Working together for more and safer active travel

RoSPA conference, Making our roads safer for vulnerable road users,

Birmingham, 13 February 2019

David Davies, Executive Director, PACTS

Active travel and road safety

PACTS’ position

• PACTS encourages safe, healthy modes – public transport and active travel

• Walking and cycling are healthy and benign – no/little harm to others

• PACTS supports casualty reduction (towards zero) and danger reduction

• Just to be clear, PACTS is not anti-car or anti-motorcycling

Road deaths in UK 2005-17

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See PACTS report Road Safety Since

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Deaths by road user group (GB average 2005-09)

Pedestrians, 613, 22%

Pedal cyclists, 130, 5%

Car ccupants, 1,407, 50%

Motorcyclists, 544, 19%

Other, 122, 4% Total Deaths: 2,816

Deaths by road user group (GB, 2010)

Pedestrians, 405, 22%

Pedal Cyclists, 111, 6%

Car Occupants, 835, 45%

Motorcyclists, 403, 21%

Other, 117, 6% Total Deaths: 1,871

Deaths by road user group (GB, 2017)

Pedestrians, 470, 26%

Pedal cyclists, 101, 6%

Car occupants 787, 44%

Motorcyclists, 349, 19%

Other, 86, 5%Total Deaths: 1,793

Deaths by road user group (GB, 2005-2009, 2010, 2017)

Pedestrians, 470, 26%

Pedal cyclists, 101, 6%

Car occupants 787, 44%

Motorcyclists, 349, 19%

Other, 86, 5%

Total Deaths 2017: 1,793

Pedestrians, 613, 22%

Pedal cyclists, 130, 5%

Car ccupants,

1,407, 50%

Motorcyclists, 544, 19%

Other, 122, 4%

Total Deaths 2005-09: 2,816

Pedestrians, 405, 22%

Pedal Cyclists, 111, 6%

Car Occupants, 835, 45%

Motorcyclists403, 21%

Other, 117, 6%

Total Deaths

2010: 1,871

Conventional presentation –fatality rates for the road user by mode

Alternative presentation –fatality rates for other road users by mode

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Rate of non-users (third parties) killed in collisions with other vehicles* per billion vehicle km,

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Number Non-users Killed in Collision Involving Vehicle Type(not counting 3+ collisions)/Billion KM Travelled

*excluding vehicle collisions involving three or more vehicles, which account for some 15% of reported road deaths.

Source: Reported Road Casualties Great Britain: 2017 Annual Report, Transport Statistics Great Britain 2017, and Domestic Road Freight Statistics Great Britain 2017.

See PACTS evidence to Transport Committee Active Travel inquiry

Alternative presentation –deaths of all road users by mode

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Source: Reported Road Casualties Great Britain: 2017 Annual Report, Transport Statistics Great Britain 2017, and Domestic Road Freight Statistics Great Britain 2017.

Young riders

In 2017, PACTS and ETSC published Reducing Casualties involving young drivers and riders in Europe,* the policy paper for the EC-funded YEARS project.

• Lots of research and good practice available on young driver safety

• Very little research or good practice available on young rider safety

*This report looked at riders off PTWs, not pedal cyclists.

Conclusions

• Time to move road safety forward

• Integrate with wider agendas, including active travel

• Bring together road safety (casualty reduction), Vision Zero and road danger reduction

• An opportunity – not a threat.

For more, see • PACTS evidence to Transport Committee Active Travel inquiry

• PACTS conference: Streets safe for walking

• PACTS report: Achieving Safety, Sustainability and Health Goals in Transport

Thank you

David G DaviesExecutive Director

PACTS78 Buckingham GateWestminsterLondon SW1E 6PE

t 020 7222 7732e david.davies@pacts.org.uk w www.pacts.org.uktwitter @PACTS