IRTAD Session:

International Road Safety Benchmarking

Overview of recent road safety

developments in IRTAD countries
Stephen Perkins
ITF/OECD Joint Transport Research Centre

TRB Annual Meeting, Tuesday 14 January 2014

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The IRTAD International Road Traffic

Safety Data and Analysis Group
The International Transport Forum
Latest data on safety performance
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The International Transport Forum at the OECD

Annual Intergovernmental
Think Tank Summit Organisation
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Annual Summit
Ministerial Meeting and
Declaration from Ministers

Panels for Ministers and Key

Stakeholders

Ministers Roundtables

Side Events

2013 Summit Funding Transport

Ministerial Panel on Funding Road

Safety with Development Banks
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Recent ITF Road Safety Research

Ongoing:
Cycling Safety
Motorcycling
Safety
Implementing
the Safe System
Approach

To be published in 2014: Motorcycling Safety

New Working Group: Implementation of a safe system
 IRTAD: the International Traffic Safety
Data and Analysis Group
Permanent working group under the
umbrella of ITF and OECD
70 members from 35 countries
Mission
World standard road safety database
Networking for safety professionals
Data analysis and research
IRTAD Outputs
Road safety database
Annual report on safety performance
in member countries
Research reports:
Speed and crash risk
Infrastructure safety indicators
Safey and economic developments
Serious injuries

2 annual meetings, permanent

networking
International conferences
Twinnings with potential new countries
 IRTAD coverage

IRTAD-LAC
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Latest IRTAD data: Reduction in Fatalities

Change 2012/2002
0%

-20%
-21%

-40%

-60%

-69%

-80%
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Latest IRTAD data Killed per 100 000 population

2012
30.0
27.6

25.0

20.0

15.0

10.0

5.0
2.8

0.0
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Road fatalities: 2012 compared to 2011

IRTAD forecasting model:
An advance tracking tool, predicting of annual fatalities

Prediction
Provisional data January-June

Jan 1st Autumn meeting December 31st

(October)

IRTAD members can identify already at

the autumn meeting potential
developments in road safety
Forecast for 2013

Fatality prediction
(2013) for 14
countries
Those for which
monthly data Jan-June
2013 and final data
2012 were available in
October
Most countries
perform better than
in 2012
-16.7%
-15.9%
+7.5% (?)
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Conclusions

Data for 2012 confirm decreasing trend in

fatalities in OECD countries.
IRTAD forecast model shows continuation of
trend in 2013.
Situation less positive in non OECD regions.
Regional observatory (OISEVI) proving very
useful for understanding crash trends.
Following presentations: IRTAD research and
outcome of twinning initiatives.
Thank you
stephen.perkins@oecd.org
www.internationaltransportforum.org