Targeting the speed limits

Engel PrendergastRoadWise Regional Team Leader

16 November 2009

Why

• Road trauma – public health problem

speed limit travel speed travel speed crashes (number and

severity)• But….. travel speed travel time resistance

to speed limit

Local Government

• 72% of state’s road network• No role in setting or enforcing speed limits• Unpopular • Shared responsibility

Leading change

• Changing community demands and expectations• Urban speed limit trials• Town of Vincent – Fitzgerald, Beaufort, Oxford • Safe system – Town of Cambridge

Leading change

Community engagement

Future

• Enhanced speed enforcement management• Speed limit setting • Safe system approach