building a five-star future for australian roads mr alan evans president australian automobile...
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Building a Five-Star Future for Australian Roads
Mr Alan EvansPresident
Australian Automobile Association
BTRE Transport Colloquium14 June 2007
Building a Five-Star Future for Australian Roads
• The Role of AAA and Motoring Clubs• The Australian Road Assessment Program (AusRAP)• The North-South Corridor• NRMA Pacific Highway Audit• The Human & Economic Cost of Road Safety• The Solution• What is Needed• The National Road Safety Strategy
The Australian Road Assessment Program(AusRAP)
• Safer Systems – Safer Drivers in Safer Cars on Safer Roads
• AusRAP - Star Rating Australia’s Roads for Safety• Two protocols – Risk Mapping/Star Ratings• 51% of National AusLink Network Rated 3 Stars• 3 Stars is Unacceptable for a National Highway• Corridor is less than 3% of Australia’s Road Network• Carries 15% of Nation’s Road Traffic• Accounts for 14% of Road Deaths in Australia (2000-04)
The North-South Corridor
• North-South Corridor Vital to Australian Economy• 40% of all road freight movements use Hume Highway• Heavily Trafficked Rail Freight Network• Syd-Melb Freight Traffic up 70% over next 20 years• Both Rail and Road Freight growing around 2.6%pa• 5-6,000 truck movements daily along the Hume by 2025• Syd-Melb Rail Transit Times 13hrs – 10hrs for road• 2006 Budget - $800m to Hume Upgrades• Melbourne-Albury Link Rated 4 Stars• Pacific Highway the Focus for Current and Future Efforts
NRMA Audit of Pacific Highway
• Over past 16 years, infrastructure has gone backwards• 680km Hexham to Qld – 442km still to be upgraded• 120 fatalities over past 3 years, 1,722 casualties• B-Doubles up 400% on some sections of Pacific• Trucks switching from New England to Pacific Highway
The Human and Economic Cost
• National Net Road Stock 10% of GDP – 22% in 1960(CEDA Infrastructure Report – 2005)
• Road Investment Provides a 5:1 Benefit Cost Ratio(CEDA Infrastructure Report – 2005)
• Urban Road Congestion to cost $29.7 billion by 2015(AusLink 2004)
• Road Crashes and Trauma Costs $17 billion a year(Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health – 2006)
The SolutionThe Good• Yelgun to Chinderah Freeway Bypass
• Woodend Bypass in Victoria
• Albury-Wodonga Bypass
To Do• McLean to Yelgun
• Nabiac to Taree
• Nagambie to Shepparton Bypass
• Upgraded Hume/Pacific Highways
• Duplication of M2 to F3 link in Sydney
• Upgrade New England Highway
• Western Brisbane Bypass
• Upgrades to Pacific Motorway
The National Road Safety Strategy
• NRSS aim of 40% fatality rate reduction off target
• NRSS target – 1999 9.3 deaths per 100k to 5.6 by 2010
• 2007 road fatality rate 7.8 way off target
• Higher than January 2005 rate of 7.6 deaths per 100k
• Need to bring that figure down