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Successful Cases of Bloomberg Road Safety Initiative in Addis Ababa Getu Segni Tulu, Road Safety Lead Engineer for Road Design & Transportation, Addis Ababa Presented at Transforming Transportation 2017

Successful Cases of Bloomberg Road Safety Initiative in Addis Ababa

Getu Segni Tulu getu@bigrs.com

Outline • Introduction

• Success stories in Bloomberg Road Safety Initiative

! With World Resources Institute (WRI)

! With National Associate City Officials (NACTO)

! With World Bank and IRAP

• Challenges

Addis Ababa • Ethiopia-

! Population _102,374,044 (CiA Factbook, 2016)

! Over 80% of the population live in rural areas (CiA Factbook, 2016)

! Capital city _Addis Ababa _estimated over 4 million people • Modal shares_ Addis Ababa (Nacto, 2016)

!  70 % walking

! 26% transit (minibus, bus, LRT, etc)

! 4% private cars

! Registered 442 road users’ fatalities last year

! 80-90% road traffic fatalities are pedestrians

World Resources Institute (WRI) • BOLE ROAD SAFETY INSPECTIONS

!  4.5 KILO Meters covers from Mesqual Square to Bole Airport

! 8 lane roads with a meter median

! speed limit 60Km/hr

!  high volumes of pedestrian traffic

! 10 traffic fatalities in the last available year ( App. 2.5 fatalities/Km/

year

! Pedestrian fatalities and injuries

• 8 Key Intersections

World Resources Institute (WRI) • Identified problem

! Function of Road

! The design of the road (the operating speed is high)

! Pedestrian Crossing (pedestrians have to cross 4 lanes in each

direction (app. 28m.)

! Insufficient waiting area (at refuge)

! Conflict between the pedestrian and vehicles

! Illegal parking

Identified Problem ………………………… (CTND)

! Minibuses are stopping at pedestrian crossing (obstacle,

poor sight condition for pedestrians)

! Lack of signal controls

! U-Turns

! Maintenance (fences, markings, signs... etc)

! Road Lighting Condition (poor)

World Resources Institute (WRI)……… (CTND)

World Resources Institute (WRI)……… (CTND) • Recommendations

• To keep the speed limit low

• Provision of raised mid-block crossings

• speed humps preceding the zebra crossing

• narrow vehicle travel lanes to 3 meters

• expand the central median refuge for pedestrians

• staggered pedestrian median crossing

Recommended staggered raised crossing … (CTND)

World Resources Institute (WRI)……… (CTND) • Major problem _at the intersections inspected

! pedestrian safety

!  too large, including turning radii for vehicles,

!  roundabouts are missing proper deflection.

• Key recommendations

•  reducing crossing distance of pedestrians

•  reducing speeds of approaching vehicles

•  proper vehicle deflection and modern roundabout design principles

National Associate City Officials (NACTO) • LeGhar intersection transformation

!  Shorter crossing distances reducing exposure to risk

! Tighter corner radii to calm the speed of turning vehicles

! Limiting slip lanes to thru and left turn traffic (no priority to right turn

traffic)

! Reducing shared space on the intersection

! Achieving lane balance

! Adding public space for safety and people activities

National Associate City Officials (NACTO)….CTND

National Associate City Officials (NACTO)….CTND

Designing and Managing Streets for Road Safety

World Bank and IRAP

• 114 km part of the major

road network

•  iRAP protocol ! Vehicle occupants

! Motorcycles

! Pedestrians

! Cycles

World Bank and IRAP ……..(CTND)

World Bank and IRAP ……..(CTND)

Challenges

• needs huge investment

•  takes government procurement procedure long time

• Collaboration within agencies

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