GIFTS2016

November 19, 2016 @ U Thant International Conference Hall

Symposium
Transportation Culture and Safety: A new stage toward
Vision Zero

Regional Decisions and Vision ZeroHirokazu Akahane
1The Tenth Five-Year Fundamental Plan for Traffic Safety(Part 1: Land Transportation Safety)
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Toward a society without road traffic accidents Japanese Vision Zero
Effective measures
Goals
yet to be established

1)Number of deaths occurring within 24 hours: 2,500 or fewer by 20202)Number of casualties: 500,000 or fewer by 2020
Age groups
Transportation modes
3. Countermeasures

Priority targets: "the elderly and children", "pedestrians andbicycles" and "community roads"
SpaceEight pillars
1) Improving road traffic environment2) Raising awareness of traffic safety
3) Ensuring safe driving•4) Ensuring safety of vehicles
5) Maintaining road traffic order•
6) Enhancing rescue and first aid activities
7) Enhancing and promoting support for victims
8) Enhancing research & development andinvestigative research

Reflecting the basicrole of each ministry
Being ‘fundamental’,
these are not updated
every 5 years
2Population and percentage of driver's license holders
by gender and age group (As of March 31, 2014)

Male population by age

Percentage of malelicense holders by age

Female population by age
Percentage of female
license holders by age

Seniorcitizens

Age groups (by five-yearage band)

Source: White Paper on Traffic Safety in Japan (2015)

Many
Rapid increase in
the number offemale license
holders inparticular3

Long-term prediction about road fatalities and goal setting• Long-term prediction
If the current pace of shift in population, traffic situation and safety measurescontinues,
Explanatory
factorPredicted
fatalities in 2020
[annual number]Comment

Kilometers
traveled bycar

2,900 - 3,100－Population byage group
Accident rate
for eachgeneration

2,500 - 3,000

High reliability,
based on thedemographiccomposition• Appropriately responding to theaging population (-10% per year)→ tough goal setting

3,400 - 3,600

Higher reliability,
explicitly reflecting
the impact of theaging population• Taking no action against theimpact of the aging population

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The Tenth Five-Year Fundamental Plan for Traffic Safety(Part 1: Land Transportation Safety)

1. Countermeasures
52 elementary and junior high school students died, 12 on theway to/from school (2013) → Medium-term goal of "zero" !

Priority targets: "the elderly and children", "pedestrians andbicycles" and "community roads"
Characteristics of safety measures for community roads• Area-wide measures are efficient (the method is different from thatused for intersections on main roads)• Residents’ interests are complex and often require accommodation• Drivers’ understanding and cooperation is also necessary in reducing
through traffic→ Building consensus about the measures through the participationof citizens (both data and skills are important)Accident data now contains information about the latitude andlongitude (since 2012).
Shortage of community roads officers or safety measures experts atthe municipal level
5Case study of area-wide measures for community roads in Kamagaya, Chiba
Speed controlling measures in Higashihatsutomi district
Accidents involving casualties before and after the implementationof the measures

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Number ofaccidents

Intersections withcoloredpavement
交差点カラー舗装
Raised
交差点intersections
ハンプ

Decreased by 56.0%3025201531.8
Raised intersections

1014.050Annual average年平均（1995- 1999）[10 locations]

2005
平成17年

* Source) Kamagaya Police Station (1995 to 1999)
Chiba Prefectural Police Headquarters’ website (2005)

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To achieve the goal of “2,500 or fewer deaths occurring within 24
hours by 2020"

1. Accumulating established safety measures
2. Introducing new measures to the areas that are yet to beestablished1) Promoting use of advanced technology• Internet, mobile communication, GIS and probe (big) data

2) Promoting elaborate measures considering the actualroad conditions, etc.
• Scientific analysis of traffic accidents data• Safety measures, traffic planning and management, training andplacement of town planning professionals

3) Traffic safety measures involving local communities• Framework for participation of citizens based on the 1) and 2)
above → consensus building(← The Tenth Five-Year Fundamental Plan for Traffic Safety (Part 1: Land
Transportation Safety) 7

An intersection with a distance of 90 meters between its stop lines (Kagawa)
Kagawa is ranked the second worst prefecture in Japan for the number of fatalities per
100,000 population at 5.43 (10/23)(the worst in 2012, the 5th worst in 2013, the 9th worst in 2014 and the 7th worst in 2015)8

Traffic accident occurrence (2011 - 2014)• The distance between the two stop lines of an intersection in Kagawa Prefecture is more varied
than in other prefectures.
• The increase in the number of accidents due to the distance between the stop lines isstatistically significant.
← → The 38th worst for the highway accident rate at 5.2 per 100 million vehicle kilometers(national average: 11.5)(Compiled from Traffic Accident Data 2012 and Road Traffic Census FY 2010 by Institute for Traffic Accident Research and Data Analysis)

9Source) Kagawa Prefectural Police Traffic Accidents Information System

Final recommendations to Kagawa Prefecture
about its traffic safety measures
International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences (IATSS) Research Project:“Kagawa Research - Analysis of Accident Factors and Recommendations on Countermeasures“
October 19, 2016

Recommendation 1
Road users, residents, and stakeholders and users of various roadsidefacilities should be encouraged to have a better understanding of the pros
and cons of traffic safety measures proposed. The Citizens of Kagawa
Prefecture should find a new balance between traffic safety levels andconvenience and then reach a consensus about the measures to beimplemented. Toward this end, the prefectural traffic safety authorities
should even more proactively disclose and even more concisely explain
the traffic accidents data, its analysis results and the results of evaluating
the effects of the traffic safety measures to the citizens.

Recommendations 2 to 710

#1601A “International Comparative Study on Technologies,
Systems and Culture related to Road Traffic Safety” (2016-19)–––Major contents1)
Preliminary literature review before the visits below
2)
Interviews, workshops, video surveys, questionnaire survey on
traffic safety culture in various countries (approx. 2 regions/year)3)4)Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Hideki NAKAMURA (Nagoya University)
Interdisciplinary project team consisting of 15 members incl.
international cooperative members
to understand the background behind the regional difference in theirtraffic safety target settings objectively and systematically••

Qatar, UAE (completed Sept. 2016), the Philippines (scheduled Dec. 2016)
Other countries (2017-)

International comparison analysis
Summary of some issues on the current road safety measures andsuggestions

Expected outcome––––Objectively understand the positioning of road safety target setting,through the analysis and interpretation of the fact of road traffic andsafety situation in each country based on its cultural, historical andreligious background, technical standard and various relatedsystems,
Present some issues in the current technologies and systems basedon the statistical analysis and field surveys,
Share the prerequisite for the future international discussion on roadsafety measures through the international comparison of the analysismentioned above, andEnhance an international human network, and contribute towards
enriching international activities of the IATSS in the near future.
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