LTSA Update

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LTSA Update

• RCA Forum - 5 March 2004

Peter Croft Manager Safer Roads
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RCA Forum - 5 March 2004

• LTSA Update
• Rules programme update
• Road Safety 2010 projects
• The SAP and the LTMA 2003
• Speed Limits Rule

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Safer Roads

• Land Transport Rules
• Vehicle Dimensions and Mass Rule - complete
• Setting of Speed Limits Rule - complete
• Dangerous Goods Amendment Rule - at MoT
• Road User Rule - at MoT
• Traffic Control Devices Rule - final drafting
• Vehicle Load Security Rule - Yellow release April

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Safer Roads

• Strategic Priorities
• Road Safety 2010 projects
• Best practice standards and guidelines
• Safety management activities in local authorities
• Roadside hazards and risk management
• Development / implementation of Rules
• Marketing, promotion of safer roads issues
• Regional and Local Authority interaction

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Road Safety 2010 in context
New Zealand Transport Strategy
Road Safety to 2010 strategy
Initial Implementation Package First Steps 2003
to 2004
Second Implementation Package 2004 to 2007
Third Implementation Package 2007-2010
27 Projects National Road Safety Committee
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Road Safety 2010 Strategy Greater emphasis on
road network

• Recent Initiatives
• Ministerial announcements re engineering,
  education, enforcement
• Programme Development
• 2nd implementation package being formed
• Relevant Roading Projects -
• Road Network Performance
• Safety Management Systems for RCAs
• Pedestrian/Cyclist Standards Guidelines
• Partnership access to CAS

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Safety Management System (SMS) Project UPDATE
Demonstration Development 2002/03 21
Demonstration RCAs Plus Transit NZ SMS
assessed 2003/04 22 new RCAs Total 43
2004/05 15 new RCAs Total 58 2005/07 Balance
(16) Total 74
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SMS Project UPDATE

• Guidelines
• Guidelines for developing a SMS
• Issues Interim Feb 03, Trial Jun 03 Review
  Workshop Sep 03
• Launch Nov 03
• Guidelines for implementing a SMS
• Issues Interim Feb 04, Trial Jun 04
• Launch Nov 04

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SMS Project UPDATE
Expertise Development RCAs 40
Consultants 2 Special support teams 9
different companies LTSA Regional Engineering
staff
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SMS Project UPDATE
Next Steps Implementation Buy-in Operational
National feedback Continue SMS
development Expertise development
strategy Evaluation and Audit
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Pedestrian Cyclist Guidelines

• Guidelines for facilities for blind and
  vision-impaired pedestrians (RTS 14)
• distributed 2003 and investigating training
  options
• Cycle Network Route Planning Guide
• Publishing underway Distribution April/May
• Pedestrian Network Planning and Facilities Design
  Guide
• Initial Stakeholder meeting December 2003
• Drafting contracts for writing the Guide and
  associated research work.

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Road Network Performance (RNP)Project Update
Component Projects Road classification Roadsid
e hazard assessment
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CAS Road Classification Trial
RNP Project Update

• 12 Authorities invited to provide
• RAMM data
• Hierarchy data (criteria)
• District plan
• Data entered into GIS
• Thematic maps

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CAS Road Classification Trial

• What did we learn?
• Rural volumes ranges too high
• Adjusted to match Transfund values
• Amended volume ranges gave good fit
• Next Steps
• Report to NRSC
• Negotiate new CAS classification with TLAs
• Enter classification into CAS
• Report on network safety 2004/2005

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Roadside Hazard Assessment

• Identify principal roadside hazards adjacent to
  NZ roads
• Confirm effect on occurrence and severity of
  crashes
• Survey the extent of the problem
• Develop cost effective remedial programme

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Roadside Hazard Assessment

• Final Report
• Strategic national overview
• extent of each hazard type
• cost for removal or mitigation
• Risk assessment tool
• on site survey forms and methodology
• risk assessment formulae

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The SAP in the context of the Land Transport
Management Act 2003 (LTMA)
Patricia McAloon Manager Safety Administration
Programme (SAP)
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Land Transport Programmes

• required to be prepared annually by every
  approved organisation
• required to be in the form prescribed by
  Transfund and the LTSA as appropriate
• safety administration outputs are a part

