Road Sector Development Directorate Under ADB Assisted Sindh Road Sector Development Programme “National Road Safety Conference” Marriott Hotel, Karachi 24 th April, 2007

► Management and Financial guidance ► Active leadership role in the new proposed Sindh Road Agency ► RSDD has a clear mission for introduction of “best practice” at all levels of the road management in Sindh. ► Community participation, Road Safety, Asset Management, a channel to convey needs of the communities to WSD ► Poverty Reduction, thru creation of increased job opportunities, particularly for the rural women ► Provide guidance on Environmental Mgt & Resettlement issues ROLE OF RSDD

► A service oriented org in place of purely road constructing agency ► Creation of a Provincial ‘Road Fund’ ► Creation of a ‘Road Agency’ to own and protect road as an asset ► Greater private-sector/ community-participation ► Creation & Mgt of Sub RMUs in each district ► Increased Road Safety ► Proper Accident Data Management ► Coordinated activity b/w Dist Govs and WSD ► Improved Governance and Environmental Mgt SECTOR REFORMS COMPONENT Expected Outcomes

Facts about Road Safety: ► Asia Pacific accounts for almost half of global road accident deaths. ► In Pakistan about 5000 people are killed in road accidents annually, 20% of all such deaths are under 15years of age. ► By 2020 Road Accidents will be 3rd leading cause of death worldwide, in 1990 it was 9th. ► Road accidents cost DMCs 1-3% of GDP annually. ► Road Accidents inhibit socio-economic dev. They are associated with:  Millions of premature deaths & injuries  Billions of dollars in medical costs  Strain in welfare service  Loss of productivity  Low economic growth  Poverty Road Safety

Economic Aspect: ► Value of all road assets in Pakistan Rs bn. In Sindh Province Rs. 500 bn. ► Over Rs. 100 bn. Spent on roads in last 15 years. ► 10% of GDP comes from transport in Pakistan. ► Traffic growth between 5-10 % per annum. Road Safety

ROAD SAFETY PLAN

► Road Safety Plan is one of the key components of the Sector Reform Component of the Sindh Road Sector Development Programme. The traffic safety record being poor in Sindh, the Governor of Sindh had declared the year 2005 as “Traffic Safety Year”. This Plan, although independent, takes stock of the Governor’s initiative, works in close liaison and creates joint activities with the Traffic Safety Year organization, as well. Road Safety Plan

► The prime objective of the Road Safety Plan is to create a capable and a functioning road safety organization within the Road Sector Development Directorate of the WSD, Sindh. Other aims are to create awareness amongst stakeholders and road users in improving road safety through campaigns and educational programs as well as to strengthen the capacity and technical capability to record accurate accident data in Sindh and to mobilize both public and private partners to constitute sustainable road safety working bodies at all levels of the society. Road Safety Plan

► The role of this plan, as part of the ADB loan, is to provide seed money for the initiation of road safety works. It is assumed that the Sindh Road Fund or other mechanisms of sustainable financing will be in place after the Plan period and will be able to cater for future financial needs. ► This Plan was prepared in October 2005 and is in accordance with the ADB Road Safety Guidelines for the Asian and Pacific Region and the Operational Tool Kit on Road Safety Audit for Road Projects. ► The Components of the Plan include following activities with following cost estimates: Road Safety Plan

► Children Road Safety Education Plan ► Sindh Road Agency ► Road Safety Awareness Campaign ► Road Management Units ► Road Safety Audit ► Road Accident Data System Plan ► Seminars/Workshops Components of the Road Safety Plan

PLAN FOR CHILDREN ROAD SAFETY EDUCATION

WHY TRAINING TRAFFIC SAFETY FOR CHILDREN ? ► A Child’s height causes visibility problems for the child and drivers ► Children have difficulty identifying speed & distance ► Children have difficulty dealing with multiple distractions ► Although young children can be trained to cross streets, they are easily distracted and may respond impulsively ► Children walking alone tend to behave more responsibly than the children in groups ► Children often have difficulties in determining right from left and in determining the importance and direction of sound ► Children often believe that the safest way to cross a street is to run ► In Pakistan about 5000 people are killed in road accidents annually, 20% of all such deaths are under 15years of age.

