National Road Safety Council

A mandated government agency that wasresponsible for Road Safety matters in PNG.
 Advise government on road safety matters Develop road safety strategies, policies andprovide leadership on Road Safety matters.
 Foster, promote and coordinate Road Safety
Activities in PNG.

Road Traffic Authority (RTA)➢➢

In recent years the government enacted
RTA Act merging several legislations andone of them is NRSC Act . That is how thefunctions of NRSC were inherited by RTA.
Currently, the functions are being
performed by RTA where Road Safety is aUnit of its own within RTA Structure.

Crash Statistics

Road Safety Situation in PNG
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About 300-500 people die each year in PNG alone as recorded by
Traffic Police and Road Traffic Authority (RTA) Accident Data Base
The trend of Road Accident is always increasing each year.
The most common Age range is between 15-49 years, which is thecream of the population, the very active people are dying fromRoad Accident.
The major cause is drinking and driving coupling up with speeding.
The larger portion of victims is Pedestrians, all ages.
Children make up the large percentage of the people who die in
the road crashes.
The full Report is in the website and here is the link
https://www.rta.gov.pg/publications/rs-data-reports/

Current Trend – Road Safety

Mandated Responsibilities
 Enforcement – on going activity.
➢ Area of need,

1. Enforcing Speed laws, using speed detecting equipment suchas speed guns,

2. Drinking & Driving, testing equipment such as Breathalyzers andLaboratory testing equipment.

 Road Safety Education & Awareness inSchools and Public places – on goingactivity.

Road Safety Projects
1. Development of Road Safety
Teachers Resource Book.
➢ Having Realised that this one off annual visits
and talks by RTA only of real value and benefit
if they are part of ongoing work in the school
through a structured program of road safety
education, this Teachers Resource Book wasdeveloped.
➢ The teachers in Primary Schools will use thisbook to teach road safety in schools
throughout the country.
➢ Its ultimate aim is to try and change
behaviour of road users.

➢ Status of the book – at the point of printing,
distribution and Training teachers forimplementation.

➢ Current Partner in developing this book is FIA
Foundations through Unicef PNG.

2. Star Rating for Schools with iRAP
➢ Necessary information of critical locations of12 schools in the capital city of PNG had
been provided to SR4S web-based platform
for iRAP’s Review.

➢ iRAP Review of critical locations – done
➢ Documented, ready for implementation ofthe interventions.
➢ We want to take this as a trial, if it works, wewant to do the same for all the schools in
towns & cities in PNG.

Area of Investment-Collaboration Required Capacity Building – training the local roadsafety officers and road safety engineers.

 2019-2020, a Road Safety Consultant wasengaged by RTA through ADB funding. Oneof the ToR was to develop a Road Safety
Strategy (RSS). The consultant did the draftwith 5 years Action Plans, mostly consultation
work, with other stakeholders, and it stresses
up to 20 Years Action Plans, draft available.

Area of Collaboration and funding
1.A Road Safety Consultant.
2. Road Safety Teachers Resource Book. (Printing Distribution, &Training of Teachers for implementation (teaching)
3. Development of Road Transport Management System (ICT) for vehicle Registration &Driver Licensing . This will also compliment the driver testing both theory and practical. It
will roll it out to all provinces.