1. International Road Safety Data, Policy Development and Cooperation
Stephen Perkins
Joint Transport Research Centre

2. The International Transport Forum at the OECD
Think Tank
Annual
Summit
Intergovernmental Organisation

3. Outline
Policy for accelerating reductions in deaths and serious injuries
Targets and the importance of data and analysis
International benchmarking and policy transfer
UN Decade of Action
Improving data on serious injuries
Transfer of evaluation results

4. Road Safety Policy Towards Zero: Ambitious Targets and the Safe System Approach
Sweden and Netherlands have led the way
Vision Zero and Sustainable Safety
Inspiring long term vision to eliminate deaths and serious injuries
Steady progress through interim targets based on funded interventions
Netherlands targets 2020:
Deaths < 500
Serious injuries <

5. Reduction in Fatalities: Change 2010/2001

6. Killed per 100 000 IRTAD countries 2010

7. Killed per Billion Vehicle km 2010

8. Ingredients for success reported by countries
Active and passive safety of vehicles
Passenger protection (EuroNCAP)
Electronic Stability Control
Speed management
Automatic speed cameras
Section control
Safer infrastructure
Expansion of Motorway network
Median barriers
Young drivers
Graduated licensing
Legislation
Demerit point systems
Random breath testing
Lower BAC level for young and professional drivers

9. Policy context for success of the past decade
Political awareness
E.g.. President Chirac (France) in July 2002 ; Spain
Adoption of safe system approach principles
« Towards zero » progressively become the standard
Sweden and NL were pioneers
Adoption of road safety targets
ECMT and EC (-50%) targets
National targets
Regular monitoring
Road safety action plans

10. The UN Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020
11 May 2011

11. UN Decade of Action
United Nations Road Safety Collaboration

12. Five pillars for a Safe Systems approach
- non monthly -
DECADE GLOBAL PLAN
Five pillars for a Safe Systems approach
Managing road safety
Safer
Roads & Mobility
Safer Vehicles
Safer User behaviour
Post-crash response

13. UN Decade of Action Global Plan based on the safe system approach
Five Pillars

14. Objectives:
Maximise fundraising potential of the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety
Promote the Tag to generate funds from corporate and philanthropic sectors and public

15. Private sector engagement:
Global Supporters donate $150,000 per year, minimum 3 years
- directed funding, to agreed
project
- undirected donation
Supporters can join for $15,000 a year

17. Safe road infrastructure assessments
in more than 60 countries.

18. ‘helmets for kids’ in Vietnam and Cambodia
Motorcycle safety campaigns and
‘helmets for kids’ in Vietnam and Cambodia

19. Research Collaboration to Benefit Safety of all Road Users

20. IRTAD: International Traffic Safety Data and Analysis Group
Mission
High standard road safety database
Analysis of data with peers
Network for road safety data and analysis professionals
Expert working group
Under the umbrella of ITF and OECD
Funded separately by subscription from members
IRTAD is a permanent road safety group of the OECD / ITF.
It include around 60 members from 336countries.
Its goal is to:
Provide a world standard road safety database
To establish a global network of road safety professions
To conduct ad-hoc road safety analysis on specific topic (seatbelt, underreporting, linking hospital and police data ..)
The OECD – Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - is an interngovernment organisation which brings together 30 contries to support sustainable economic growth/ The Organisation provides a setting where governments compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practice and coordinate domestic and international policies.
The International Transport Forum, is a sister organisation of the OECD; It includes 52 countries. The International Transport Forum is a global platform and meeting place at the highest level for transport, logistics and mobility. The aim of the Forum is to foster a deeper understanding of the essential role played by transport in the economy and society.  
The highlight of the International Transport Forum's activities is the annual summit in Leipzig, which has the ambition to become the "Transport Summit of the Year".  
2011 = Transport for Society. Including a high level event on road safety  