OBJECTIVES OF THE PLAN  Target Audience: 4 Districts – 100 Schools – 10,000 children (half Govt and half SEF Community Schools)  Increase effectiveness / skills of Teachers to impart road safety training by developing curriculum  Improve knowledge amongst SMB’s/ Local Govt.  Raising awareness of Parents / Community involving them in classroom educational activities  Methodology to use teaching methods which follow the principles of child development  Proposal for Formal inclusion of Road Safety in the curriculum  Road Safety Education to start from Pre-School then continue to Elementary Levels  Designing Learning Materials based on social / cultural values  Follow up and Monitoring to gauge impact of Plan  Create ownership / sustainability of program by involving SMBs / Community Members.

ROAD SAFETY EDUCATION (PILOT PLAN) ► Primary Target:School Going Children Secondary Targets:Adults (Teachers, Parents of Children, Drivers, Etc) ► 4 Districts Selected for Pilot Plan: (SEF already has ongoing educational plans in these Districts) Cluster # of non formal / CBS # of formal Schools Total Schools / Teachers Expected # of direct beneficiaries of Govt Schools # of direct beneficiaries of CBS # of indirect Beneficiaries Sehwan / Jamshoro Dadu / Mehar Larkana Khairpur

THE PLAN ► The Plan intends to cover an entire academic year ( ) ► Baseline Survey at the Start to determine:  Road User Awareness Levels  Approximate Number of Fatal Road Accidents ► Educational Campaign  Academic  Visual Aids  Interactive Discussions  Activities  Seminars (involving Parents / Community Members/ Officials) ► Benefit Monitoring and Evaluation:  Mid-Term Performance Review  End of Project Evaluation

PROGRESS TO-DATE ► Local Government Awareness Raising Workshops: 4 district level workshops held for 80 Local Government Representatives from education, highway police, health & social welfare departments; district based civil society organizations, media and school management bodies. ► Capacity Building of Schools Heads & Teachers: 4 trainings organized for 100 school teachers on Integrating Road Safety Education in School Curriculum ► Road Safety lessons in 100 schools: Ongoing lessons being conducted by RSEP trained teachers for 10,000 children across 100 schools of Sindh. ► Capacity Building for School Management Bodies: 4 trainings organized for 200 members of school management bodies. ► Awareness-raising Sessions: Ongoing orientation sessions at the grassroots level for students, teachers, and parents to create road safety awareness. ► Road Safety Melas (fun-fairs): Attended by more than 7,000 people the melas were a huge success in propagating road safety messages to the wider community.

PROGRESS (cont) ► Road Safety Provincial Launch Seminar: RSEP Provincial Launch in Karachi attended by 300 participants including teachers and school heads from government and community schools, individuals from various NGOs based in Karachi, representatives from the corporate sector, officials from the National Highway Authority, and various dignitaries. ► Road Safety Resource Pack: Distributed across 100 schools the Resource Pack comprises: ► a. 7 stories on Road Safety ► b. 1 Teachers’ guide on implementing road safety curriculum ► c. Road Safety Activity Booklet; posters; stationary; safety brigade gear for children ► d. First Aid Manual & Kit ► e. Road Safety Board Game ► Road Safety Newsletter: Safety-wise: Produced 2 issues of this programmatic resource with a circulation reaching an audience of 2300 comprising educationists, government departments, health sector, corporate organizations, schools (urban & rural Sindh), media agencies as well as individuals across the country. ► Road Safety Website: An educational cum programmatic web-based resource on road safety. ► Partnerships with corporate organizations: Several partnerships are brewing with corporate organizations who have shown interest in jointly extending the successes of the pilot road safety program. The ‘National Road Safety Conference’ is also a result of such collaboration.

