1. Road Safety Strategies 2015 & 2025
June 7, 2016
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Paul Arsenault, Chair of CCMTA Board

2. Overview CCMTA Road Safety Strategy 2015 and results

3. CCMTA Active for more than 75 years.
Incorporated legal not-for-profit entity.
Members are Canada’s fourteen (14) governments: provincial/territorial and federal.
Forum for P/T F governments to discuss and collaborate on emerging road safety challenges.
Most work falls under three CCMTA program committees:
Compliance and Regulatory Affairs,
Drivers and Vehicles
Road Safety Research and Policies.
Additionally, 140 stakeholders are Associates who provide input and have opportunities to be consulted on driver, vehicle, road safety and commercial carrier compliance matters. PAUSE

4. Collaboration on road safety initiatives
Our organization’s vision is to have the safest and most efficient movement of people and goods by road in the world.
Our mission, is to provide collaborative leadership in addressing Canadian road safety priorities.
Given our structure, we provide forum of collaboration for all members in order to meet our objective and mission

5. Canada’s Road Safety Strategies
Road Safety is a key priority of CCMTA
Pillar of the CCMTA strategic plan.
Canada was one of the first countries in the world to launch a national road safety strategy in 1996 with Road Safety Vision 2001.
Three strategies followed, RSV 2010, RSS 2015 and of course most recently Road Safety Strategy 2025.
Road Safety Strategy 2025 builds on lessons learned from Road Safety Strategy 2015.

6. Road Safety Strategy 2015
Vision: Canada will have the safest roads in the world.
Objectives:
Raise public awareness and commitment to road safety
Improve communication, cooperation and collaboration among stakeholders
Enhance legislation and enforcement
Improve road safety information in support of research and evaluation
RSS 2015, which concluded in December of 2015 ran for a 5 year period
Its objectives were to:
Raise public awareness and commitment to road safety
Improve communication, cooperation and collaboration among stakeholders
Enhance legislation and enforcement
Improve road safety information in support of research and evaluation

7. Road Safety Strategy 2015
directional downward trends in fatalities and serious injuries throughout its five- year lifecycle.
featured a framework of “proven and promising practices” which focused on key risk groups and contributing factors – in the form of an on-line inventory
enabled jurisdictions to create their own P/T/F action plans, based on their needs and priorities.
directional downward trends in fatalities and serious injuries throughout its five-year lifecycle.
featured a framework of “proven and promising practices” which focused on key risk groups and contributing factors – in the form of an on-line inventory
enabled jurisdictions to create their own P/T/F action plans, based on their needs and priorities.

8. RSS 2015 – roadsafetystrategy.ca
This slide depicts a screen shot of the online inventory tool which is available to jurisdictions, and stakeholders.
can search by type (i.e., vehicle, road, road user), risk group, contributing factor and intervention to identify the proven or promising solution to address their specific challenge.
If you are interested in accessing the tool, simply go to roadsafetystrategy.ca. and click on Road Safety Measures

9. Road Safety Strategy 2015 Risk Groups: Young drivers under 25
VRU (i.e. pedestrians, motorcyclists and cyclists)
Medically-at-risk-drivers
Motor carriers
High-risk drivers
General population
Road Safety Strategy 2015 targeted all road users above.

10. Improvement in level of road safety over three National Road Safety Plans
Traffic Fatalities
1996 fatality count (3,129)
RSV 2001 launched: 1996
RSV 2010 launched: 2002
RSV 2010 target (2,064)
2014 (1,834)
RSS 2015 launched: 2011
We have seen fatalities decline by 41% between the beginning of the first Road Safety Vision – Vision 2001 which launched in 1996 and 2014, close to the end of RSS 2015’s timeline
That is good news.

11. Improvement in level of road safety over three National Road Safety Plans
Serious Injuries
1996 Seriously Injured toll (18,734)
RSV 2001 launched:
1996
RSV 2010 launched: 2002
RSS 2015 launched: 2011
RSV 2010 target (11,607)
2014 (9,647)
Similar trend line can be seen when looking at serious injuries which is defined as where victims are admitted to hospital for treatment.
Serious injuries have declined by 49% over the period, from Road Safety Vision 2001, well into the period of Road Safety Strategy 2015.

