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Progressing the UK towards Safe System implementation

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Project chair

Dr Suzy Charman, Executive Director, Road Safety Foundation 

   

Objectives of the report

  • Provide local authority perspectives – opinions on successes and challenges on key road safety matters.  
  • Give an overview of what the Safe System is and why it is important, providing reference to relevant road safety strategies/policies in England/Scotland/Wales/Northern Ireland, along with international best practice. 
  • Develop a matrix identifying activities that are undertaken in the implementation of a safe system, including priorities, barriers/challenges, and responsibilities. 

   

Background

Road Safety is a key theme for CIHT, and we are committed to delivering and disseminating “Good Practice” in the field of Road Safety to achieve a reduction in road deaths and injuries on roads. 

With this commitment in mind, during 2024 CIHT will be investigating what can be done to implement a Safe System for road safety in the UK.  

The Safe System contains five road safety concepts, which when used together, provide a holistic approach to minimising the number of fatal or seriously injured collisions that occur on our road networks.  

The five concepts that make up the Safe System are: 

  1. Safe road use; 
  2. Safe vehicles; 
  3. Safe speeds; 
  4. Safe roads and roadsides; 
  5. Post-crash response. 

CIHT have identified that although the Safe System seems to be widely acknowledged as best practice by many transportation professionals, there is little evidence of it being implemented in practice.  

Therefore, CIHT are undertaking a project that will investigate what the common challenges are to implementing a Safe System, what it means to implement a Safe System and who is responsible for leading activity.

   

Progress

This section will be updated throughout the course of the project.

   

How this report is being developed

The CIHT Policy and Technical team will be developing this project with help from:

  • Project Chair: Dr Suzy Charman, Executive Director, Road Safety Foundation 
  • LSTSB Representative: Kate Carpenter, Director of Operational Road Safety at Jacobs Engineering 
  • CIHT Technical Champions and the CIHT Partnerships Network  

Insight will be gathered from: 

  • Interviews with local authorities 
  • Workshops with key stakeholders 
  • A call for evidence. 

  

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Your Voice @ CIHT

If you would like to contribute your knowledge or experiences on road safety and Safe Systems then please email the CIHT Policy and Technical team at technical@ciht.org.uk .

    

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