ROAD SAFETY RESOURCES ► Learning resources for children: Story books on following road safety themes  Importance of Road Safety  Being a Cyclist  Being a Passenger  Being a Pedestrian  Being a Road Safety Officer  Playing on the Road  Importance of First Aid ► Road Safety Activity Booklet ► Road Safety Board Game ► Road Safety Posters ► Online road safety educational resource:

ROAD SAFETY RESOURCES ► Teaching aids for School Teachers: 1. Manual on Integrating Road Safety Education in School Curriculum 2. Manual on First Aid & Crises Management 3. Teachers’ Guide for Road Safety Education ► Supplementary reading materials: 1. Information leaflets on:  Road Safety Instructions for Road Users  Roles and Responsibilities of Road Users 2. Traffic Taleem Baraye Atfal (Traffic Education for Children) – an Urdu resource book on road safety education. 3. Highway Code Book (Urdu language)

SINDH ROAD AGENCY

THE FACTS ► Over 25,000 kms of Provincial & District Roads ► 3 Major Tiers of Ownership:  Federal – National Highways  Provincial – Provincial Highways  District – District Roads ► Provincial Road Assets Worth Rs Billion: ► Current Annual Maintenance Rs million ► Other Minor Tiers of Ownership: (Cantonments, Societies, Etc.)

THE PROBLEMS ► Road Assets worth over Rs Billion without any sustained ownership:  WSD primarily a Road Construction agency  No Unified Approach Towards Prioritization for Construction or Maintenance of Roads  Absence of Sustained Responsibility On the Part of Owners  Lack of clearly defined strategy for Road Sector  Inadequate maintenance leading to increasing damage to the Road Assets estimated at Rs Billion  Lack of Coordination Between Different Tiers of Owners  Practically No Implementation of Traffic Laws (except on Federal Roads by MP)  No Effective Mechanism to Monitor and Prevent: ► Damage to Roads or; ► Encroachments on ROW

SRA WILL PROVIDE ? ► Ownership of Roads as an Asset:  Sustained ownership after construction  Create and Maintain Database for proper decision making  Single responsible Authority ► Planning For Maintenance:  Assist in distribution of funds between Construction and Maintenance Funds  Prioritization of Roads for Maintenance  Unified Policy for Construction / Maintenance, including Road Design, Standardized Road Safety Signs, Safety Campaigns, etc. ► Protection of Road Assets:  After construction provide sustained ownership by preventing: ► Misuse (overloaded tractors, trucks, etc.) ► Damage (dragging agri implements, encroachments, etc.) ► Fatal accidents due to lack of implementation of Traffic Laws (over speeding, rash driving, etc.)

PROPOSED FUNCTIONS OF SRA ► Policy Formulation for Road Asset Management ► Enforcement and Protection: ► Emergency Response:

POLICY FORMULATION FOR ROAD ASSET MANAGEMENT ► Importance of maintaining Road Assets:  Planning & Development: ► Justified / Logical utilization of maintenance funds to reduce damage to existing infra-structure leading to higher maintenance costs:  Road Condition Surveys  Traffic Counts ► Create, maintain, update and utilize database for decision making prioritizing where construction of new roads would yield maximum benefit to Country’s growth;  Road Inventory  Population Inventory (area wise alongwith demographic data)  Human Resource Inventory / Management ► Human Resource Development Management  Career Management  Trainings / Resource Centers

ENFORCEMENT AND PROTECTION: ► Establishment of Sindh Motorway Police (SMA): (similar to National Motorway Police including benefits)  Traffic Laws: ► Over Speeding ► Rash Driving ► Over Loading (Axle Load Control Plan) ► Dragging of Agri Implements ► Encroachments-prevention and removal ► Others  Security ► Provide sense of security for road users by simple presence ► Timely communication of any major incident / accident on highway for rapid emergency response ► Assistance for road users in case of any emergency such as vehicle breakdown or medical condition of road users

FINANCING ► Sindh Road Fund ► Total Cost of proposal Rs. 228 million ► One time investment Rs million ► Annual recurring exp Rs million

ROAD MANAGEMENT UNITS (RMU)

FUNCTIONS OF ROAD MANAGEMENT UNITS 1. Creation of Provincial wide Road Database:  Creation of RMU is for better ‘Maintenance Management of Roads’. Central RMU in Karachi was established in 1998, Sub- RMU’s have now been established in all districts.  RMU (Sindh) has a database of about 21,500 Kms of road network of Sindh.  The Road List depicts the following: ► Road Number, Road Name, Road Class, Road Length, District  The road database is being continuously updated by RMU depending upon its allocated resources.  Each road has been assigned a unique number

FUNCTIONS OF ROAD MANAGEMENT UNITS 2.Road Maps:  RMU also prepares the District Road Maps and roads are marked on them as per their functional classification, in proper colour coding alongwith their numbers.  Presently, RMU is digitizing these road maps which will then be sent to the field offices.  Future program includes marking of traffic and accident data on these maps.

