Monitoring Centre for Road Safety and Accident
Prevention in Krakow
13 September 2011
Brussels, Belgium
Lukasz Franek, Krakow University of Technology
Monitoring Centre for Road Safety and Accident Prevention in Krakow
CiViTAS CARAVEL 2005 - 2009
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Monitoring Centre for Road Safety and Accident Prevention in Krakow
Safety activities within the CiViTAS CARAVEL Project
Two measures in Krakow:
8.11 Security action plan for PT in Krakow
11.16 Monitoring Centre for Road Safety and Accident
Prevention in Krakow
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Monitoring Centre for Road Safety and Accident Prevention in Krakow
Situation before the CiViTAS
• Paper documents filled by the Police Officer’s at accident’s place
• Police and Road Administration accident database updated
manually
• Cooperation not formalized
• Annual reports
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Improvement of data collection and database
functionality - Measure 11.16
Leader 
Krakow Municipality (UMK)
System concept 
Krakow University of Technology (PK)
Objectives:
• Formalization of the cooperation between system actors,
• Data register technology improvement,
• Accident risk analysis improvement,
• Increase scope of registered data
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Data sources for Monitoring Centre – (concept)
City Police Department
Public Transport Operator
(MPK)
Insurance companies
Krakow Road and Transport Administration
Monitoring Centre for Road Safety and Accident Prevention
(traffic volume, implemented tools of the safety improvement,
weather conditions)
National Health Found
City Fire Department
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Municipality Database
Department
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Improvement of data collection and database
functionality – (concept)
Electronic data transfer
Police data registered with PDA
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Improvement of data collection and database
functionality
New data registered - Very important for PT
new features proposed:
- under accident localization > to add
“dedicated bus or tram lane”,
- under accident type > to add “knock
down of the pedestrian as a potential
passenger on PT stop”
- under vehicle type > to divide “city bus,
regional bus and minibus”
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Achievements
• A special software (Żbik) to collect
data was prepared by a proffesional
company
•1/4 of Road Police units was
equipped with a netbook containing
the software
• Data was collected electronically
and send to Police Department’s and
Road Administration
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Achievements
• Several workshops with knowledge
exchange between CARAVEL Cities
- similar measure in Genoa
• Best practices – Stuttgart
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Lessons learnt
It’s not possible to change national
institution – Police Department –
„from the bottom”
Reorganization of the transport
management system in the city
Lack of political support
Safety is often not treated seriosuly
Lack of common methodology on
accident data analyzing SAFETYNET
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Dissemination – outcomes
ZEUS concept Test implementation
of the transport
safety management
integration in urban
area, basing on the
traffic management
Urban area integrated
transport
management centre
Traffic management
centre
Fire department
dispatching centre
PT operators
dispatchers
Police
department
dispatcher
Metro
dispatcher*
Critical infrastructure
dispatchers (e.g. tunel)
Coordinator of the
Railway Junction
Control Centre
Air space
coordinator*
Medical
service
dispatcher
Crisis
management
centre
Event
management
centre
Harbour master’s
office coordinator*
Integrated safety
monitoring centre
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*if present on urban area
Monitoring Centre for Road Safety and Accident Prevention in Krakow
Thank you
Lukasz Franek
lfranek@pk.edu.pl
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