The National Road Safety Strategy 2011–2020 (NRSS) was approved and released by the Australian Transport Council on 20 May 2011. The NRSS represents the commitment of federal, state and territory governments to an agreed set of national road safety goals, objectives and actions. It has the specific target of reducing Australia’s annual number of road deaths and serious injuries by at least 30 per cent by 2020. The NRSS presents a list of ‘first steps’ actions to be undertaken within three years, as well as a range of possible ‘future steps’ initiatives that will be examined as the strategy proceeds. A review of the NRSS in 2014 will include an assessment of progress in implementing each of the first steps actions, and further consideration of other proposed initiatives. The focus of this report is on the three-year program embodied by the list of first steps actions. The main section of the report describes the implementation status of each action item and includes a simple ‘traffic light’ system of progress assessment. The report also provides an update of the key statistical measures of progress outlined in the NRSS. (Author/publisher)
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