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Road safety in France: the hard path toward science-based policy

Jean Chapelon Sylvain Lassarre Scientific research on road scientific management Haarlem – 16 & 17 november 2009. Road safety in France: the hard path toward science-based policy. Introduction. Very considerable advances have been made in road safety over the past 30 years. PLAN.

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Road safety in France: the hard path toward science-based policy

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  1. Jean Chapelon Sylvain Lassarre Scientific research on road scientific management Haarlem – 16 & 17 november 2009 Road safety in France: the hard path toward science-based policy

  2. Introduction Very considerable advances have been made in road safety over the past 30 years

  3. PLAN French organisation of road safety and the role played by the Road Safety Observatory What is a science-based policy? What governance?

  4. French organisation of road safety and the role played by the Road Safety Observatory Organisation of road safety in France

  5. French organisation of road safety and the role played by the Road Safety Observatory old structure The force: The Inter-Ministerial Road Safety delegate responsible for road safety in France. the Inter-Ministerial Road Safety Committee (Comité Interministériel de Sécurité Routière - CISR) which take decision, the local organisation with the important role played by the Prefect the projects leader and the local observatory the weakness: The inter-ministerial character of the delegation is more paraded than real. Of course, there are five or six advisors detached from different ministries, such as Interior, Justice, Education and Health, but their ties with their ministries of origin are loose and they have very little influence over their ministry’s actions in the area of road safety, which remains in the hands of the new Ministry of Sustainable Development, assisted by a Secretariat of Transport. the majority of road safety decisions are taken at meetings of officials on the basis of administrative and legal rather than technical and scientific factors

  6. French organisation of road safety and the role played by the Road Safety Observatory new structure the National Inter-Ministerial Road Safety Observatory which is under the authority of the road safety delegate, is to gather scientific information for the benefit of decision-makers in order to improve the quality of decisions, as well as to guide the activities of departmental road safety observatories (ODSR). the committee of experts composed of a small number of specialists, who are not necessarily the most qualified experts themselves but are able to call on the most competent specialists in every area they have to deal with. (for instance an in-depth study on drinking and driving, which required more than six months’work) the National Road Safety Council: a sort of Road Safety Parliament. It enables all the parties involved in road safety (Members of Parliament, highway administrators, insurance companies, motor manufacturers, accident victim defence associations, associations representing particular categories of road user) to meet and debate all road safety issues. As far as our area of interest is concerned, it has the enormous advantage of disseminating the culture of road safety in such a way that all the parties involved have the same level of information.

  7. PLAN French organisation of road safety and the role played by the Road Safety Observatory What is a science-based policy? What governance?

  8. What is a science-based policy? The information system Evaluating the risks Risk management

  9. What is a science-based policy? The information system Quick indicators (accidents, deaths, injuries and hospitalised victims): publication of results each 7th of month Accident records: controlled by departmental observatory with a web portal Risk exposure Speed measurements: each 4 months, 200 000 measures Measuring mobile phone use: each year, along the road Evaluating the risks Risk management

  10. What is a science-based policy? The information system Risks assessment Risk attributed to alcohol Risk attributed to speeding Risk attributed to the use of telephones while driving Risk management

  11. Risk attributed to speeding Risk attributed to speed in motorways is: (114,9/118,9)**4 -1 = -13,1%

  12. Risk attributed to the use of telephones while driving the extra risk of phoning while driving: 3.8 for hands-free sets and 4.9 for hand-held phones (McEvoy et al., 2005)‏ the average proportion of drivers observed holding a phone to their ear is 1.9% (1.8% on country roads,1.9% on urban streets, 2,6% on connecting motorway)‏ attributed risk = 1,9% x (4,9 -1) = around 7 %

  13. What is a science-based policy? The information system Evaluating the risks Risk management Monitoring: monthly analysis of the situation taking account of the effects of weather and seasonal and time-of-year factors Bench marking: a method for comparing the performance of each department by standardising the risk Policy making

  14. Monitoring: monthly analysis of the situation taking account of the effects of weather and seasonal and time-of-year factors

  15. Bench marking: a method for comparing the performance of each department by standardising the risk with j the department (from 1 to 96) and i the network (from 1 to 5), such that: t (i,j) is the number of deaths on network i in department j e (i,j) is the risk exposure on network i in department j r (i) is the average risk on network i throughout France.

  16. Bench marking: a method for comparing the performance of each department by standardising the risk

  17. PLAN French organisation of road safety and the role played by the Road Safety Observatory What is a science-based policy? What governance?

  18. What governance? (1)‏ Two action plans: the road accident victims register of the department of the Rhône and research in road safety economics Additionally, the Observatory has developed a programme for evaluating the policies pursued with teams of researchers and technicians from the Ministry, and the resulting reports have been published – one on automatic speed cameras (ONISR, 2008) and one on drinking and driving (ONISR, 2007). The experience of the past few years has shown the importance of developing simple but rigorously constructed methods and tools, providing telling results for decision-makers and the public.

  19. What governance? (2)‏ Nevertheless, the situation is far from perfect. Firstly, these tools are perfectible, and benchmarking the methods promoted by the European Commission as part of projects like DaCoTA and Safety-net, will help get them shared more widely. In terms of risk selection, the Observatory does not cover all the issues, far from it. Furthermore, experience shows that, over and beyond the results obtained and the tools used, a permanent concern is getting decision-makers to assimilate and validate them.

  20. Jean Chapelon Sylvain Lassarre Scientific research on road scientific management Haarlem – 16 & 17 november 2009 Thank you

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