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Auckland City Centre Gateways – Crash Reduction
Posted speeds were lowered to 30-40km/h in the Auckland City Centre in 2020. Accordingly, gateway speed thresholds designed by TES were installed around the city centre. In 2025, reported Death and Serious Injury (DSI) crashes were analysed in the city centre, approximately 4.5 years ‘before’ and ‘after’ the…
New Roundabouts - Huge Crash Savings
Two new roundabouts designed by TES and commissioned by Auckland Transport have achieved substantial crash savings, post-construction. Roundabouts that are well designed can achieve substantial long-term crash savings! Also, the Church / Victoria roundabout was the subject of a peer...
Zero Road Deaths Can Be Achieved
A road death toll is not inevitable. More than 500 cities worldwide with populations greater than 50,000 have achieved zero road deaths multiple times. Common actions to achieve this have included: Redirecting Road Funding - Walking and cycling infrastructure generally gets low priority for funding...
Crash Trend in NZ During Covid 19
Crash data in NZ shows that from 2019 to 2020, the total number of reported crashes in NZ decreased by around 28%. This is a substantial decrease, and far greater than the equivalent preceding time period (2018/2019), which had a 4% decrease. Also, crash reductions for cyclists (20%) and pedestrians (23%) are...
Pedestrian Casualties Poorer Minority Groups
According to a new study based on 10 years of pedestrian casualty data in England/Wales, minority ethnic people living in poorer areas are three times more likely to be injured or die as pedestrians on the road than white people in affluent districts. White people in non-deprived areas had an average annual...
Trading Clunkers for Electric Bikes
France is offering the owners of old, exhaust-belching cars the opportunity to hand over their vehicles for scrap in return for a 2,500 euro (NZ$4,200) grant to buy an electric bicycle. Lawmakers in the National Assembly have just approved the measure in a preliminary vote. It was an amendment to a draft climate bill...
Transport Mode Safety Risk
Most analysis of road injuries examines the risk experienced by people using different modes of transport. More recent research has examined the impact that specific transport modes have on other road users. Recent research has shown that per-vehicle kilometre, buses and lorries pose much higher risk to others...
Advanced Technology Assists Safe System Safety
New cars and other vehicles will be sold in Europe with automatic anti-speeding systems fitted as standard from 2022, if new regulations are approved. The "intelligent speed assistance" technology would be one of several innovations introduced in a bid to spur a "big leap forward" in road safety, if voted through...
Night-Time Young Driver Ban
Young drivers could be banned from the road at night in a bid to tackle high accident rates in England. Ministers are considering introducing a graduated licence system with a string of restrictions for newly qualified drivers. As well as not driving at night, other restrictions include a minimum learning period and...