Road Safety Action Partnership

Road Safety Action Plans provide a mechanism for achieving sustained reductions in road trauma. The Taranaki Road Safety Action Plan (RSAP) contains an implementation plan to give effect to local/regional coordinated inter-agency road safety strategies. It is focused on coordinating the delivery of enforcement, education and engineering activities to manage key local road safety risks. Regional and local road safety partners identify problems to be solved by assessing information and intelligence such as crash data, community identified needs, traffic counts and speeds, police enforcement and prosecution data, studies and surveys, media issues, and results from the community outcomes process.

Collaboration is key to successful implementation of the Taranaki RSAP both in the production of the RSAP and ongoing monitoring of its progress . The Taranaki RSAP group meets quarterly and includes road safety partners such as district council roading planners, ACC, police, New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) regional representatives, New Plymouth injury Safe and the regional road safety coordinator.

The Taranaki RSAP has the following objectives:

• To reduce the incidence and severity of crashes in the Taranaki region
• To achieve a level of safety associated with land transport in the Taranaki region that is less than or equal to that of other councils in their respective peer groups

Progress of the RSAP is measured in the following ways:

• Report bank
• Maintained reduction in road crash figures
• Responding to identified areas that require alteration