Speed Management

Description

Vehicle speeds play a major role in the likelihood of a crash and in the severity of a crash—for all road users. Speed is the focus of one of the UN’s 12 Global Road Safety Performance Targets. Target 6 aims to halve the proportion of vehicles travelling over the posted speed limit and achieve a reduction in speed- related injuries and fatalities by 2030.

Speed has a central role within iRAP’s models. Speed analysis produced by the models can enable the setting of speed limits and enforcement policy to improve safety and reduce road deaths and serious injuries.

Research

Download 2010 Vehicle Speeds and the iRAP Protocols here

Access Road Safety Toolkit - Safe Speeds here

iRAP is currently reviewing the speed risk factors as part of a broader review of its Star Rating models. More to come.

iRAP is investigating the cost of speed limit reduction and enforcement. More to come.

Projects

The Global Study on the Economic Benefits of Reducing Speeds is a World Bank GRSF grant funded research project on the costs and benefits of speed reduction with the aim of providing an evidence base that can be used to inform decision making on speed management on inter-urban roads in low and middle income countries across the globe.

TRL has developed the Speed Management Assessment Tool (SMAT) as part of a project funded by National Highways. The Speed Management Assessment Tool (SMAT) utilises iRAP road data and Star Ratings to identify where speed limits and traffic speeds are inappropriate for the road risk levels.

TRL’s Speed Management Tool to Deliver Road Casualty Reduction is a World Bank GRSF grant funded project working with stakeholders in Ghana, Nepal and Fiji, to develop the best ways to apply a TRL tool to control traffic speeds and limits effectively, to result in major reductions in fatally and seriously injured road users. The tool uses iRAP and other data with an emphasis on reducing barriers to roll out to multiple low and middle income countries.

Partner initiatives

GRSF Speed Management Hub

Speed management news

KiwiRAP News: New Guides tackle speed and infrastructure risk rating

New Zealand’s new Speed Management Guide and updated Infrastructure Risk Rating Manual aim to tackle the more than 85 per cent of speed limits in the country deemed to be above safe and appropriate limits to achieve Vision Zero. The new Guide and Manual are based on...

TRL Speed Management Tool set to deliver reduced Road Casualty in LMIC Countries

Article republished from TRL. Image credit: Steven Arenas, Pexels iRAP Centre of Excellence TRL has been awarded a prestigious grant by the World Bank’s Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF) to develop ways of implementing its Speed Management Assessment Tool (SMAT) in...

Jamaica draws high level focus on speeding in developing countries

iRAP was proud to join a prestigious panel including Prime Minister of Jamaica, The Most Honourable Andrew Holness, Zoleka Mandela and representatives of the World Health Organisation, FIA Foundation and the National Road Safety Council to promote “Streets for Life”...

Partnerships take #Love30 messaging global

iRAP partnerships with NACTO-GDCI, Vision Zero Sergek and the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety to produce animations and videos for UN Global Road Safety Week saw #Love30 messaging reach over 227,000 people online in 2 weeks. Connecting offices in China,...

NACTO-GDCI and iRAP release animations to demonstrate how low-speeds can protect people

In collaboration with NACTO-GDCI and in celebration of UN Global Road Safety Week, we have developed 3 animations to promote how we can lower speeds around the world to protect people and enable healthy, more sustainable choices such as walking and cycling. The...

EuroRAP News: KTI implements speed management pilot in Hungary

EuroRAP RADAR project partner, KTI Institute for Transport Sciences Non-profit Ltd., has successfully implemented a Pilot project in Hungary in the field of speed management. The aim of the Pilot was to examine the effects of vehicle activated speed warning signs and...

GRSF and iRAP improving road safety through speed management in Accra, Ghana

The World Bank’s Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF) have released a video highlighting how GRSF and iRAP improved road safety through speed management in Accra, Ghana under the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS). With the support of the Bloomberg...

2019 ThaiRAP Speed Variation Analysis report supports the call to reduce speed limits

August 2019: There has recently been a proposal announced to life the speed limits on major roads in Bangkok from 90km/h to 120km/h. The ThaiRAP team is leading calls for the proposal to be reconsidered. iRAP and The World Bank research supported by the FIA Foundation...

For more information

Please contact:

Greg Smith
Global Programme Manager
greg.smith@irap.org

Monica Olyslagers
Global Innovation Manager and Cities Specialist
monica.olyslagers@irap.org