Department of Rural RoadsMinistry of Transport, Thailand

Thailand’s Experience and Insights Road Safety

Dr. Chakree Bamrungwong, Director of Office of Road Safety Audit,

Department of Rural Roads, Ministry of Transport of Thailand

2019 June 14

Thailand Road Network

Department of

Highway (DOH)

51,816 km.

Department of Rural

Roads (DRR)

47,303 Km.

Local Governments

597,570 Km.

Road Networks

696,689 Km.

Department of Rural RoadsMinistry of Transport, Thailand

WHO’s Global Road Safety Performance Targets

PILLAR 1 : Road safety management

PILLAR 2 : Safer roads and mobility

PILLAR 3 : Safe vehicles

PILLAR 4 : Safe road users

PILLAR 5 : Post-crash response

Target 3: By 2030,

all new roads

achieve technical

standards for all

road users that

take into account

road safety, or

meet a three star

rating or better.

Target 4: By 2030,

more than 75% of

travel on existing

roads is on roads

that meet

technical

standards for all

road users that

take into account

road safety.

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Road Safety Measures

Risk spots

2. PREVENTIVE ACTION

Accident spots

Accident occur

1. CORRECTIVE ACTION

Accident

Investigation (RAI)

Safety

Improvement

Road Safety

Audit (RSA)

Safety

Improvement

Identify risk spots

Evaluation Evaluation

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ARMS (Accident Report Management System)1. Black spots are road locations

that have a crash record of 3 or

more times in the past 3 years.

2. Hot spots 2 are road locations

that have a crash record of 2 times

in the past 3 years.

3. Hot spots 1 are road locations

that have a single crash in the past

3 years.

Accident data

on rural roads

Collect data from

accident sites

Collect data from officers

(Local police department)

ARMS : Accident Report

Management System

TRAMS : Transportation Route Accident

Management Systems

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1. Corrective Action

Ministry of Transport

Department of Rural RoadsMinistry of Transport, Thailand

1. Corrective ActionARMS (Accident Report Management System)

Department of Rural Roads

Report FormSystem Interface : Accidents Map

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2. Preventive ActionSTANDARD : International Road Assessment Programme (iRAP)

iRAP Star Ratings are an objective measure of the likelihood of a road crash occurring and its severity. For : cars, motorcycles, bicycles and pedestrians.

Meeting with Rob Mclnerney,

Chief Executive Officer- iRAP

at iRAP office Brisbane, Australia.

High RiskRisk Spots

Low Risk

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2. Preventive ActionTOOL : Road Safety Audit System (RSAS)

73 Calculated Factors

following iRAP

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2. Preventive ActionTOOL : Road Safety Audit System (RSAS)

1.Route name

2. Location

on the road3.STAR RATING

SCORE

PC / MC4. Risk

of accident

in different

collision type

showed by

risk score

5.Risk score of

this route in

every 100

meter section

showed by

graph

Rural Road

Management

System

Module

Road Safety

Audit System

(RSAS)

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Approval for advancing RSAS to iRAP Light Star Rating Model

Road Safety Measures

Risk spots

2. PREVENTIVE ACTION

Accident spots

Accident occur

1. CORRECTIVE ACTION

Accident

Investigation (RAI)

Safety

Improvement

Road Safety

Audit (RSA)

Safety

Improvement

Identify risk spots

Evaluation Evaluation

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Road safety improvement procedures

Repeat every quarter of the year

- Accident spots

Report- Risk spots

Identification

- Road safety audit

on Desktop

- Accident Investigation

on Desktop

- Road safety audit on site

by regional offices

- On site Investigation

by regional offices- Risk spots

safety improvement

- Accident spots

safety improvement

- Follow up and

assess result risk spots

- Follow up and assess

result accident spots

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Step 1 : Accident spots Report and Risk spots identification

Accident spots

report

Risk spots

identification

by ARMS

(Accident Report

Management System)

by RSAS

(Road Safety Audit

System)

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Step 2 : Accident investigation/ Road safety audit on Desktop

Rural Road Network Management System (RM)

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Road Safety Audit System Module (RSAS)

Bright color icon

(recommendation)

Grey color icon

(existing assets)

Road safety

improvement

recommendation

in short term

recommendation

Existing

route

Road Safety improvement recommendation

in long term

(Geometry redesign)

Step 2 : Accident investigation/ Road safety audit on Desktop

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Accident investigation on site

Step 3 : Accident investigation /Road safety audit on site by regional offices

Road safety audit on site

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Road Safety Audit Manuals1 2

3 4

1. Road safety principle manual

2. RSA and Improvement manual for design stage

3. RSA and Improvement manual for

construction stage

4. RSA and improvement manual for

existing roads

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Road Safety authority capacity building

Participate in the Advanced Road Safety

Improvement for Senior Auditor workshop

Inspector

Auditor

Senior Auditor

Participate in the Intermediate Road Safety

Improvement for Auditor workshop

Conduct road safety audit

40 cases ,or

Conduct road safety audit

20 cases within 2 years

Conduct complicated road safety

audit 30 cases ,or

Conduct complicated road safety

audit 15 cases within 2 years

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Department Staffs Development plan

Inspector Auditor Senior Auditor

Present 513 35 3

Target 1,586(by 2021)

159(by 2021)

25Head office (7 people)

Regional (18 people )

(by 2022)

CollaborationCollaborate with

Engineering Institute

of Thailand

Collaborate with

International organizations

e.g. Vicroads

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Step 4 : Road safety improvement

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Step 5 : Follow up and assess result of safety improvement

RESULT (based on 919 spots of road safety improvement)

Year Quarter

No.

improved

spots

No. AccidentsChange

rate

No. FatalitiesChange

rateBefore After Before After

2018

Q1 100 36 23 -36% 2 3 50%

Q2 132 36 3 -92% 3 0 -100%

Q3 123 45 5 -89% 10 2 -80%

Q4 108 50 3 -94% 6 2 -67%

2019Q1 228 55 2 -96% 5 1 -80%

Q2 228 31 0 -100% 8 0 -100%

Total 919 253 36 -86% 34 8 -76%

No.Accidents

decreased

86%

No.Fatalities

decreased

76%

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Safety Roadmap

2018

2022

2037Fatalities rate 2.29

per 100,000 population

Fatalities rate 2.29per 100,000 population

(Source: WHO : GLOBAL STATUS REPORT ON ROAD SAFETY 2018, page 245)

Short-term (Urgent) Long-term

WHO road traffic fatalities data for ThailandFatalities rate

3.27

per 100,000

population

Department of

Rural Roads = 10 %

Decreased by 30 %

Strategy : Self explaining roads Strategy : Forgiving roads

Fundamental safety improvement

measures e.g. Signing marking

Additional safety improvement measures

e.g. Color pavement, delineators

Clear zone improvement e.g. Removing

hazardous objects, installing safety barriers

Road geometry improvement