Road safety strategy

and action plan

Name of Tool: Road Safety Strategy and Action Plan (Barczewo, Nidzica, Olsztyn)
Pilot Area: Warmia-Mazury (Poland)
Application Area: city level
Main Aim: To strengthen road safety activities on community level
Target groups: citizens of Barczewo, Nidzica and Olsztyn
Programme Manager: Krzysztof Piskorz
SOL Project Manager
brd@word.olsztyn.pl
Data about the owner of the document
Date: March 2013
Eberhard Karls Universitt Tbingen,
Patricia Hammer (SOL Project Manager)
E-Mail: patricia.hammer@uni-tuebingen.de

Road safety strategy and action plan

Abstract
A Road Safety Strategy (RSS) is a very important tool for a system based approach towards
road safety improvement at the local level. In the case of Barczewo, Nidzica and Olsztyn it
has been developed according to the Vision Zero, which means it aims to reduce the number
of fatalities to 0 in 2020.
This road safety strategy and action plan is briefly described to be repeated and adapted
worldwide to other locations.

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A) Outline
Summary
A Road Safety Strategy (RSS) is a very important tool for a system based approach towards
road safety improvement at the local level. It strengthens road safety systems and makes all
activities coordinated and planned. In the case of Barczewo, Nidzica and Olsztyn it has been
developed according to the Vision Zero, which means it aims to reduce the number of
fatalities to 0 in 2020. The Road safety Action Plan (AP) for Barczewo and Nidzica focuses
on child injury prevention via the development of a complex programme of education and
safe school surroundings. In the Olsztyn case the AP is focused on alcohol prevention in
road traffic, and is dedicated mostly to young drivers. The APs time perspective is two years:
2013-2014.

Objectives
In all of the three cases the strategies have the same main objectives:
Objective 1: To build a basis for an effective and long-term road safety policy
Objective 2: To develop safe road user behavior
Objective 3: Protecting pedestrians, children and cyclists
Objective 4: To build and maintain a safe road infrastructure
Objective 5: Reduce accident severity and consequences of road accidents

Targets and measures of the strategy

The main targets and milestones for Barczewo:
By 2020 - maintain zero fatalities and reduce the number of persons injured by 75%
compared to 2010, i.e. no more than one victim injured annually.
In 2014 - maintain zero fatalities, no more than three persons injured annually.
In 2017 - maintain zero fatalities, no more than two persons injured annually.
The main targets and milestones for Nidzica:
By 2020 - maintain zero fatalities and reduce the number of persons injured by 60%
compared to 2010, i.e. not more than 3 victims injured annually.
In 2014 - maintain zero fatalities, no more than 7 persons injured annually.
In 2017 - maintain zero fatalities, no more than 5 persons injured annually.
The main targets and milestones for Olsztyn:
By 2020 - reducing the number of fatalities and persons injured by 50% compared to 2010,
i.e. no more than 3 fatalities and 95 injured every year.
In 2014 - no more than 5 fatalities and 160 injured victims every year.
In 2017 - no more than 4 fatalities and 115 injured victims every year.

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Vision
Zero deaths and injuries on the roads of Olsztyn, Barczewo and Nidzica

Reach
The RS fields which comprises the RS strategies and action plans cover the following areas:
Objective 1: To build a basis for an effective and long-term road safety policy
The objective will be achieved by the realisation of the following three priority activities:
I. Road safety organisation
- Improving the local road safety structures
II. Road safety management

- Organising a system for cooperation and coordination

- Organising a system of training for road safety professionals
- Improving the system for collecting, storing and analysing road accident data
- Improving cooperation with WORD Regional Road Safety Centre
- Introduction and development of a road safety funding system
III. Sectoral action

- Improving the system of school safety education

- Improving the system of driver training
- Modernising and improving the effectiveness of road traffic enforcement
- Improving the technical inspection of vehicles
- Improving the organisation of road traffic management services
- Developing a rescue system
- Helping accident victims
Objective 2: To develop safe road user behaviour
The objective will be achieved by the realisation of the following three priority activities:
I. Speed

