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Building a Five-Star Future for Australian Roads Mr Alan Evans President Australian Automobile Association BTRE Transport Colloquium 14 June 2007 Building a Five-Star Future for Australian Roads • • • • • • • • The Role of AAA and Motoring Clubs The Australian Road Assessment Program (AusRAP) The North-South Corridor NRMA Pacific Highway Audit The Human & Economic Cost of Road Safety The Solution What is Needed The National Road Safety Strategy The Australian Road Assessment Program (AusRAP) • • • • • • • • Safer Systems – Safer Drivers in Safer Cars on Safer Roads AusRAP - Star Rating Australia’s Roads for Safety Two protocols – Risk Mapping/Star Ratings 51% of National AusLink Network Rated 3 Stars 3 Stars is Unacceptable for a National Highway Corridor is less than 3% of Australia’s Road Network Carries 15% of Nation’s Road Traffic Accounts for 14% of Road Deaths in Australia (2000-04) The North-South Corridor • • • • • • • • • • North-South Corridor Vital to Australian Economy 40% of all road freight movements use Hume Highway Heavily Trafficked Rail Freight Network Syd-Melb Freight Traffic up 70% over next 20 years Both Rail and Road Freight growing around 2.6%pa 5-6,000 truck movements daily along the Hume by 2025 Syd-Melb Rail Transit Times 13hrs – 10hrs for road 2006 Budget - $800m to Hume Upgrades Melbourne-Albury Link Rated 4 Stars Pacific Highway the Focus for Current and Future Efforts NRMA Audit of Pacific Highway • • • • • Over past 16 years, infrastructure has gone backwards 680km Hexham to Qld – 442km still to be upgraded 120 fatalities over past 3 years, 1,722 casualties B-Doubles up 400% on some sections of Pacific Trucks switching from New England to Pacific Highway The Human and Economic Cost • National Net Road Stock 10% of GDP – 22% in 1960 (CEDA Infrastructure Report – 2005) • Road Investment Provides a 5:1 Benefit Cost Ratio (CEDA Infrastructure Report – 2005) • Urban Road Congestion to cost $29.7 billion by 2015 (AusLink 2004) • Road Crashes and Trauma Costs $17 billion a year (Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health – 2006) The Solution The Good • • • Yelgun to Chinderah Freeway Bypass Woodend Bypass in Victoria Albury-Wodonga Bypass To Do • • • • • • • • McLean to Yelgun Nabiac to Taree Nagambie to Shepparton Bypass Upgraded Hume/Pacific Highways Duplication of M2 to F3 link in Sydney Upgrade New England Highway Western Brisbane Bypass Upgrades to Pacific Motorway The National Road Safety Strategy • NRSS aim of 40% fatality rate reduction off target • NRSS target – 1999 9.3 deaths per 100k to 5.6 by 2010 • 2007 road fatality rate 7.8 way off target • Higher than January 2005 rate of 7.6 deaths per 100k • Need to bring that figure down THANK YOU Building a Five-Star Future for Australian Roads Mr Alan Evans President Australian Automobile Association BTRE Transport Colloquium 14 June 2007