ANNUAL MEETING & ASIA PACIFIC REGIONAL ROAD SAFETY SEMINAR (APRSO)
POWERED TWO-WHEELER SAFETY: OVERCOMING CHALLENGES TO IMPLEMENTATIONManila, Wednesday 6 December 2023

MY HISTORYAPRSO – Powered Two-Wheeler Safety: Overcoming Challenges to Implementation, 6 December 2023

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SAFER ROADS FOUNDATIONSee what the Foundation does by visiting our website:www.saferroadsfoundation.org

APRSO – Powered Two-Wheeler Safety: Overcoming Challenges to Implementation, 6 December 2023

SRF GLOBAL CAMPAIGNS TO SAVE THE LIVES OFPTW RIDERS IN DRAMATIC NUMBERS

1. ‘Automatic Headlights On’ (AHO)for powered two-wheelers

2. ‘Anti-lock Braking System’ (ABS)
3. ‘Helmet wearing Enforcement
Cameras’APRSO – Powered Two-Wheeler Safety: Overcoming Challenges to Implementation, 6 December 2023

CAMPAIGN 1‘Automatic Headlights On’ (AHO)for powered two-wheelers

APRSO – Powered Two-Wheeler Safety: Overcoming Challenges to Implementation, 6 December 2023

LACK OF CONSPICUITY IS OFTEN FATALAPRSO – Powered Two-Wheeler Safety: Overcoming Challenges to Implementation, 6 December 2023

MONSOON CONDITIONS – HEAVY RAIN

In the above image, the cyclist with their light illuminated is clearly visible.
APRSO – Powered Two-Wheeler Safety: Overcoming Challenges to Implementation, 6 December 2023

THE ADOPTION OF ‘AUTOMATIC HEADLIGHTS ON’(AHO) FEATURE FOR PTWS IN INDIASRF worked closely with SIAM and the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways in New Delhi to bring about
the early introduction of AHO in India for all Powered-Two-Wheelers (PTWs).
APRSO – Powered Two-Wheeler Safety: Overcoming Challenges to Implementation, 6 December 2023

AHO – a reality in India from1 April 2017!
25 million bikes a year will be
manufactured with this mandatory
featureAPRSO – Powered Two-Wheeler Safety: Overcoming Challenges to Implementation, 6 December 2023

AHO – a reality in Taiwan
from 1 January 2017!

APRSO – Powered Two-Wheeler Safety: Overcoming Challenges to Implementation, 6 December 2023

AHO – a reality inColombia from1 January 2022!
APRSO – Powered Two-Wheeler Safety: Overcoming Challenges to Implementation, 6 December 2023

AHO - THE ‘LOW-HANGING FRUIT’OF ROAD SAFETY

Reduces accidents by 15% at no cost!
APRSO – Powered Two-Wheeler Safety: Overcoming Challenges to Implementation, 6 December 2023

CAMPAIGN 2‘Anti-lock Braking System’ (ABS)APRSO – Powered Two-Wheeler Safety: Overcoming Challenges to Implementation, 6 December 2023

ABS for PTWS - Worldwide
SRF is calling for ABS to be fitted (as a minimum) to the front wheel of every powered
two-wheeler that has a maximum design speed in excess of 50kph. This is vital as inmany parts of Asia motorcycles with 50cc, 70cc, 90cc and 110cc engines are used. To
save lives in significant numbers, it is essential that countries adopt ABS for ALLmachines which have speeds of 50kph or more. Only fitting ABS to models over 125cc
would result in very little meaningful change as they only constitute a relatively small
percentage of the total number of PTWs sold.

APRSO – Powered Two-Wheeler Safety: Overcoming Challenges to Implementation, 6 December 2023

SHORT PROGRAMME‘ANTI-LOCK BRAKING SYSTEM (ABS)FOR MOTORCYCLES - A SIMPLE WAY TO
SAVE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF LIVESEVERY YEAR ACROSS ASIA’APRSO – Powered Two-Wheeler Safety: Overcoming Challenges to Implementation, 6 December 2023

ABS NEEDS TO BE ON ALL PTWS
Some countries, for example Thailand and Malaysia, haveintroduced legislation making ABS mandatory for motorcycles
over 125cc.
This is positive, although the key issue is addressing motorcyclesof 125cc and below, with a design speed of 50kp/h or more (or50cc), as this is the majority of the population of PTWs.
It is critically important that the feature is fitted during
manufacture to the lower powered machines which would havethe greatest impact on reducing fatalities and serious injuries.
APRSO – Powered Two-Wheeler Safety: Overcoming Challenges to Implementation, 6 December 2023

ABS - South East Asia
Policymakers are urged
to seize, without delay,
the opportunity tomandate ABS which
would save 40,000 lives
in the first five years!

The programme is on SRF’s website
APRSO – Powered Two-Wheeler Safety: Overcoming Challenges to Implementation, 6 December 2023

CAMPAIGN 3‘Helmet Wearing Enforcement Cameras’

APRSO – Powered Two-Wheeler Safety: Overcoming Challenges to Implementation, 6 December 2023

Chiangmai Trial - ‘Helmet Wearing
Enforcement Cameras’ providing
overwhelming evidence on their value
Working in collaboration withDr Theerawood Gomutbutra and the Chiangmai
Road Safety Committee
APRSO – Powered Two-Wheeler Safety: Overcoming Challenges to Implementation, 6 December 2023

Chiangmai Trial‘Helmet Wearing Enforcement Cameras’• Approximately 250 fatalities every year in thefive districts• Two-thirds of motorcycle fatalities occur atnight – riders do not wear helmets as nopolice on street
APRSO – Powered Two-Wheeler Safety: Overcoming Challenges to Implementation, 6 December 2023

Chiangmai Trial‘Helmet Wearing Enforcement Cameras’Cameras capturing number plate of rider without helmet.
APRSO – Powered Two-Wheeler Safety: Overcoming Challenges to Implementation, 6 December 2023

Chiangmai Trial‘Helmet Wearing Enforcement Cameras’

In January 2022, at 5 main intersections, wearing helmets in the daytime was over 90%.
APRSO – Powered Two-Wheeler Safety: Overcoming Challenges to Implementation, 6 December 2023

Chiangmai Trial‘Helmet Wearing Enforcement Cameras’Night-time ‘before’ and ‘after’ showing dramatic increase in helmet wearing.
APRSO – Powered Two-Wheeler Safety: Overcoming Challenges to Implementation, 6 December 2023

Chiangmai Trial‘Helmet Wearing Enforcement Cameras’➢ In first 6 months, 62lives saved➢ In second 6 months,

only 30 lives saved
due to withdrawal offunding for police
enforcement
APRSO – Powered Two-Wheeler Safety: Overcoming Challenges to Implementation, 6 December 2023

SHORT VIDEO OF MAJOR JUNCTION IN
CHIANGMAI WITH RIDERS WEARINGHELMETSAPRSO – Powered Two-Wheeler Safety: Overcoming Challenges to Implementation, 6 December 2023

Chiangmai Trial‘Helmet Wearing Enforcement Cameras’
The evidence from the Chiangmai trial isoverwhelming. If the cameras were introduced acrossThailand they would save:

3,000 LIVES EVERY YEAR INTHE KINGDOMAPRSO – Powered Two-Wheeler Safety: Overcoming Challenges to Implementation, 6 December 2023

ANNUAL MEETING & ASIA PACIFIC REGIONAL ROAD SAFETY SEMINAR (APRSO)
POWERED TWO-WHEELER SAFETY: OVERCOMING CHALLENGES TO IMPLEMENTATION
Wednesday 6 December 2023