FUNCTIONS OF ROAD MANAGEMENT UNITS 3. Traffic Counting / Surveys :  Traffic Counting Surveys were last carried out during period by the field staff of WSD.  Under the RSDP, fresh traffic counting surveys (ADT: 24-hour counts) are being carried out.  The ‘Pilot Survey’ was carried out on S th December,  Survey of ‘H’ Type roads along with link roads (S-Type) is continuously carried out during the year by RMU in collaboration with the field staff.  Procurement of Automatic traffic counting equipments are under process which will be help for speed up the counting process and also to help for evaluation of seasonal variations.

FUNCTIONS OF ROAD MANAGEMENT UNITS 4.Collection of Accident Data:  Future programme of RMU is to collect / obtain accident data reports for identification of Black Spots.  Accident forms have been devised by consulting the NHA’s form and will be circulated to all sub-RMU’s, recently created in all districts of Sindh province.  These data will be then marked on the digitized Road maps for monitoring and planning for improvement of Black Spots.  Recommendation on design features for improvements of Road Section includes safe geometry, safe cross- sections, safe road surroundings, proper warning system, if risky zones are unavoidable.

ROAD SAFETY AUDIT

Road Safety Audit ► This reports covers the Audit of more than 30 project roads of Sindh on the principles of “Road Safety Audit”. ► The report contains the guidelines on how to use road signs, markings and pedestrian facilities. ► The reports contains examples on how to present design defects can be mitigates. ► The examples given the above report for use as a model when the designs will be complements with additional signs and other road safety measures. ► Check list has also been added in the above report for future road list audit.

ROAD ACCIDENT DATA SYSTEM PLAN

CONCEPT & APPROACH ► ADSP covers part of SRSDP – TOR of Sector Reforms Component, “Road Safety and Traffic Engineer”. ► ADSP is prepared to define the future Accident Data System for WSD in Sindh Data System for WSD in Sindh

OBJECTIVES ► Accident Data can be used as the main source to study ;  How design features have impact on road accidents.  How roads should be better designed to minimize and even prevent accidents for both, motorized and non-motorized traffic.  It will give opportunity to carry out follow-up procedures on implemented safety interventions, as well as  Annual accident development reporting.

TASK DEFINED ► The accident data collection system (“develop software for accident data management”). ► Road safety campaigning. ► Road safety audit on rural roads through investment component. ► Strengthening the management system.

ACCIDENT DATABASE as the core of road safety work ► Accidents indicate the Real Risk on the roads analysis; - Tell magnitude of the problem. - Tell magnitude of the problem. - The type of the problem with location. - The type of the problem with location. - How to avoid similar accident situations - How to avoid similar accident situations in future. in future.

► Accident data needed by many organizations. ► Output is not more reliable than the Input. ► Need for description of accidents, not the guilty one. ► Accident database is part of a system for accident data collection, storage, analysis and reporting. ACCIDENT DATABASE as the core of road safety work

ACCIDENT DATA BASE WOULD SERVE : ► Storage of accident data for separate needs. ► For use by Police for periodical reports, accidents caused, police activities and basis for enforcement strategy. ► Identification of accident accumulation points (black spots).

► Analysis of accident causes for purposes of developing counter measures in engineering, campaigning, enforcement etc. ► Follow-up studies of the implemented measures. ► Produce material for decision makers and media for public discussion on Road Safety. ACCIDENT DATA BASE WOULD SERVE :

MAIN CONTENTS OF DATA IN CATEGORIES ► General information – short summary of what happened before and at the time of accident, and the consequences. ► Place of accident – exact location and the type of environment. ► Condition – road, road surface, traffic control, lighting, weather. ► Participants – casualties and damages. ► Map environment.

LONG TERM TARGETS ► Each of 22 districts have a computer with accident database application. ► Two master systems at the H.Qs. in Karachi – RMU and RSDD. ► HQ and Districts connected through LAN for regular data feeding and updating. ► All systems to include sufficient supporting devices for communication, printing and graphics. ► Preparation of quarterly, six monthly and annual reports.

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