Road Safety Framework

Road Safety Strategy 2010
This will be the key strategic document for road safety in New Zealand when it is released later this year. It will replace the National Road Safety Plan 1995, which set national goals and targets for December 2001 and key areas of activity for government and community organisations involved in road safety.

The new Road Safety Strategy 2010 will reflect recent government decisions, which in turn was bases on an extensive consultation process carried out in late 2000 by the National Road Safety Committee (NRSC). It will also be informed by the objectives and priorities of the New Zealand Transport Strategy currently in draft form.

Consultation documents

Consultation document – a proposed Road Safety Strategy 2010
Working Paper 6: Predicting and costing road safety outcomes (PDF, 121 KB)
Working Paper 7: Estimated effects of interventions on road safety outcomes to 2000 (PD,F 196 KB)
These working papers outline the detailed analyses undertaken to prepare the consultation document.
Consultation report (PDF version, 241 KB)
Describes the consultation process, and reports on key issues and implications for the strategy.
Summary of submissions (PDF version, 241 KB)
Summarises the views expressed in written submissions

Community Road Safety Strategy
The Community Road Safety Strategy is the Land Transport Safety Authority’s public statement on its involvement in community road safety.

New Zealand Road Safety Programme Guidelines 2004/2005 (PDF, 123 KB)

New Zealand Road Safety Programme (NZRSP)
The primary annual funding document for road safety activity undertaken by the NZ Police, LTSA and community groups.The NZRSP details specific projects, their objectives and the performance measures against which their delivery will be assessed.

Review of the Safety (Administration) Programme
Report to the National Road Safety Committee containing recommendations for change to the S(A)P process.

Road Safety Atlas (1997)
A companion document to Safety Directions, the Atlas presents in map and tabular form descriptive data for Regional and Territorial Authorities. It also contains safety rankings for each Local Authority based on overall risk and risk by causal factor. This information assists the reader to compare road safety performance within and between Local Government Regions.

Safety Directions
The 1995/96 publication takes the NRSP themes and extends them to a national framework of progrmme areas and foci. It also summarises the country’s road safety performance and contains a ’safety inventory’ of projects for that year. The second edition repeats the national framework and provides a mechanism for analysing road safety in New Zealand, using social costs as a basis.

Safety Directions Working Paper 1: A road Safety Resource Allocation model (PDF, 117 KB)
Description of the LTSA’s model for the optimal allocation of road safety resources.

Safety Directions Working Paper 2: The Safety Directions Development Programme (PDF, 147 KB)
This paper describes the LTSA’s Safety Directions Development Programme.

Safety Directions Working Paper 3: An international comparison of road safety enforcement (PDF, 163 KB)
This paper compares the road safety enforcement regimes in New Zealand and the Australian state of Victoria.

Safety Directions Working Paper 4: Setting road safety targets (PDF, 161 KB)
This paper presents a method for setting road safety targets and estimating the funds needed to achieve them.

Last updated: 1 December 2003