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Approved Organisations Land Transport Programmes
Land Transport Programmes
SafetyAdministrationProgrammeOutputs
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The SAP

• is the annual planning and funding mechanism
  for road safety
• represents a level of planning and detailed
  resource allocation, plus performance criteria
  and targets, which is considered to be world best
  practice
• commits the MoT, LTSA, Police, Transit, Regional
  Councils, TAs and communities to a solid
  partnership to improve road safety

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2004/2005 SAP

• prepared under the Transit NZ Act 1989
• has a new planning focus - road policing
  resources allocated and will be delivered
  across three road types
• urban roads
• rural state highways
• rural local roads

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The road type definitions are

• complementary to the Road Safety to 2010 strategy
  in that it concerns the road network itself
• consistent with Police Activity Management
  Systems (AMS) and can be derived from the LTSAs
  Crash Analysis System (CAS)

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2005/2006 SAP

• prepared under the Land Transport Management
  Act 2003 (LTMA), which links with the Local
  Government Act 2002 (LGA)
• prepared differently from former SAPs - LAs have
  two options for fulfilling land transport
  programme obligations

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2005/2006 SAP - two options

• 1. all land transport matters in LTCCP or annual
  plan using the required SCP, therefore
  consultation for and preparation of land
  transport programmes complete or
• 2. prepare a land transport programme annually
  using a SCP in addition to LTCCPs or annual plans

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2005/2006 SAP

• the LTSA is recommending option 1 - all land
  transport matters included in LTCCP or annual
  plan, therefore consultation for and preparation
  of land transport programmes complete
• this avoids consultation double-up and puts road
  safety on communities radars

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What is required for a LTP

• land transport safety outcomes included in
  community outcomes
• the LTCCP or annual plan reflecting land
  transport safety outcomes, as appropriate -
  linking to a LA Road Safety Strategy
• that information translated to the form
  prescribed by LTSA

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What now?

• LTSA Director contacting LA Chief Executives this
  week outlining the two options, recommending
  option one
• Feedback sought by end of March
• SAP needs to link into LA annual planning
  processes

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What now?

• Information from LA for 2005/2006
• requested by LTSA in August, as normal
• received by LTSA in November, as normal
• LTSA and Transfund working together to make the
  process as easy as possible for LAs

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Land Transport RuleSetting of Speed Limits
2003(The Speed Limits Rule)

• Richard Bean, LTSA

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• The Speed Limits Rule was signed on 25
  February 2003.
• 12 month period for preparation.
• The Rule will come into force on 5 April
  2004.
• Notice was published in the Gazette of
  Thursday 4 March 2004.

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Extract from New Zealand Gazette, 4 March 2004,
No. 22, p. 4xx ___________________________________
______________________________________________ Not
ification of Coming into Force of Ordinary
Rule Under Section 160(3) of the Land Transport
Act 1998,I give notice of the application by me
of the Land TransportRule Setting of Speed
Limits 2003 (Rule 54001). This rule was made by
me on 25 February 2003 and itscommencement was
suspended until it was applied by me,by notice
in the New Zealand Gazette. This rule comes into
force on 5 April 2004. This rule is available for
inspection free of charge at theHead Office of
the Land Transport Safety Authority ofNew
Zealand, 7 - 27 Waterloo Quay, Wellington, and
forpurchase at bookshops that sell legislation
or direct fromWickliffe Limited, P.O. Box 932,
Dunedin. Dated at Wellington this 19th day of
February 2004. PAUL DESMOND SWAIN, Minister of
Transport.
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What happens on 5 April 2004?

• RCAs will be responsible for setting speed limits
  in accordance with the Speed Limits Rule.
• Approve traffic management plans for all new
  temporary speed limits.
• Install repeater signs for 60 and 80 km/h speed
  limits.

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What do you have to do before 1 July 2005?

• Make a bylaw for all existing speed limits.
• Establish a register of speed limits.
• Install speed limit signs on both sides of the
  road (where AADT exceeds 500 vpd).
• Install repeater signs for all 60, 70 and 80 km/h
  speed limits.

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What does the LTSA have to do?

• Publicize the introduction of the rule.
• Provide technical support and training for RCAs.
• Monitor and audit RCAs.
• Exercise the powers of the Director.

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