21. 60 Members 33 Countries

22. Knowledge transfer: IRTAD Twinning Projects
Objective to progressively expand geographical coverage, while keeping a high quality database
Twinning : Existing Member + LMIC:
Audit of national crash data system: collection and analysis
Training focused on specific
Regular exchanges of staff over 3 years
Argentina – Spain:
After one year, adoption in almost all Provinces of a common crash data form
Cambodia – Netherlands
Linking Police and Hospital Data
Target seting for road safety strategy
Funding through voluntary contributions
MOU with the World Bank
FIA Foundation
IADB, Others

23. Ibero American Road Safety Observatory
Following the succesful twinning between Argentina – Spain
Creation of the Ibero American Road Safety Observatory (OISEVI):
Launched by 18 countries in March 2012
IRTAD LAC database with a Spanish interface
Objective: learning tool and progressive inclusion in IRTAD

24. IRTAD MEMBER COUNTRIES IRTAD-LAC
IRTAD membership
Open to all countries (not only ITF/OECD countries)
Current 33 members, including Jordan, Malaysia, Argentina, Cambodia
Ambition is to progressively include more countries, while focusing on high quality data
Co-operation programme in place for twinning projects between existing member and candidate coutnries from low and middle income countries to set up and improve good data collection and analysis system 24

26. The Serious Injury Problem
Why slower progress?
Can we trust the data?
2010
France
Germany
Fatalities
3 992
3 648
Hospitalised
30 393
62 620
Injured
84 461
x 2
x 4

27. We need better injury record systems
To assess the real number of serious injuries
Real costs of road crashes
To understand the consequences of different crash types
To design adequate countermeasures to reduce serious injures

28. Reporting injuries: IRTAD recommendations
Complement police data with hospital data
Medics not police to assess severity of injuries
Classify injuries to international standards
Maximum Abbreviated Injury Scale (MAIS)
Link police and hospital data
Deterministic and probabilistic methods exist
Agree an international definition of serious injuries for research and benchmarking Define ‘seriously injured road casualty’ as injuries assessed at level 3 or more on the Maximum Abbreviated Injury Scale “MAIS3+”

29. Abbreviated Injury Scale
MAIS3+
Example
Region
Injury description
Abbreviated Injury Scale
Head and Neck
Cerebral contusion 3
Face
No injury
Chest
Flail chest 4
Abdomen
Minor contusion of liver
Complex rupture of spleen 2 5
Extremity
Fractured femur
External
MAXIMUM
Report:

30. New Collaborative Road Safety Research
Cycling Safety
Motorcycling Safety
Implementing the Safe System Approach

31. Sharing Road Safety Developing an International Framework for Crash Modification Functions
Road safety policy is increasingly dependent on sound indicators of the effectiveness of countermeasures - CMFs are fundamental
Prospect of rapid advances and major cost savings through the transfer of results internationally
Transferability relies on analysing the extent to which a CMF is dependent on the circumstances in which it was developed
Variability in CMF research results is a major deterrent to transferability - can be reduced by making the CMF a function of the relevant circumstances

32. Recommendations
Road safety policies should undergo performance and efficiency evaluation - cannot be undertaken without CMFs
Follow the guidance in the report and provide information on essential reporting elements
Coordination of research on priority countermeasures should be considered within an international group (TRB, PIARC, other)
Transnational database is needed for CMFs
A concerted effort should be made to publicize benefits of decision-making based on CMFs

33. Conclusions
Safe system principles standard for developing road safety policies.
Implies a long term vision that no one killed or seriously injured.
And interim targets based on modelled impact of measures adopted.
Modelling impacts needs reliable crash modification functions.
Needs good data and analysis, including injury data.
Police and hosptial data are complementary and can be usefully linked.
International definition of serious injury is needed MAIS 3+ should be considered.
International benchmarking and knowledge transfer important – enhanced opportunities in Decade of Action.

34. stephen.perkins@oecd.org www.internationaltransportforum.org
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