Regional Road Safety Plan

 

The current Regional Road Safety Plan was adopted in October 2009 by the Regional Transport Committee.

Road safety vision
To continuously improve the level of regional road safety based on a firmly estalbished safety culture.

Safer systems approach
International best practice recommends a systems approach be applied to the road safety problem with a focus on safer roads and roadsides, safer vehicles, safer road users and safer speeds.

This approach uses appropriate combinations of engineering, education and enforcement to achieve a safer system.  The Ministry of Transport is supporting a systems approach as they go about developing the new national road safety strategy to 2020.  The approach has been used in the development of the plan’s action programme.

Action programme
The plan includes an action programme aimed at improving the region’s road safety outcomes to address the issues highlighted in a comprehensive road safety study  undertaken in late 2008.