Présentation des recommandations du rapport des experts, Recherches et développement par Dr. Marjan HAGENZIEKER (SWOV) lors de la matinée de travail organisée par le CNPAC, vendredi 24 octobre 2014, en collaboration avec les experts néerlandais dans le cadre de la coopération Maroco-Hollandaise sur la sécurité routière.

1. Improving Road Safety in
Morocco
DTRSR-CNPAC,
SWOV, RDW
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2. Why this project?
• Joint DTRSR-CNPAC, SWOV and RDW
initiative
• Moroccan road safety orientation
2014 – 2016
• Governmental supported co-operation
Morocco / the Netherlands
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3. Project goals
• Assist with implementation and execution of
road safety strategy, specifically R&D
– Road safety management
– Enforcement
• Improve road safety in Morocco through the
introduction of safe systems approaches
and thinking
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4. Road safety in Morocco
3,832 deaths
In 2013
(DR, 2013)
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5. Road casualties in the Netherlands
25000
20000
15000
10000
5000
0
3500
3000
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0
1950
1953
1956
1959
1962
1965
1968
1971
1974
1977
1980
1983
1986
1989
1992
1995
1998
2001
2004
2007
2010
2013
fatalities
seriously injured
2013: seriously injured approx. 19,000 (SWOV 2014)
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6. Time periods & paradigms
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1900 – 1920 1920 –1950 1950 – 1970 1960 – 1985
1985/1990 –
now
Crash chance
phenomenon,
bad luck
road devils,
accident
prone
drivers
road user or
vehicle or
road
multicausal
approach
result of
integral road
system
Research what who the cause which causes,
technical
improvements
multi-dimensional,
economic
analysis
Measures on an ad hoc
basis
educate,
punish
choice from
the three E’s
technical
solutions for
vehicle & road
adapt road
system to
road user
Time periods and their characteristic road safety paradigms,
Source: Hagenzieker et al., 2014; adapted from OECD,1997.

7. Safe systems approach
• Design the road system to expect and accommodate human error,
because it is inevitable that road users make mistakes and
sometimes violate the law (and crashes occur)
tailor environment (road, vehicle) to human characteristics
• prepare road user for traffic tasks (training, education)
• beware: not all training is beneficial -> e.g. skid training !
• In a crash, interaction between vehicle – roadway – human body
must be managed so that serious injury likelihood is minimized, if
not eliminated
• Enforcement is no isolated activity but integral part of the system

8. The safe systems model
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Long term vision eg fatalities
Eg alcohol, speeding, seatbelts
Eg km road reconstructed
Standards, rules
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9. Data collection for review
• Literature review
• Amplifying questions and questionnaires
• Personal interviews with high level
stakeholders
• Sourcing additional data and reports
• Analysis and assessment
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10. Milestones/products and timing
Activity Time table
Kick-off December 2013, Rabat
Inception report April 2014
Visit to NL June 2014
Draft final report draft October 2014
Meeting to discuss report 23 October, Rabat
Seminar presentation results 24 October, Rabat
Final report December 2014
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11. R&D and technology transfer
1. Road safety research and development
2. Road safety management
3. Enforcement
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12. Conclusions & recommendations (1)
• No dedicated road safety research programme yet
– i.e. backed by sustainable funding sources and
carried out by dedicated research staff
• The current project is good example to start
capacity building and professional exchange but
needs to be expanded to include all aspects of road
safety.
• The feasibility of establishing a dedicated and
independent road safety research institute needs to
be further explored.
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13. Conclusions & recommendations (2)
• A comprehensive information platform is
advised
– crashes
– vehicles
– drivers
– enforcement
– traffic (e.g. speed, volumes)
• Establish a central unit/agency responsible for
data collection, validation and quality control
• Improve data exchange between e.g.
– DTRSR, CNEH, CNPAC, CNER,
Police and Gendarme
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14. Examples of specific activities
• Develop a comprehensive strategy based on harder
targets, both in terms of crashes and intermediate
outcomes
• Initiate studies for checking the crash registration rates
• Develop systems to link hospital data with crash data to
control for under-registration and validate severity
• Set targets and programmes for addressing high risk
locations
• Develop an integrated quality control system for road
design (audit guidelines; courses etc)
• Driving examns on random route (normal driving)
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20. Visit to NL
• Theory of safe systems
– Coordination; funding; R&D; legislation,
promotion; monitoring and evaluation
– Supporting data
• Safe systems in practice
– Vehicle and driver registration, testing and
licencing
– Road design and operation
– Enforcement
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