Background

• Charitable Trust established in 2006

• “Amalgamated” with TrackSAFE Australia in 2013 (signed Memorandum of Understanding)

• Sponsored by KiwiRail, NZ Transport Agency, Transdev Auckland

• Peter Reidy (Chairman), Geoff Dangerfield, Robert Herbert AM, Martin Kearney

• Aims to raise awareness about rail safety and educate the public on safe behaviour

StrategyA: Current state

Environment

• Small charitable trust – historically focus on safety awareness, education and funding of alarms, victim support

• Awareness driven on the back of NZ sports hero

• Collaborative effort between KiwiRail, AT, NZTA, Transdev

• Little formalisation of roles of other critical players

Performance

• No funding of crossing alarms, • Lack of analysis of good quality data

StrategyA: Current state

Challenges and opportunities

• Improve research and analysis

• Maintain neutrality

• Broaden stakeholder community

• Strengthen data sharing responsibilities

• Limited funding for level crossing upgrades

• Greater risks in electrified Auckland network

StrategyB: Our wanted future state

Our goal is zero harm across the rail corridor. Achieving this by:

• engaging with stakeholders to pursue actions and activities that will most effectively improve safety

• monitoring progress against these actions

• driving widespread public awareness of safe practice.

We will:

• Reduce road and pedestrian collisions, and reduce harm

• Grow incident reporting and awareness

• Engage rail staff and our stakeholders.

Strategy

C: How we’ll get there

• Widespread public education and communication activities to improve awareness and drive behavioural improvement

• Directing and prioritising our activities based on sound data and research

• Acting as an advocate for ongoing improvement in rail and road network design

• Strengthening the links between the three Es of prevention to ensure the most effective strategies are employed

• Partnering with stakeholders and like-minded organisations.

-Awareness and education activity with

NZTA, AT, Schools-Strategic alignment,

TrackSAFE AU-Rail Safety Week

-Broader stakeholder base (unions, heritage

groups, NZ Police)-Electrification

awareness programme-Worst Crossing

campaign (rail staff engagement)

Education, awareness ----→ Information, education, advocacyRail crossings ---------→ Rail corridor

Evolution of scope→

Planning horizon →

-Pan-stakeholder consolidation of NZ

corridor incident data (NZTA or MoT)

-Strong analytical foundation

-Three planks; information, education,

awareness-Pan-industry near miss

and causal data collection

-Trespass enforcement strategy with NZ Police, Councils,railoperators-Measurement of pan-network intervention

activities

-Data-driven culture-Advocacy of harm

prevention to stakeholders

-Strong Engineering /Enforcement /

Education partnerships- Deep staff

involvement, culture of near miss reporting

-Pan-industry investment prioritisaton-- Material reduction of

incursions, harm incidence

Horizon One (This year)

Horizon Two (Years 1-3)

Horizon Three (Years 3-5)

Priorities

D: What do we need to do to achieve this

• Regional collisions per capita • Collision free Jan-March – first time in more than

20 years

• 2 vehicle collisions at public crossings in 2015 (one hv, one lv), 1 x private crossing collision (hv)

• 4 trespass-related deaths 1 pedestrian level crossing death (near misses at same location)

• 52 vehicle near collisions

• 179 reports of trespassing

2015 Incidents

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Trespass events

Collisions and near misses

• Vehicle collisions: 93 (44 at crossings with passive controls and 49 incidents active controls )

• Collisions (pedestrians): 19 (all at actively controlled crossings)

• Near collisions with vehicles: 572 (72 at level crossings with passive signs, 500 incidents at level crossings with active controls )

• Near collisions with pedestrians: 100 (7 with passive signs, 93 with active controls)

Collisions by Regions

• South Island had 4.5 collisions per 100,000 people (1.25 in the North Island)• Auckland has the most near collisions with heavy vehicles• Canterbury has the highest number of near collisions with heavy vehicles

Worst Crossing Survey

Objectives:

• Identify crossings where public awarenesscampaigns aimed at motorists/pedestrians could benefit

• Engage with LE’s and support their views

• Generate publicity for Rail Safety Week

• Encourage the value of ongoing reporting of near collisions

• Engagement with Police, RCAs etc

Worst Crossing Survey

Rail Safety Week 2014

Raising awareness

Raising awareness

Raising Awareness

Summer safety campaign

Rail Safety Week 2015

• 10 – 16 August 2015

• Theme: “Rail Safety – It’s Everyone’s Responsibility”

• Multi-stakeholder approach, led by KiwiRail – involving NZTA, Police, Transdev Auckland, local authorities

• Nationwide campaign –with a particular focus on rural (passive) level crossings

• “Expect a train” – key message addresses complacency and distraction.

Trespassing images in traditional and social media

Upgrading level crossings

• 6-8 crossings upgraded per year by KiwiRail

• ALCAM risk assessment tool for regional prioritisation

• 20 year data shows randomness of level crossing collisions

• Low cost lx trials in progress