Road Safety Strategies 2015 & 2025 June 7, 2016 Halifax, Nova Scotia Paul Arsenault, Chair of CCMTA Board

Overview CCMTA Road Safety Strategy 2015 and results

CCMTA Active for more than 75 years. Incorporated legal not-for-profit entity. Members are Canada’s fourteen (14) governments: provincial/territorial and federal. Forum for P/T F governments to discuss and collaborate on emerging road safety challenges. Most work falls under three CCMTA program committees: Compliance and Regulatory Affairs, Drivers and Vehicles Road Safety Research and Policies. Additionally, 140 stakeholders are Associates who provide input and have opportunities to be consulted on driver, vehicle, road safety and commercial carrier compliance matters. PAUSE

Collaboration on road safety initiatives Our organization’s vision is to have the safest and most efficient movement of people and goods by road in the world. Our mission, is to provide collaborative leadership in addressing Canadian road safety priorities. Given our structure, we provide forum of collaboration for all members in order to meet our objective and mission

Canada’s Road Safety Strategies Road Safety is a key priority of CCMTA Pillar of the CCMTA strategic plan. Canada was one of the first countries in the world to launch a national road safety strategy in 1996 with Road Safety Vision 2001. Three strategies followed, RSV 2010, RSS 2015 and of course most recently Road Safety Strategy 2025. Road Safety Strategy 2025 builds on lessons learned from Road Safety Strategy 2015.

Road Safety Strategy 2015 Vision: Canada will have the safest roads in the world. Objectives: Raise public awareness and commitment to road safety Improve communication, cooperation and collaboration among stakeholders Enhance legislation and enforcement Improve road safety information in support of research and evaluation RSS 2015, which concluded in December of 2015 ran for a 5 year period Its objectives were to: Raise public awareness and commitment to road safety Improve communication, cooperation and collaboration among stakeholders Enhance legislation and enforcement Improve road safety information in support of research and evaluation

Road Safety Strategy 2015 directional downward trends in fatalities and serious injuries throughout its five- year lifecycle. featured a framework of “proven and promising practices” which focused on key risk groups and contributing factors – in the form of an on-line inventory enabled jurisdictions to create their own P/T/F action plans, based on their needs and priorities. directional downward trends in fatalities and serious injuries throughout its five-year lifecycle. featured a framework of “proven and promising practices” which focused on key risk groups and contributing factors – in the form of an on-line inventory enabled jurisdictions to create their own P/T/F action plans, based on their needs and priorities.

RSS 2015 – roadsafetystrategy.ca This slide depicts a screen shot of the online inventory tool which is available to jurisdictions, and stakeholders. can search by type (i.e., vehicle, road, road user), risk group, contributing factor and intervention to identify the proven or promising solution to address their specific challenge. If you are interested in accessing the tool, simply go to roadsafetystrategy.ca. and click on Road Safety Measures

Road Safety Strategy 2015 Risk Groups: Young drivers under 25 VRU (i.e. pedestrians, motorcyclists and cyclists) Medically-at-risk-drivers Motor carriers High-risk drivers General population Road Safety Strategy 2015 targeted all road users above.

Improvement in level of road safety over three National Road Safety Plans Traffic Fatalities 1996-2014 1996 fatality count (3,129) RSV 2001 launched: 1996 RSV 2010 launched: 2002 RSV 2010 target (2,064) 2014 (1,834) RSS 2015 launched: 2011 We have seen fatalities decline by 41% between the beginning of the first Road Safety Vision – Vision 2001 which launched in 1996 and 2014, close to the end of RSS 2015’s timeline That is good news.

Improvement in level of road safety over three National Road Safety Plans Serious Injuries 1996-2014 1996 Seriously Injured toll (18,734) RSV 2001 launched: 1996 RSV 2010 launched: 2002 RSS 2015 launched: 2011 RSV 2010 target (11,607) 2014 (9,647) Similar trend line can be seen when looking at serious injuries which is defined as where victims are admitted to hospital for treatment. Serious injuries have declined by 49% over the 1996-2014 period, from Road Safety Vision 2001, well into the period of Road Safety Strategy 2015.

