by: Getu Segni Tulu, Road Safety Lead Engineer for Road Design & Transportation, Addis Ababa Presented at Transforming Transportation 2017

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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

2. Successful Cases of
Bloomberg Road Safety
Initiative in Addis Ababa
Getu Segni Tulu
getu@bigrs.com

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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)

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

9. 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

10. Recommended staggered raised crossing …
(CTND)

11. 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

12. 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

13. National Associate City Officials (NACTO)
….CTND

14. National Associate City Officials (NACTO)
….CTND

16. Designing and Managing Streets
for Road Safety

17. World Bank and IRAP
• 114 km part of the major
road network
• iRAP protocol
! Vehicle occupants
! Motorcycles
! Pedestrians
! Cycles

18. World Bank and IRAP ……..(CTND)

19. World Bank and IRAP ……..(CTND)

20. Challenges
• needs huge investment
• takes government procurement procedure long time
• Collaboration within agencies

21. THANK YOU