12. Road Safety Strategy 2015 - National Progress
Fatalities – Avg against baseline
When looking at specific fatality indicators there have been reductions in almost all of the fatality indicators in compared to the baseline period.
One indicator that has shown an increase is drugged driving.

13. Road Safety Strategy 2015 - National Progress
Serious injuries – Avg against baseline
There have also been reductions in all of the serious injury indicators in compared to the baseline period.
Note that currently, there is no national data concerning drug use by seriously injured drivers.

14. Summary of Progress - RSS 2015
Over the first four years of RSS 2015, both fatalities and serious injuries were 21% lower compared to the baseline. Encouraging news. But we must remain vigilant.
Based on our ranking compared to other countries, Canada is working to improve our progress, and RSS 2025, launched earlier this year, will help us.

15. Road Safety Strategy 2025 Towards Zero: The safest roads in the world
In January the CoMT announced the next Road Safety Strategy
RSS 2025 – towards Zero – the safest roads in the world
roadsafetystrategy.ca

16. Road Safety Strategy 2025 What’s new: Safe System Approach
Vision statement: “Towards Zero - The safest roads in the world
Two new objectives:
Improving engineering of vehicles & road infrastructure
Leveraging technology & innovation
10 Year Program:

17. Road Safety Strategy 2025 Safe System Approach
SSA is how many countries that are leading in road safety are achieving their vision of eliminating deaths and serious injuries.
It accommodates human error and seeks to align safety decisions, rather than compete with values such as economic, human, environmental and health goals.
It focuses on safer vehicles, safer road infrastructure, and safer road users.
It is recognized that Canadian jurisdictions will implement the SSA in a manner that is appropriate to their environment

18. Road Safety Strategy 2025 Revised Risk Groups Young/novice drivers
Vulnerable road users (pedestrians, motorcyclists, cyclists)
Medically at risk drivers
Commercial drivers
High risk drivers
General population
Most of the target risk groups of RSS 2025 remain the same as RSS 2015
The risk groups in blue have been added or modified
Novice drivers were added since some of them are not young
The focus on motor carrier safety is now Commercial Drivers

19. Road Safety Strategy 2025 Expanded contribution factors:
Distracted driving
Alcohol impaired driving
Drug impaired driving
Fatigue impaired driving
Speed and aggressive driving
Unrestrained occupants
Environmental factors
Road infrastructure
Vehicle factors
The contributing factors are similar except :
impaired driving has been separated into alcohol and drug impaired driving since they are different road safety issues and require different approaches,
road infrastructure has been separated from environmental factors such as weather conditions, and vehicle factors have been added to fully adopt the Safety System Approach

20. Road Safety Strategy 2025 Road Safety Measures
Information/data/research
Policy/legislation/regulation
Enforcement
Communication/awareness
Education/training
Technology
Partnerships
RSS 2025 continues with these six categories of RSS interventions.
The CCMTA RSS 2025 online inventory of proven and promising road safety will be updated and maintained, based on current research and evaluation.

21. Road Safety Strategy 2025
Some recently identified activities that might help members make evidence-based decisions / inform legislation and perhaps develop specific jurisdictional strategies - pertain to the issue of cannabis and driving and driving while distracted
lessons learned re the legalization of cannabis will help inform how we deal with the issue in Canada.
growing concern that driver distraction has surpassed alcohol impaired driving as a contributing factor in crashes.
understand the evolving use of technology and the effectiveness of jurisdictional interventions to date in mitigating distracted driving.

22. Road Safety Strategy 2025 Evaluation and reporting
Progress will be measured in the same fashion as we measured RSS 2015: rate-based vs actual numbers. Specifically:
Fatalities and serious injuries per billion kilometres travelled, and
Fatalities and serious injuries per one hundred thousand population.
Periodic updates will be made to the Council of Deputy Ministers Responsible for Transportation and Highway Safety and a mid-term review of the strategy after the fifth year (i.e., 2020).

23. Road Safety Strategy 2025
That takes us to the end of this morning’s presentation.
I’m happy to answer any questions.