This event is free for ACRS members and $20 for non-members. Learn more about ACRS Membership here.

If you missed the Australasian Road Safety Conference in Hobart last year, here is your chance to hear three of the papers with relevance to local government. The webinar will include the following presenters/topics:

1. Safe System Skills Roadmapper – building capability and capacity; presented by Kenn Beer from Safe System Solutions. The Safe System Skills Roadmapper addresses the critical need for enhanced capability and capacity within the Safe System approach to road safety, a gap identified by government bodies in Australia and New Zealand. This innovative tool generates personalised Continuing Professional Development (CPD) plans tailored to individual roles, leadership levels, learning preferences, and self-assessed Safe System knowledge. Drawing from over 150 capability development activities, it builds the CPD plan from training programs, podcasts, webinars, reading materials, and a variety of other resources based on user-defined preferences.

Check out the tool yourself, and see what your Safe System CPD plan looks like: https://sss-roadmapper.vercel.app/

2. Reducing WA’s rural unzoned speed limit to achieve 2030 target; presented by David Moyses from Main Roads Western Australia. Over 77% of Western Australia 132,000km rural road are unsigned and subject to the unzoned 110km/h speed limit and are of a low standard for safe travel at 110 km/h. Research indicates a strong relationship between speed and the number of crashes, where higher speed is accompanied by a higher number of crashes and a higher degree of severity. This research has been lived out on Western Australian unzoned 110km/h rural roads, where on average, 127 people are killed or seriously injured each year. This project investigates the impact and benefits of reducing the unzoned 110km/h speed limit to 100km/h speed limit. The outcome of this project indicates that a reduction of the unzoned 110km/h speed limit to 100km/h speed limit will save 19 killed and serious injury crashes annually. Such a speed reduction policy will have little impact on travel time and can be implemented at very little cost.

3. Everyone Wins a Prize: Navigating Hobart's Streets; presented by Stuart Baird from City of Hobart. Hobart's transportation management adopts an integrated approach, aiming to balance the diverse needs of road user groups and optimise current resources while planning for the future. To assist managing the City's transport network to achieve outcomes identified in the Transport Strategy, Central Hobart Plan, Hobart City Deal and other key strategic documents, the City of Hobart in conjunction with the Department of State Growth developed an Inner Hobart Transport Network Operations Plan (TNOP). The TNOP guides the whole city in managing competing priorities on its road network, aligning operations with overall strategic objectives.

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