Road Safety Strategy 2015 - National Progress Fatalities – Avg. 2011-2013 against baseline 2006-2010 When looking at specific fatality indicators there have been reductions in almost all of the fatality indicators in 2011-2013 compared to the 2006-2010 baseline period. One indicator that has shown an increase is drugged driving.

Road Safety Strategy 2015 - National Progress Serious injuries – Avg. 2011-2013 against baseline 2006-2010 There have also been reductions in all of the serious injury indicators in 2011-2013 compared to the 2006-2010 baseline period. Note that currently, there is no national data concerning drug use by seriously injured drivers.

Summary of Progress - RSS 2015 Over the first four years of RSS 2015, both fatalities and serious injuries were 21% lower compared to the 2006-2010 baseline. Encouraging news. But we must remain vigilant. Based on our ranking compared to other countries, Canada is working to improve our progress, and RSS 2025, launched earlier this year, will help us.

Road Safety Strategy 2025 Towards Zero: The safest roads in the world In January the CoMT announced the next Road Safety Strategy RSS 2025 – towards Zero – the safest roads in the world roadsafetystrategy.ca

Road Safety Strategy 2025 What’s new: Safe System Approach Vision statement: “Towards Zero - The safest roads in the world Two new objectives: Improving engineering of vehicles & road infrastructure Leveraging technology & innovation 10 Year Program: 2016-2025

Road Safety Strategy 2025 Safe System Approach SSA is how many countries that are leading in road safety are achieving their vision of eliminating deaths and serious injuries. It accommodates human error and seeks to align safety decisions, rather than compete with values such as economic, human, environmental and health goals. It focuses on safer vehicles, safer road infrastructure, and safer road users. It is recognized that Canadian jurisdictions will implement the SSA in a manner that is appropriate to their environment

Road Safety Strategy 2025 Revised Risk Groups Young/novice drivers Vulnerable road users (pedestrians, motorcyclists, cyclists) Medically at risk drivers Commercial drivers High risk drivers General population Most of the target risk groups of RSS 2025 remain the same as RSS 2015 The risk groups in blue have been added or modified Novice drivers were added since some of them are not young The focus on motor carrier safety is now Commercial Drivers

Road Safety Strategy 2025 Expanded contribution factors: Distracted driving Alcohol impaired driving Drug impaired driving Fatigue impaired driving Speed and aggressive driving Unrestrained occupants Environmental factors Road infrastructure Vehicle factors The contributing factors are similar except : impaired driving has been separated into alcohol and drug impaired driving since they are different road safety issues and require different approaches, road infrastructure has been separated from environmental factors such as weather conditions, and vehicle factors have been added to fully adopt the Safety System Approach

Road Safety Strategy 2025 Road Safety Measures Information/data/research Policy/legislation/regulation Enforcement Communication/awareness Education/training Technology Partnerships RSS 2025 continues with these six categories of RSS 2015 interventions. The CCMTA RSS 2025 online inventory of proven and promising road safety will be updated and maintained, based on current research and evaluation.

Road Safety Strategy 2025 Some recently identified activities that might help members make evidence-based decisions / inform legislation and perhaps develop specific jurisdictional strategies - pertain to the issue of cannabis and driving and driving while distracted lessons learned re the legalization of cannabis will help inform how we deal with the issue in Canada. growing concern that driver distraction has surpassed alcohol impaired driving as a contributing factor in crashes. understand the evolving use of technology and the effectiveness of jurisdictional interventions to date in mitigating distracted driving.

Road Safety Strategy 2025 Evaluation and reporting Progress will be measured in the same fashion as we measured RSS 2015: rate-based vs actual numbers. Specifically: Fatalities and serious injuries per billion kilometres travelled, and Fatalities and serious injuries per one hundred thousand population. Periodic updates will be made to the Council of Deputy Ministers Responsible for Transportation and Highway Safety and a mid-term review of the strategy after the fifth year (i.e., 2020).

Road Safety Strategy 2025 That takes us to the end of this morning’s presentation. I’m happy to answer any questions.