Session 692

Joint IRTAD / NHTSA Session

International road safety benchmarking

Overview of recent road safety

developments in IRTAD countries
Stephen Perkins, ITF/OECD

TRB Annual Meeting 2015

IRTAD: International Traffic Safety
Data and Analysis Group

Mission
Network for road safety professionals
World standard road safety database
Analysis of trends
Development of methodolgies for international
benchmarking
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IRTAD Activity report

Research and analysis:
Speed and crash risk*
Road safety and economic developments*
Alcohol related crashes*
Infrastructure safety indicators*
Forecasting models
Safety indicators for cities
Twinning programmes with LMIC
Objective: improving crash data collection and analysis
Financial support from World Bank, IADB, FIA Foundation
Argentina and Cambodia: data validated in 2013
Jamaica
IRTAD 73 members & observers from 37 countries

IRTAD-LAC
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Co-operation with FIA

Agreement for co-operation on road safety projects,
to improve data collection and analysis.
Support for several projects, including
Development of global road safety indicators:
Developing benchmarking tools for road safety,
focusing on Latin America
Peer review in selected countries
focusing on data collection
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IRTAD Annual report 2014

Synthesis of main trends
2012 data
2013 provisional data
Comparative summary tables
Detailed reports for 37 countries
New countries this year: Chile, Nigeria

Report downloadable here

http://www.internationaltransportforum.
org/jtrc/safety/safety.html
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Annual Report 2014 Key Messages

Good progress the last decade in all high motorized countries
2000-2013, annual death toll in IRTAD countries fell by nearly 40%.
Pace of improvement in 2012 and 2013 was relatively low.
In 2012, five European countries managed to reduce their annual road
fatalities per 100 000 population to less than 3 (3 in 2013)
Preliminary data for 2014:
continuing decreasing trend for a majority of countries,
but a significant increase for a number of European countries
(Czech Republic, France, Germany, Sweden, UK)
to be analysed against the good performance in previous years, and
weather conditions (mild winter in early 2014 no snow or ice)
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Reduction in Fatalities: Change 2000-2013

20%
+ 14.6%
10%

0%

-10%

-20%

-30%

-40%

-50%

-60%

-70%
-70.9%
-80%
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Killed / 100 000 population

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Killed per billion vehicle-kilometer in 2013

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Key Messages (2/2)

Limited success in saving lives among vulnerable road
users: pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists.
Smallest progress with motorcyclists safety
Cycling is an increasingly popular alternative transport
mode for short trips. The increased number of cyclists has
been accompanied by a slowing of the rate of
improvement, or even an increase in cycling fatalities over
the past decade.
The share of fatalities among elderly road users is slowly
increasing in many IRTAD countries, reflecting the
changing age structure of populations.
We need to work further on collecting and analysing
serious injury data.
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Evolution in the number of fatalities among user groups

2000-2012

1.2

0.8

0.6

Powered two-wheelers

0.4
Cyclists

Pedestrians
0.2

Car occupants
0
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
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Conclusions
Good road safety data are essential to monitor the progress,
design and implement adequate road safety policies
Good progress in the last decade in OECD countries, but
decreasing pace is lower in many countries.
The situation is less positive in non OECD countries
IRTADs aim is to foster international co-operation and assist low
and middle income countries in improving their crash data
collection system.
IRTAD has been very active in analytical work :
4 presentations:
Road safety and economic development
Methodology to collect data on alcohol related crashes
Infrastructure safety management
Speed and crash risk
Contact
Stephen.perkins@oecd.org
www.internationaltransportforum.org