Session 2 D Road Safety Audit Workshop 10

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

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

Cost of Crashes • R 143 billion p. a, 3. 4% of GDP – Cost of Crashes in South Africa (CSIR, Sep 2016) 3

Business Case for Road Safety • Strategic / Business Case Focus Area • 11 144 (Fatal) + 40 117 (Serious Injury) = 51 261 Crashes • 6% of total Crashes • But represents 63% (+/- R 90 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. 4

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. 5

Total network : 750 000 km Surfaced : 154 000 km Overview • Pillar 2: Safer Roads and Mobility • Pillar 4: Safe Road User • Pillar 5: Post-Crash Responses 6

Strategic Context +/- 22 200 km 7

Strategic Context National Road Network • The +/- 22 200 km represents only 2. 9 % of the 750 000 km of RSA network – but carries 33, 1% of all traffic, and – more than 80% of all long distance road freight. 8

Strategic Context National Road Network • Continue to invest in our national asset – 2010/11 to 2017/18, SANRAL awarded >1000 contracts worth > R 100 billion for new works, rehabilitation and improvement, and various maintenance cycles 9

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. . 10

Interventions Engineering / Infrastructure Courtesy Jan Coetzee

Interventions Engineering / Infrastructure

R 300 Median Fence on Barrier (400 m) 13

R 300 Median Fence on Barrier (Extended for 5 km) 14

SANRAL Road Safety Strategy 15

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 16

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) 17

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 18

Retrofit existing infrastructure A Safer Place to Walk After Before 19 19

Retrofit existing infrastructure A Safer Place to Cross 20 20

Pedestrian Hazardous Location Programmes Identified, Investigated, Commencement of Implementation of Remedial Measures (Some Examples) >116 Ped. Locations since 2010/11 Eastern Cape Province, OR Tambo DM, KSD LM, Mount Nicholas Pedestrian Bridge, R 61/8 (Km 26. 14) Western Cape Province, Cape Town Metropolitan, R 300 Kwa. Zulu-Natal – Pedestrian Facilities N 2 Section 32 on Pongola Town Limpopo Province, Sekhukhuni DM, Greater Tubatsi LM, R 555 Limpopo Province, Vhembe DM, Makhado LM, R 578 Giyani Access Facilities 21

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 22

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 23

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) 24

What is a Road Safety Audit ? 25

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 26

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

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

Road Safety Audit Policy 29

Road Safety Audit Policy • Which Projects undergo RSA? 30

Road Safety Audit Policy • Minimum Requirements of RSA Team 31

Road Safety Audit Policy • Minimum Requirements of RSA Team 32

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 33

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

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 35

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