1. Session 2D: Road Safety Audit Workshop, 10 July 2018
Road Safety Tools and the Current Status of Road Safety Audits in South Africa
Randall Cable

2. Overview Road Safety Business Case SANRAL Road Safety Strategy
Road Safety Audits
Policy
Minimum requirements
Close-out Procedure

3. Cost of Crashes R143 billion p.a, 3.4% of GDP
Cost of Crashes in South Africa (CSIR, Sep 2016)

4. Business Case for Road Safety
Strategic / Business Case Focus Area
(Fatal) (Serious Injury) = Crashes
6% of total Crashes
But represents 63% (+/- R90 billion) of the cost of Crashes
We should be focusing on Serious Injury and Fatal crash types
Pedestrians makeup 40% of all Road fatalities
This guides the type of infrastructure we provide, and who we target.
R90

5. Safe System Approach
Despite all efforts to prevent crashes, road users will remain fallible and crashes will occur.
Safe System approach is to ensure that in the event of a crash, the impact energies remain below the threshold likely to produce either death or serious injury.
It stresses that those involved in the design of the road transport system need to accept and share responsibility for the safety of the system, and those that use the system need to accept responsibility for complying with the rules and constraints of the system.

6. Overview Pillar 2: Safer Roads and Mobility Pillar 4: Safe Road User
Total network : km
Surfaced : km
Overview
Pillar 2: Safer Roads and Mobility
Pillar 4: Safe Road User
Pillar 5: Post-Crash Responses

7. Strategic Context
+/ km

8. Strategic Context National Road Network
The +/ km represents only 2.9 % of the km of RSA network
but carries 33,1% of all traffic, and
more than 80% of all long distance road freight.

9. Strategic Context National Road Network
Continue to invest in our national asset
2010/11 to 2017/18, SANRAL awarded >1000 contracts worth > R100 billion for new works, rehabilitation and improvement, and various maintenance cycles

10. Strategic Context National Road Network
Engineering interventions
Leading Fatal and Serious Injury Crash Types
Vulnerable Road Users Specifically Pedestrians (Approximately 40% of road deaths)
Vehicular Crashes
Intersections
Single vehicle (run off road type)
Head-on collisions
Our crash data not that great, but we know WHO are dying on our roads..

11. Engineering / Infrastructure
Interventions
Engineering / Infrastructure
Courtesy Jan Coetzee

12. Engineering / Infrastructure
Interventions
Engineering / Infrastructure

13. R300 Median Fence on Barrier (400 m)

14. R300 Median Fence on Barrier (Extended for 5 km)

15. SANRAL Road Safety Strategy

16. SANRAL Road Safety Strategy
Road Safety Assessments
Safe Systems Priority interventions, Peds, Head-on, Intersections, runoff road
Road Safety Education and Awareness (School Programme)
Road Incident Management Systems
Road Safety Assessments
Road User Behaviour Research
Freeway Management System (ITS)
Road Safety Audits
Partnerships with Law Enforcement
Hazardous Location Programme
Smart Roads / Technical Innovation Hub

17. Pillar 2: Safer Roads and Mobility
Strategic Road Infrastructure
Pedestrian Infrastructure
Hazardous Location Programmes
Road Safety Assessments – Netsafe©
Understanding Road Safety Risk
Road Safety Audit (Policy/Procedure)
SANRAL Core Business (Maintain and Develop the Primary Road Network)

18. Pillar 2: Safer Roads and Mobility
Engineering Priorities: Pedestrians
Genuine need for pedestrians to cross or travel along major routes.
Vulnerable Road Users: Pedestrians
Poorest of the poor - Captive Road Users
Poor land use planning resulting in unsafe desire lines

19. Retrofit existing infrastructure A Safer Place to Walk
After
Before
In some cases the road space can be shared by modifying the road environment.

20. Retrofit existing infrastructure A Safer Place to Cross

21. Pedestrian Hazardous Location Programmes
Identified, Investigated, Commencement of Implementation of Remedial Measures (Some Examples) >116 Ped. Locations since 2010/11
Limpopo Province, Sekhukhuni DM, Greater Tubatsi LM, R555
Eastern Cape Province, OR Tambo DM, KSD LM, Mount Nicholas Pedestrian Bridge, R61/8 (Km 26.14)
KwaZulu-Natal – Pedestrian Facilities N2 Section 32 on Pongola Town
Western Cape Province, Cape Town Metropolitan, R300
Limpopo Province, Vhembe DM, Makhado LM, R578 Giyani Access Facilities

22. Technology and Road Safety
Embrace Important Role of Technology and Innovation in tackling Road Safety, by promoting Smart Road Technologies, e.g:
CCTV Surveillance - Improved incident detection
Safer Work Zones
Average Speed Enforcement (ANPR)
Automated Pedestrian Detection and Tracking
Advanced Warning Systems
Drone Applications
Renewable Energy Street Lighting

23. SANRAL Road Safety Strategy
Road Safety Assessments
Safe Systems Approach
Priority interventions
Road Safety Education and Awareness (School Programme)
Road Incident Management Systems
Road Safety Assessments
Road User Behaviour Research
Freeway Management System (ITS)
Road Safety Audits
Partnerships with Law Enforcement
Hazardous Location Programme
Smart Roads / Technical Innovation Hub

24. Role of Road Safety Audits
Proactive means of ensuring that we provide road infrastructure, that is more forgiving, self-explaining, meets the needs of all road users.
Promotes a culture of road safety among Designers
Promoting Safe System Philosophy
Special emphasis on high risk issues (mitigating fatal and serious injury crashes in designs)

25. What is a Road Safety Audit ?

26. What is a Road Safety Audit ?
A Road Safety Audit is not:
A Road Safety Investigation
A Road Safety Assessment
An Audit of Design Standards and Specifications

27. Road Safety Audit Process
A Road Safety Audit – 4 Main Steps

28. Road Safety Audit Process
A Road Safety Audit – 4 Main Steps

29. Road Safety Audit Policy

30. Road Safety Audit Policy
Which Projects undergo RSA?

31. Road Safety Audit Policy
Minimum Requirements of RSA Team

32. Road Safety Audit Policy
Minimum Requirements of RSA Team

33. Road Safety Audit Policy
Close-Out Procedures
Step 1: Issue of RSA Report
First draft ensure within the brief
Once Final Report Issued, cannot be amended
Step 2: Completion Meeting
Understand RSA Team Approach
Step 3: Engineer’s Response Report
Prepare a response to each finding
Step 4: Client sign – off
Agree, Disagree or Amend the Response, and give instruction

34. NRSS 2016-2030: Strategic Objectives and Key Performance Indicators for Pillar 2

35. RSA Capacity Development:
ECSA Accredited Road Safety Audit Courses (SARF)
2 Day RSA Course (2 CPD)
Road Authority Project or Programme Managers, or Engineering Services (Consultants) Manager
5 Day RSA Course (5 CPD)
Road Safety Auditors (Practical, Hands-on)
Steady Stream of Projects with Road Safety Audits > 2017/18 more than 50 projects

36. Thank You For Attention ! cabler@nra.co.za