This lecture addresses key issues for managing for the ambitious road safety results sought in the UN Decade of Action. It covers broad strategic themes pertinent to the road safety challenges in the United Kingdom as well as to national and international road safety responsibilities in international development. The first section comprises a brief overview of the current global context for road safety management focusing on the escalating crisis of road traffic injury in low and middle-income countries, road safety performance in high-income countries, the response of international organisations to global trends and the global mandate for action. The second section outlines the development of road safety management system frameworks, both for jurisdictions and organisations, and traces the evolution of managing for results into the current phase of ambition. It will discuss road safety management as a production process; the need for a systematic approach; the components of institutional delivery and the importance of governmental and top management leadership in orchestrating the shared responsibility for delivering road safety results. Furthermore, it will discuss what we mean by political will and safety culture; look at innovation based on well-established road safety principles and highlight the importance of measurement given that old but true adage that ‘you manage what you measure’. The final section focuses on pragmatic next steps for achieving ambitious results recommended by international organisations and, based on these, recommendations for national action. (Author/publisher)
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