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Road safetysituation and

policies in Finland

PIARC Technical Commitee C.1

The Sixth Meeting in Birmingham

1.11.2010

Jaakko Klang,

Assist: Kati Niukkanen

1.11.2010 / Jaakko Klang / PIARC

Technical Committee C.1 Road safety situation and policies in Finland 2

Jaakko Klang� my job is Traffic safety engineer

� I am responsible for two provinces on road safety issues (690 000 inhabitants)

� my employer is Centre for EconomicDevelopment, Transport and the Environment

� C.1 WG4 – Improvements in Safe working on Roads, my job is to draw up a checklist for road work

� Road technical member of accidentinvestigation comisson

� my father died in a traffic accident when I was 14 years old

� 3 daughters, B-license instruction permit

� hobbys: transporting children to their hobbies, fitness sport and repair old house



FinlandFacts about Finland

� 77% is forest and 10% lakes and inland waterways.

� Built-up land is only 4%

� parliamentary republic

� 5.3 million inhabitants

� 600 automobiles/1000 inhabitants

� under female command



Centres for EconomicDevelopment, Transport and the Environment is responsible for the public roads in Finland

Road network and traffic� Total road network 454 000 km: 78

000 km highways, 26 000 km are streets and 350 000 km private roads

� 700 km are motorways

� pedestrian and bicycle routes 5 000 km

� 65% are paved, rest gravel

� busiest 10% of network carries 65% of traffic

� Road network carries 95% passenger traffic and 65% goods traffic



1. Introduction

The road transport system

must be designed

so that nobody should die

or be seriously injured

on the roads.

2. Road safety as part of transport policy

Transport and Communications comprise three focal areas:

� securing the smooth flow of traffic and the efficient functioning of transport services

� promoting road safety

� reducing environmental impacts.



Killed in road traffic accidents and some safety measures 1970 Killed in road traffic accidents and some safety measures 1970 --

0

200

400

600

800

1000

1200

1400

1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005

Compulsory seat belt installation -front seats (1971)

Source: Statistics Finland & Central Organization for traffic safety in Finland – situation 31.4.2008

Differentiated

speed limits on

main roads

5250 km;

DRL (1973)

Limits for drunk

driving at 0,5

and 1,5 per

mille (1977)

Comp. use of seat

belts in front

seats (1975)

Use of safety

helmet mandatory

for motorcyclists

(1977)

Non-use of seat belts

liable for punishment

Safety helmets mand.

for mopedists (1982)

Mandatory use of

seat belts in back

seats and vans

(1987)

II Parliamentary Committee (1991)

Amended rules for

pedestrians, bicyclists and

mopedists;

Daytime running lights (DRL)

also in urban areas (1997)

Speed limits for winter

time (1991)

Hands-free law (2003)

I Parliamentary Committee (1973)

Compulsory seat belt installation -back seats (1981)

Upper drunk-driving limit

lowered to 1,2 (1994)

General speed

limit 80 km/h

(1974)

General urban

speed limit 50 km/h

and first phase of

winter time speed

limits (1987)

Mandatory use of winter tires (1978)

3. Road safety situation and

targetsThe road safety improvement targets are:

1. Continuous reduction of the number of fatalities

and serious injuries in road traffic.

2. No more than 200 (3,7 death/100 000

inhabitants) road traffic fatalities per year by

2015.

3. No more than 100 (1,7 death/100 000

inhabitants) road traffic fatalities per year by

2025.



3.1 Road safety situation in relation to the targets

2009: 279 = 5,3 d/100 000 i

Target 2010: < 250 = 4,7 d/100 000 i



3.2 Traffic fatalities and injuries



3.3 Finland’s road safety in international comparisons

6,5



3.4 Traffic behaviour

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5,0

10,0

15,0

20,0

25,0

30,0

35,0

40,0

45,0

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20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

180

200

Number of

accidents

Driver's age

Accidents

Risk

Accidents / 100 000

driving licensesAccidentAccident riskrisk / / driver’sdriver’s ageage

4. The operating environment

and its challenges

�Traffic growth trends

�Economic development

�New technology

�Demographic changes



5. Means for improving safety



5.1 Head-on collisions on main roads



5.2 Pedestrian and cyclist accidents in built-up areas



5.3 Accidents involving the influence of drink or drugs



5.4 Accidents involving professional drivers



5.5 Excessive driving speeds

1. Pedestrian or

cyclist

2. Side collision

3. Frontal or hard

object collision

1 2 3Fatality risk

Collision speed



5.6 Alleviating the consequences of traffic accidents



5.7 Other problems and measures



Thank you

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