VIDEO - DELINEATION
ROAD SAFETY INSIGHTS
OUR PEOPLE
THE CHALLENGE IN NUMBERS
WHAT IS THE SAFE SYSTEM?
WHAT IS VISION ZERO?
WHAT IS ROAD SAFETY?
CONTENTS
Achieving zero deaths on Aotearoa New Zealand's roads demands a new way of thinking about how we move.
SAFETY
ROAD
Using Safe System and Vision Zero principles, we work to deliver safety outcomes for all those travelling on our roads. Key to this is close collaboration with WSP’s Research and Innovation team of safety and behavioural science specialists to understand the human behaviour of road safety.
Ensuring that infrastructure is safe, accessible, and designed for all road users is vital to eliminate our road toll. WSP has the largest team of road safety specialists in Aotearoa New Zealand. We work on a wide range of projects, ranging in size from National Safety Programmes to localised pedestrian improvements.
WSP AND ROAD SAFETY
Vision Zero
The Four Pillars of Vision Zero
Zero is the only acceptable number of deaths.
Humans fail, but design shouldn’t. System designers are responsible for the design, operation and use of the road transport system and the level of safety within the entire system.
Road users are responsible for following the rules established by the designers. If they do not follow the rules because of a lack of knowledge, acceptance or ability, the system designers must make further adaptations to ensure safety.
Collaboration between government agencies, public services, private industries and other road managers, is key to successful implementation of Vision Zero.
The advancement of Vision Zero must rely on evidence-based science.
WHAT IS VISION ZERO?
Vision Zero is a philosophy that refuses to accept that fatalities and serious injuries are inevitable consequences of mobility on the world’s roads. Vision Zero aims to create traffic systems worldwide where no human being is killed or seriously injured.
WHAT IS THE SAFE SYSTEM?
Within this approach, speed limits are a complementary intervention to creating safer roads, roadsides and vehicles that together work to accommodate driver error.
All parts of the system need to be strengthened—roads, roadsides, speed restrictions and vehicles—so that if one part of the system fails, other parts will still protect any person who is involved in a crash.
The Safe System approach to road safety makes sure that in a crash, impact energy remains below the threshold likely to result in death or serious injury.
It goes beyond establishing speed limits to managing interactions between the environment, infrastructure and physical vulnerability.
cars registered on New Zealand’s roads in March 2021
$5.5 million
320
deaths on
New Zealand’s roads in 2020
$4.5 billion
2020 estimated social cost of fatal and injury crashes in 2019
KEY FACTS
Road Safety: The challenge in numbers
CHERIE MASON
Technical Principal
GRANT GORDON
Technical Principal
ROBERT SWEARS
Principal Road Safety /
Transport Engineer
SAM PASLEY
Service Line Leader Road Safety
FERGUS TATE
Technical Director Transport
MIKE MEISTER
Technical Director Transport
OUR PEOPLE
Designing out Flaws within Road Transportation Systems
Sharing the road
If it's not tourists, who is accountable for the NZ road toll?
ROAD SAFETY INSIGHTS
Achieving zero deaths on Aotearoa New Zealand's roads demands a new way
of thinking about how
we move.
ROAD
SAFETY
Achieving zero deaths on Aotearoa New Zealand's roads demands a new way
of thinking about how
we move.
VIDEO DELINEATION
WHAT IS ROAD SAFETY?
WHAT IS VISION ZERO?
WHAT IS THE SAFE SYSTEM?
KEY FACTS
OUR PEOPLE
ROAD SAFETY INSIGHTS
DELINEATION
MARKINGS
AND SIGNS
Ensuring that infrastructure is safe, accessible, and designed for all road users is vital to eliminate our road toll. WSP has the largest team of road safety specialists in Aotearoa New Zealand. We work on a wide range of projects, ranging in size from National Safety Programmes to localised pedestrian improvements.
Using Safe System and Vision Zero principles, we work to deliver safety outcomes for all those travelling on our roads. Key to this is close collaboration with WSP’s Research and Innovation team of safety and behavioural science specialists to understand the human behaviour of road safety.
WSP AND ROAD SAFETY
Vision Zero
Vision Zero is a philosophy that refuses to accept that fatalities and serious injuries are inevitable consequences of mobility on the world’s roads. Vision Zero aims to create traffic systems worldwide where no human being is killed or seriously injured.
The Four Pillars of Vision Zero
Zero is the only acceptable number of deaths.
Humans fail, but design shouldn’t. System designers are responsible for the design, operation and use of the road transport system and the level of safety within the entire system.
Road users are responsible for following the rules established by the designers. If they do not follow the rules because of a lack of knowledge, acceptance or ability, the system designers must make further adaptations to ensure safety.
Collaboration between government agencies, public services, private industries and other road managers, is key to successful implementation of Vision Zero.
The advancement of Vision Zero must rely on evidence-based science.
WHAT IS
VISION ZERO?
The Safe System approach to road safety makes sure that in a crash, impact energy remains below the threshold likely to result in death or serious injury.
It goes beyond establishing speed limits to managing interactions between the environment, infrastructure and physical vulnerability.
Within this approach, speed limits are a complementary intervention to creating safer roads, roadsides and vehicles that together work to accommodate driver error.
All parts of the system need to be strengthened—roads, roadsides, speed restrictions and vehicles—so that if one part of the system fails, other parts will still protect any person who is involved in a crash.
WHAT IS THE SAFE SYSTEM?
Road Safety: The challenge in numbers
320
deaths on New Zealand’s roads in 2020
Road Safety: The Challenge in numbers
KEY FACTS
billion
2020 estimated social cost of fatal and injury crashes in 2019
$4.5
million
$5.5
cars registered on New Zealand’s
roads in March 2021
OUR PEOPLE
MIKE MEISTER
Technical Director Transport
FERGUS TATE
Technical Director Transport
SAM PASLEY
Service Line Leader Road Safety
CHERIE MASON
Technical Principal
GRANT GORDON
Technical Principal
ROBERT SWEARS
Principal Road Safety /
Transport Engineer
Designing out Flaws within Road Transportation Systems
Sharing the road
If it's not tourists, who is accountable for the NZ road toll?
ROAD SAFETY INSIGHTS