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

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

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

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% (+/- 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

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.

Overview Pillar 2: Safer Roads and Mobility Pillar 4: Safe Road User 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

Strategic Context +/- 22 200 km

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.

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

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..

Engineering / Infrastructure Interventions Engineering / Infrastructure Courtesy Jan Coetzee

Engineering / Infrastructure Interventions Engineering / Infrastructure

R300 Median Fence on Barrier (400 m)

R300 Median Fence on Barrier (Extended for 5 km)

SANRAL Road Safety Strategy

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

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)

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

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

Retrofit existing infrastructure A Safer Place to Cross

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

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

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

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)

What is a Road Safety Audit ?

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

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

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

Road Safety Audit Policy

Road Safety Audit Policy Which Projects undergo RSA?

Road Safety Audit Policy Minimum Requirements of RSA Team

Road Safety Audit Policy Minimum Requirements of RSA Team

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

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

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

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