The National Road Safety Strategy 2011—2020 (NRSS) was approved and released by the former 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. Following a comprehensive review of progress in 2014, a new Action Plan for the three years from 2015 to 2017 was developed cooperatively by Commonwealth, state and territory transport agencies, and was endorsed by the Transport and Infrastructure Council in November 2014. The National Road Safety Action Plan 2015-2017 (the Action Plan) details a range of priority national actions to be taken by governments over the three years from 2015 to 2017. This report provides: 1. an assessment of overall progress towards the high-level Directions laid out in the NRSS, for each of the four cornerstone areas: Safe Roads, Safe Speeds, Safe Vehicles and Safe People 2. an update of the key statistical measures of progress outlined in the NRSS 3. a comprehensive report on the nineteen priority actions detailed in the Action Plan, including simple ‘traffic light’ indicators of progress. Given Australia’s federal system of government, responsibilities for implementing the NRSS are distributed across nine jurisdictions and align with the established roles of each area of government: * The Australian Government has responsibility for allocating agreed infrastructure resources to the national highway and local road networks, and for regulating safety standards for new vehicles. * State and territory governments have primary responsibility for funding, planning, designing and operating the road network, managing vehicle registration and driver licensing systems, and enforcing road user behaviour. Transport agencies in each jurisdiction take the lead role in implementing and facilitating the Directions and specific actions set out in the NRSS and Action Plan. There are a number of other key bodies that provide support in relevant areas, including Austroads, the National Transport Commission (NTC), the Australia New Zealand Policing Advisory Agency (ANZPAA) and the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR). National coordination arrangements for the NRSS are managed though two crossjurisdictional committees: * The Austroads Safety Task Force (STF), comprised of senior road safety officials from Australian Government, state, territory and New Zealand transport agencies, the NTC, and ANZPAA. * The Strategic Vehicle Safety and Environment Group (SVSEG), comprised of representatives from Australian Government, state, territory and New Zealand transport agencies, the NTC, the NHVR, and from automotive industry and road user bodies. (Author/publisher)
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