane separating in 2008.
(The idea was to have contact with the producer of guard rails)
In 2009 they gave out a book about the product that should help
them with bringing down the cost)
• The new product shell be a higher class fore bigger vehicle (H1).
• The new product shell be nicer to motor cycle riders.
• The new product shell be fast to install and easy to repair.
• The new product shell be so strong that smaller accident should not
be needed to repair immediately.
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Area of improvement
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Communication with the drivers; road signs, road marking
Security zones; road barriers, bridge barriers,
Forgiving road side; barriers, crush cushions, end terminales, soft poles
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In for the long run
SafeRoad has been
in the traffic safety business for more than
sixty years.
Our commitment is long term.
Piotr Chojnacki
SVP Market Development
Saferoad AS
pch@saferoad.com
+48 602607609
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