The Land Transport Safety Authority (LTSA) sought an independent review of the Supplementary Road Safety Package during its first two years (1995/96 and 1996/97). The first element of the review is an assessment of the effectiveness of the Package in achieving its targeted outcomes. The second element is a performance review of the implementation of the Package as this relates to the outcomes achieved. The LTSA commissioned two Victorian-based farms, Research and Safety Services Pty. Ltd. and Camcomp Partners Pty. Ltd., to carry out the review, jointly. In October 1994, the LTSA sought extensive advice from the Monash University Accident Research Centre regarding factors responsible for Victoria's dramatic reductions in road trauma since 1989, the transportability of the Victorian approach to New Zealand, and the additional funding required to implement such a programma (Cameron, Vulcan, Haworth and Kent 1994). In early 1996, LTSA commissioned two Victorian-based firms, Research and Safety Services, and Camcomp Partners, to jointly carry out a management review of the road safety advertising component of the Package (Vulcan and Cameron 1996). Later in 1996, LTSA commissioned the same consultancy team to undertake a review of the evaluation of the Package and to comment on its initial outcomes and implementation (Cameron and Vulcan 1996). This review of the SRSP will hereafter be referred to as "the first review". The scope of this evaluation review ("the second review") covered the following issues: 1. Review of the evaluation processes established within LTSA and other New Zealand agencies for assessing the effects of the SRSP (this updates the processes documented in the first review); 2. Assessment of the effectiveness of the SRSP during its first two years (1995/96 and 1996/97) and, where possible, to the end of 1997; and 3. performance review of the implementation of the SRSP in relation to its approved components and to its outcomes assessed in 2. above. (A)
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