Mr. Hj Joharry Hj Abd Karim Secretariat Brunei Road Safety Council Ministry of Communications 1 1. BACK GROUND 2. NATIONAL UPDATES ON ROAD SAFETY PROGRAMS 2 BACK GROUND FACTS RATIO FATALITY PER 100,000 POPULATION AND VEHICLES Brunei was ranked at 116 /192 in 2009 , 54 died and index of 13.8. and Singapore ranked 174, 214 died , 4.84,8 No of Population: 400,000 No of Motor Vehicle: 300,000 • WORLD HEALTHRANKING ON ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENT •BRUNEI DARUSSALAM RANKED 163 -192 COUNTRIES •TOTAL POPULATION: 390 056 •NO OF REG VEHICLES: 349 279 50 47 45 40 FATAL 38 35 33 30 29 28 27 EXPECTED 26 25 REDUCTION BY 21 20 20 19 30% 15 YEAR 10 5 0 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 ROAD SAFETY INITIATIVES AND PROGRAMMES 2012-2014 • Brunei is a highly motorised country where about 95% of its vehicle fleet comprised of privately-owned vehicles. • As a small nation with rapid growth on infrastructure and economic development, the movement of people and goods on our road network is getting more rapid and we anticipate chaotic mobility in the very near future if we practice Business As Usual (BAU) in our road accident reduction efforts. • Brunei aspire to the short, medium and long-term development on 5 Pillars that focused on actions-oriented “TOWARDS SAFER MOBILITY AND SAFETY ON THE ROAD”. 5 6 NNEEWW SSTTRRUUCCTTUURREE OOFF BBRRUUNNEEII RROOAADD SSAAFFEETTYY CCOOUUNNCCIILL FOCUS GROUP ENGINEERIN ENVIRONMEN ENFORCEMEN EMERGENC EDUCATION G T T Y CRoSS, RSU, PWD Police M.O.H ITB MOC Members : Members : Members : Members : Members : CRoSS, ITB RSU M.O.E LTD Polis RSU Ad-Hoc RTB Legal FB Police 4 Focus BSP DTO’s RSU LTD Group Ad-Hoc RSU 4 Focus Group Journey: Towards Safer Mobility and Safety on the Road” To Stabilise and then reduce the number of lives lost GLOBAL GOAL GOAL “To reduce and minimize deaths and injuries due to Road Traffic Accidents (RTA) in Brunei. APPROACH Psychological-Technological (Psycho-Techno) & Integrated approach towards Road Traffic Injury (RTI) accident reduction on Brunei Roads 5 ”E” THRUSTS ENGINEERING EDUCATION ENFORCEMENT ENVIRONMENT EMERGENCY 8 ROAD SAFETY INITIATIVES & PROGRAMMES: “MULTI-SECTORAL APPROACH” Defensive Vehicle Safety Standard Demerit Driving New Driving Curriculum Vehicle DRIVERS Video Road Modification (Edu.) VEHICLES Safety Tips Guidelines + (Engineering) Safeguard Vulnerable Safer Mobility Road Users zone School Vicinity MAIN FOCUS MAIN FOCUS Road Safety Programme SUPPORTED BY ROAD EDUCATION ENFORCEMENT (Enforcement) (Education) (Engineering) EMERGENCY NGOs/ PRIVATE RESEARCH SECTORS/ RESPONSE (Environment) COMMUNITIES/ (Emergency) OTHER AGENCIES 9 ROAD SAFETY INITIATIVES AND PROGRAMMES 2011-2020 To ensure that we meet our goal TO REDUCE AND MINIMISE DEATHS AND INJURIES RELATED TO ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS (RTA) ON BRUNEI ROAD, these initiatives and programmes are planned based on ‘5Es’ and under the Five (5) Principles: 1. Enhancing Road Safety Management and formulate evidence- based strategies and action plans. 2. Reducing the drivers’ degree of severity of road crash event by enhancing the level of safety of our road network. 3. Addressing the most emergence major cause of road accident in the country by clamping down the speeding behaviour. 4. Introduction of and imposing the vehicle safety standards and modifications guidelines. 5. Addressing the driver impairment through Assertive Education and public awareness campaigns and safeguarding the vulnerable road users. 10
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