why we need safer vehicles –part 1 - nz transport agency

Why we need safer vehicles – Part 1

Vehicle Safety Advisory Group (VSAG)

25th March 2010

John Oldroyd, National Manager Vehicles

What I will be covering:

•History of VSAC and new direction of VSAG

History of VSAC

VSAG – scope and rationale

Some proposed ground rules for VSAG

•NZTA Strategic Overview and Direction

NZTA strategic priorities & structure

Access & Use strategy & structure

Giving effect to strategic priorities

Safer Journeys and the safe system approach

VSAG – The History

•The LTSA and land-transport rule-making were created by the LandTransport Act 1993

•VSAC (Vehicle Standards Advisory Committee) was established asone mechanism ensuring consultation occurred during the rule-making process

•As name suggests, VSAC was about vehicle standards and tendedtowards a more technical focus

•VSAC stopped meeting a couple of years ago as the remaining majorRules were being implemented

VSAG – The Future

•VSAG needs to take a wider view than VSAC and provide aforum to identify and discuss regulatory and industry issues

•Identify and solve the big issues and find ways of realisingopportunities to improve the way we all do business

•Help prioritise regulatory effort to where it is most needed

VSAG – Why the need

•NZTA has neither the capacity nor capability to go it alone

•Regulatory effort and industry-need have to be better aligned

•Industry and government agencies need to work inpartnership with each other

•NZTA focus on improving customer service and reducingcompliance costs

•Need for a vehicles-centric forum to keep industry up to dateabout regulatory and policy matters

VSAG – Some proposed ground rules

•Membership of VSAG needs to reflect industry leadership

•Chatham House rules apply (what is said at VSAG remains atVSAG)

•Open forum to raise issues but no grandstanding please!

•VSAG is not a technical forum and any technical issues needto be addressed through technical workstream groups

VSAG – More proposed ground rules

•VSAG structure and format to be flexible and evolutionary

•Mixture of industry and government agencypresentations and issue specific discussions

• No “chair” but moderator/facilitator to ensure smooth flow ofagenda

•Be willing to volunteer resources to ‘out-of-session’ technicalworkstreams

VSAG – Any questions?

Why we need safer vehicles – Part 2

It is a single car....

This is the driver!This is the driver!

NZTA Strategic Overview

25th March 2010

John Oldroyd, National Manager Vehicles

NZTA Strategic Priorities

•Improve roads of national significance

•Improve road safety

•Improve efficiency of freight movements

•Improve effectiveness of public transport

•Improve customer service and reduce compliance costs

NZTA Structure

Strategic directionStrategic direction

Service DeliveryService Delivery



Strategic alignmentStrategic alignment


Access & Use Structure

Licensing drivers

Advertising

Educating

Licensing transport operators

Licensing rail operators

Licensing vehicles

Registering vehicles

Auditing road & rail operators

Collecting Road User Charges

Vehicle inspection & certification

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Access and Use Group Structure

Manager GM Support OfficeJohn White

National Manager Commercial

Operators Road & Rail

John Doesburg

National Manager Vehicles

John Oldroyd

National Manager Road User Behaviour

Michael Cummins

National Manager Regional OperationsAlex Sims

National Manager Registry & Revenue ManagementBrett Dooley

Group Manager Access & UseIan Gordon

Vehicles Unit –Structural change

The Vehicles Unit is now structured into:

Heavy Vehicle

Light Vehicle

Programme Development & Analysis

Chief Engineer

Advantages include:

�better customer focus,

�end-to-end ‘product’ ownership,

�alignment with RS 2020,

Access & Use strategy in a nutshell

•Three Strategic Themes: 1) Road User Behaviour

2) Vehicles

3) Commercial Operators

•Two Operating units 1) Regional Operations

2) Transport Registry Centre

•The role of the themes is to develop and maintain standards,Rules, policies and processes for compliance and licensingactivities

•The role of the operational units is to implement thosestandards, Rules, policies and processes

Theme three – Commercial OperatorsCommercial benefit for being compliant

Theme one - Road User BehaviourSafer road users

Theme two - VehiclesEasy to have a safer and compliant vehicle

CAPABILITY

Public service

BHAG: Compliance 365

OWNER

SafetyLevel of service

Fees & costs


Fees & costs


Fees & costs

Balancing the tensions between safety, service and fees / costs

PROCESS

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Always compliant

Generally compliant

Needs reminders

Recidivist

Road user compliance profile

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Today

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Intelligence and SOPs

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Intelligence and SOPs Intelligence and SOPs

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Recidivist Always compliant

Generally compliant

Needs reminders

Recidivist

Vehicle safety profile Commercial operators compliance profile

Making compliance simple

Deter

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Enforce

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Inform

Legal

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•Access & Use focus on:

Improve customer service and reduce compliance costs

Improve Road Safety

•Improving existing processes and activities within atransformational framework

•Looking at many of the Vehicles Unit “business-as-usual”initiatives later in the day and seeking to build on themthrough VSAG


•Transformational initiatives:Modernisation of registers

Right-sizing business

Compliance strategy

Channel strategy

Operator Rating System

Safe Systems approach

•Safe System: A new approach to road safety

The Safe System – our long term focus

Safer Journeys Vision

A safe road system increasingly free of death and serious injury

What a safe system means

humans are fallible and we all make mistakes

understanding the ability of the human body to withstand crash forces

system designers and system users each take responsibility for managing the above

we need to work together on all parts of the system

Our aim is a forgiving transport system so that when crashes do happen, death and serious injury is not the inevitable result.

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Safe system approach

Align safety activities

The Safer Journeys strategy will guide our approach to road safety over the next decade.

Thank You

…Any questions?

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