Statistics – what the numbers tell us! Gerard Waldron, Managing Director ARRB Group

What statistics are we looking at? Freight Task – growth – composition – distance travelled Crashes – cost – number – trends Recap of what the Statistics tell us Strategies and Actions Plans Presentation outline

VKT by vehicle type Australian Infrastructure Statistics, BITRE, December 2014

As of 2014 Motor Vehicle Census Data reveal that there are: 465,122 rigid trucks – 329,464 heavy rigid trucks – 135,658 light rigid trucks 93,853 articulated trucks 94,131 buses 23,144 non-freight carrying vehicles (e.g. tow-trucks) 2.82 million LCVs million total number of vehicle registered Source: Australian Bureau of Statistic Motor Vehicle Census, Australia 31 January 2014 (ABS ) 2014 Motor Vehicle Census

YearNSWVicQldSAWATasNTACTAustralia Total 186 (32%) 110 (19%) 156 (27%) 45 (8%) 51 (8%) 20 (3%) 9 (2%) 3 (1%) 580 (100%) Articulated Fatal Crashes Source: Fatal HV crashes Australia Oct – Dec 2013 (BITRE)

YearNSWVicQldSAWATasNTACTAustralia Total 227 (33%) 123 (18%) 188 (28%) 52 (8%) 60 (9%) 21 (3%) 9 (1%) 3 (< 1%) 683 (100%) Articulated Crash Fatalities Source: Fatal HV crashes Australia Oct – Dec 2013 (BITRE)

YearNSWVicQldSAWATasNTACTAustralia Total 104 (29%) 82 (23%) 72 (20%) 20 (6%) 62 (18%) 9 (2%) 3 (1%) 2 (1%) 354 (100%) Rigid Truck Fatal Crashes Source: Fatal HV crashes Australia Oct – Dec 2013 (BITRE)

YearNSWVicQldSAWATasNTACTAustralia Total 114 (28%) 96 (24%) 82 (20%) 21 (5%) 70 (18%) 12 (3%) 5 (1%) 2 (< 1%) 402 (100%) Rigid Truck Fatalities Source: Fatal HV crashes Australia Oct – Dec 2013 (BITRE)

YearNSWVicQldSAWATasNTACTAustralia Total 36 (37%) 19 (20%) 29 (30%) 6 (6%) 2 (2%) 1 (1%) 97 (100%) Bus Fatal Crashes Source: Fatal HV crashes Australia Oct – Dec 2013 (BITRE)

YearNSWVicQldSAWATasNTACT Austral ia Total 38 (35%) 22 (20%) 35 (32%) 6 (6%) 2 (2%) 1 (1%) 108 (100%) Bus Fatalities Source: Fatal HV crashes Australia Oct – Dec 2013 (BITRE)

YearArtic%Rigid%Buses%Total Total Fatal Crashes by HV Type Source: Fatal HV crashes Australia Oct – Dec 2013 (BITRE)

YearArtic%Rigid%Buses%Total Total Fatalities by HV Type Source: Fatal HV crashes Australia Oct – Dec 2013 (BITRE)

YearAll Road FatalitiesHV Fatalities% of HV Fatalities 20091, , , , , Average1, HV Fatalities as a Proportion of All Road Fatalities

Social Cost of Road Crashes$ Billion All Road Crashes Heavy Vehicle Crashes5.9 2 HV Crashes: Societal Cost 1 Source: Impact of road trauma and measures to improve outcome Report 140 BITRE 2 Based on 18.1% of all crashes involving a Heavy Vehicle

Major growth in Articulated Truck and LCV travel across Australia, more than twice the rate of Rigid Trucks On average, over the 5-year period, there have been: – 4 fatal HV crashes each week that resulted in about 5 fatalities – 10 fatal Articulated Truck crashes each month that resulted in 11 fatalities – 6 fatal Rigid HV crashes each month that resulted in about 7 fatalities – almost 2 fatal bus crashes each month that resulted in 2 fatalities On average 18.1% of all fatalities involve a HV. Est. Annual Societal Cost of HV Crashes is $5.9 Billion Recap of what the Statistics tell us:

National Road Safety Strategy (2011 – 2020) – Corporate responsibilities p35 – Organisational adoption of ISO Road traffic safety (RTS) management systems – Requirements with guidance for use National Road Safety Action Plan 2015 – 2017 – Action 18: Encourage private sector organisations to implement best practice fleet and workplace safety policies. Implementation: Work with the National Road Safety Partnership Program (NRSPP) to encourage road safety improvements in the workplace. Strategies and Action Plans

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