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Phase 1 Results
Tyre Safety Study
The project
Project Owner
QP MD
Action Items
1.17 - To complete an audit of 3.12 - Develop a targeted enforcement
research on road safety conducted strategy based on the analysis of
in Qatar to identify knowledge and crash data, periodic inspection
gaps. … failure statistics, and a survey
3.10 - Investigate the safety of 3.11 of
- Establish and implement a
vehicle defects.
balloon tyres and develop policy proactive “in use” inspection
and enforcement methods as policy. Train the police in
required. delivery of targeted enforcement
of vehicle standards.
UTQG - Temperature X X (A or B)
UTQG - Traction X X
Ministry of the Environment
UTQG - Tread Wear X X
Rolling Resistance
Qatar General Organization for Standards
and Metrology Minimum Speed Rating X (S)
Mean Monthly Relative Humidity
Tyre Safety Study 100
70 USA
Europe
GCC
60 Qatar
50
40
30
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Mean Monthly Minimum and Maximum Temperatures Mean Monthly Number of Hours of Sunshine
50 350
40 300
Mean Monthly Temperature (degC)
USA USA
20
Europe Europe
200
GCC GCC
10 Qatar Qatar
150
0
100
-10
-20 50
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Tyre Safety Study
Tyre online survey
• Electronic survey (153 Arabic, 655 English)
– 808 responses in 6 organisations Do you Drive in the Desert?
• 41 nationalities represented
– 36.6% Indian, 11.4% Filipino, 10.7% Qatari
– Majority male, married, educated Yes : 19.9%
Count
150
50 53
• 10.5% failed inspection due to tyre related 36 35
infractions (e.g. Tread depth). 0
1 0 5 1 3 17 4
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Tire DOT Year
Structural Operational
1. Introduce road safety manual containing 1. Institute yearly vehicle technical inspection, after 1st
pertinent traffic law information for drivers year of service.
including tyre information.
Produce in multiple common languages. 2. Strengthen vehicle inspection standards &
enforcement
Behavioural Empirical
1. Conduct education campaign to stress tyre 1. Conduct tyre testing to confirm regulatory
maintenance importance. Expand tyre DOT code standards are sufficient for Qatar’s environment.
awareness campaign to include other relevant
tyre attributes. 2. Quantify tyre performance as a function of
accumulated thermal life of tyres in Qatar.
2. Provide tyre pressure gauges at vehicle and tyre
points of sale. 3. Quantify tyre dynamics during desert driving.
3. Increase free access to tyre fill stations. 4. Quantify accumulated experience of repeated desert
Investigate tyre filling during refueling. driving.
4. Ensure vehicle service centers are performing tyre 5. Quantify the quality of roads in Qatar.
maintenance.
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• Training in fully controlled environment
– Safe
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– Environmental conditions
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– Feedback
Tyre Safety Study
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Tyre Safety Study
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