GETTING STARTED

• Establish design standards and guidelines that incorporate established knowledge of Human Factors.
• Where design standards already exist, review standards to ensure that current understanding of Human Factors is fully integrated with the needs of transition and reaction time, the management of the field of view and a reliable pre-programming of driver's expectations.
• Provide training for design, road operations and road management staff in Human Factors and Safe System principles, supported by Human Factors guidelines.
• Provide basic training for police and other enforcement officers in the Safe System and evidence-based enforcement principles and methods.
• Prepare a manual on signs and line markings which covers most of the frequently encountered situations, drawing on experience and examples from elsewhere.
• Obtain general agreement about the importance of speed management in achieving Safe System outcomes.
• Establish road rules that are easy to understand and are consistent with driver expectations.

MAKING PROGRESS

• Application of standards and guidelines to the design of new facilities and upgrading of old facilities.
• Creation of self-explaining roads that are matched to their function.
• Hazardous spot/road section treatment according to human factors principles
• Establishment of standards for assets, both for new assets and for assets in-service based on road users’ ability to cope with different levels of asset condition;, e.g. road surface characteristics, sign and road marking condition.
• Establishment of effective school education programmes to teach appropriate road use, tailored to the needs of individual age groups; priority should be given to child pedestrian training in elementary schools.
• Establishment of effective publicity programmes to address clearly defined behaviours, targeted at the key groups at risk; these programs should be designed to prepare road users for and to reinforce enforcement
• Revise training and testing procedures for new drivers along graduated licensing lines.
• Establishment of enforcement programmes addressed at specific high-risk behaviours, guided by intelligence on where and when it occurs.
• Ensure increased compliance with line markings, sign and signal controls.
• Ensure increased seatbelt wearing; and reduced drink driving, fatigued driving and speeding.

CONSOLIDATING ACTIVITY

• Achieving consistency in design standards, signage and pavement markings across the road network.
• Training road safety auditors in Human Factors principles, and application of these principles to road safety audits.
• Extension of self-explaining roads across the network.
• Continual progress towards a road system that meets Safe System requirements.
• Comprehensive testing of new types of treatments before installation and evaluation after installation.
• Creation of a comprehensive inventory of road assets and their condition, accompanied by a programme to ensure all assets are kept up to the established standards.
• Maintenance of age-appropriate road safety programmes throughout the pre-school and school years to develop safe pedestrian behaviour and prepare for later road use.
• Maintenance of effective publicity programmes in response to fluctuating patterns of high-risk behaviours to coordinate with enforcement activity.
• Maintenance of high levels of enforcement.
• Ensure that non-compliance with line markings, sign and signal controls is a rare exception.
• Non-wearing of seatbelts, fatigued driving, drink driving and high-level speeding should be reduced to very low levels and moderate speeding is reduced.