1. Safer Roads Seminar
Safe Systems - What is Main Roads role?
Menno Henneveld
Commissioner of Main Roads
25 August 2008

2. Contents
• Towards Zero Strategy
• Main Roads 2k12 – Strategic Plan
• Main Roads’ road safety areas of focus
• Our legacy

3. Towards Zero Strategy
• Vision: A road transport system where crashes
resulting in death or serious injury are virtually
eliminated.
Strategy Cornerstones
• Safe Road Use
• Safe Roads and Roadsides
• Safe Speeds
• Safe Vehicles
• Safe System foundations

4. 2k12 – Main Roads strategic plan
• Purpose: To provide safe and efficient road access
that will enhance community lifestyles and ensure
economic prosperity.
Strategy Areas of focus
• Providing the right roads for WA
• Making roads work for the
community
• Creating our workforce of the future
• Facilitating leadership
• Enhancing our relationships

5. Optimising programs & projects
Activities and initiatives include:
• Improved tools and access to data (CRASHtool)
• Development of network risk assessment methods
• Continued research into treatment effectiveness
• Demonstration projects into emerging technology (ITS, ISA)
• Research to evaluate program effectiveness
Area of focus objective:
• To ensure optimal use of road safety
investment.

6. Safe system approach -1
Safe roads and roadsides activities and initiatives
include:
• Incorporate into road safety auditing
• Establish safe system approach as part of project
development stage
• Review and enhance design policy and practice
• Include ‘safe system’ treatments in projects
Area of focus objective:
• To embed safe system approach into
Main Roads policy and practice.

7. Safe system approach - 2
Safe speeds activities and initiatives include:
• Review speed limit policy to be underpinned by Safe System
approach
• Develop speed limit policy for targeted reductions for
deficient infrastructure
• Review speed limits and undertake demonstration projects
in high pedestrian areas
Area of focus objective:
• To gain community support for speed
limits that reduce road trauma.

8. Delivering programs & projects
Activities and initiatives include:
• Investigate project packaging
• Increase project staging and staged funding
• Investigate alternative delivery mechanisms
• Strengthen partnerships with utilities to assist with delivery
Area of focus objective:
• To deliver 100% of the Program.

9. Our legacy 2
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Source: Towards Zero based on 2006 data: Australian data from ABS, 2000. International data from IRTAD, 2008