- Improving education and public relations and promoting safe speed with a special focus on young
drivers

- Modernising speed enforcement

II. Alcohol and similar substances

- Improving public education and communications to raise awareness of the role of alcohol in drink
drive accidents

- Improving road traffic enforcement

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III. Seat belts and other restraints

- Improving public education and communications concerning seat belts, helmets and child car seats
- Improving seat belts and other restraints enforcement
Objective 3: Protecting pedestrians, children and cyclists
The objective will be achieved by the realisation of the following three priority activities:
I. Pedestrians

- Improving public education and communication concerning pedestrian safety

- Intensifying pedestrian protection using enforcement measures
- Common use of means of pedestrian protection
II. Children
- Improving public education and communication concerning in the area of child safety
- Intensifying child safety using enforcement measures
- Using road measures to protect children
III.

Cyclists

- Improving public education and communication concerning cycle safety

- Intensifying cyclist safety using traffic law enforcement measures
- Using road measures to protect cyclists
Objective 4: To build and maintain a safe road infrastructure
The objective will be achieved by the realisation of the following three priority activities:
I. Evaluation and control

- Improving the system for reviews of existing streets and roads

- Implementing road safety audits for new road projects
- Conducting systematic road safety studies
II. Development of safe network of streets
- Transforming the street network to introduce prioritising and access control
- Designing safe streets (traffic calming measures)
- Improving the quality of streets and its safety equipment
III.

Modern road traffic management

- Developing road traffic management services

- Introducing modern road traffic management
- Management mobility

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Objective 5: Reduce accident severity and consequences of road accidents

The objective will be achieved by realisation of the following two priority activities:
I. Safer street environment

- Treating and removing hazardous objects in the direct proximity of street

II. Optimisation of rescue services
- Promoting accident scene standards
- Developing specialist medical units

Justification
The pre-existing documents which inspired the RS programme and action plan: National
Road Safety Programme GAMBIT 2005-2013, Warmia-Mazury Road Safety Programme
Baseline data: police road accident statistics, institutional assessments, stakeholder analysis.

B) Management
Programming
This RS programme and action plan in accordance with the already existing (national) RS
strategies or programming.
A follow up is planned: every two years developing new action plans until 2020 for the cities:
Barczewo, Nidzica and Olsztyn.

Structure
The documents were developed by Warmia-Mazury local partners under the management of
WORD Olsztyn. They were consulted by an independent expert from Gdansk University of
Technology.

Financing
It had no special budget. Part of the work was financed from the SOL project Staff Budget
Line, part from External Experts budget line. It is hard to say what is the precise cost of this
action.

Process
May-August 2011:Building the SOL local partner working group
September - November 2011:Institutional and road safety assessment
December 2011 February 2012: Strategy development
March - April 2012: Action Plans development
May July2012: Consultations on the Strategies and Action Plans

Evaluation
The Strategies and Action Plans are now just the documents. Their implementation is
planned for 2013. They evaluation will be done after the implementation phase.

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Recommendation
It is recommended to put a big effort on building or strengthening the local road safety
management structures in case to effectively use (implement) the document.
All of the pilot actions undertaken in the frame of SOL project in Warmia-Mazury region are in
line with all existing road safety documents on regional, national and European levels.
The training will be a part of a long term educational programme for children at the Road
Safety Centres in Barczewo and Nidzica.

C) Outputs:
Deliverables
Please list the exact table of contents of the RS programme/ action plan in reference to their
pages.
Strategies:

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Action plans:

Publicity
Materials have been edited, printed and promoted by a PR Company hired by WORD
Olsztyn. A workshop and press conference organised in September 2012 was held to
disseminate and promote the documents among local decision makers and those who will
implement the strategies in the future.
The copy of the documents will be available in WORD Olsztyn and in the Barczewo, Nidzica
and Olsztyn city halls.

Feedback
No external feedback recorded

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made of the information contained therein. The project SOL Save our Lives in the Central Europe
Program www.central2013.eu is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).