Countermeasures for unsafe driver speed behaviours. Paper presented at the seminar 'New methods to reduce the road toll', conducted by the VIC Road Trauma Committee, Melbourne, 6 April 1990.

A Task Force convened by the Road Safety Division (VIC ROADS) with representation from road user groups, State agencies and the Police undertook an examination of all aspects of speed management. Emanating from this review has been a Speed Management Strategy Plan for Victoria. In the short term the Strategy seeks to correct speed zones anomolies and to rationalise speed limits. This phase of the Strategy is now nearing completion. For the medium to long term the Strategy aims to modify driver attitude to inappropriate, unsafe speed behaviour through education, publicity and enforcement programs. Having identified excessive speed as one of a number of inappropriate, unsafe driving speed behaviours, it is proposed that new measures need to be introduced targeted to this behaviour. The most significant initiative to be introduced is that of the speed camera program. Other inappropriate driver speed behaviours will be identified and education, publicity and enforcement programs will be developed to address them. This phase of the Speed Management Strategy is scheduled for completion by mid 1991. The development and implementation of new technologies for enforcement purposes is seen as an immediate solution to improving road safety with its role in that area in the future diminishing as positive social change occurs.