Summary

The UN Sustainable Development Goals have set the challenge to halve road deaths and injuries by 2020 (Goal 3.6). They have also set the challenge for safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems for all (Goal 11.2) and they have recognised the role of infrastructure in connecting people and products to support economic development and human well-being (Goal 9.1).

With only four years remaining to achieve the road safety goal, our challenge is to provide the catalyst and the capacity to make the target of reducing road deaths to less than 600,000 per year by 2020 achievable. We want to deliver a world free of high-risk roads – innovation, investment, scale and sharing of success will make this possible.

The iRAP innovation workshop 2016 was held at the World Bank Headquarters, Washington DC USA. The event brought together policy and technical leaders, along with investment experts and those with the capacity to implement change and eliminate high-risk roads. Global leaders who, together, will play a significant role in ensuring safer infrastructure and safer speeds do their part in delivering a safe road and transport system.

The iRAP Innovation workshop 2016 focussed on:

• Leadership innovation
• Policy innovation
• Technical innovation
• Implementation innovation
• Funding innovation.

Innovation workshop 2016 – presentation archive

Day 1 – Leadership innovation

• Welcome to 2016 Innovation workshop – Rob McInerney
• Multi-lateral development banks (MDB) action to save lives – Soames Job
• Vision Zero and the role of 3 Star or better roads – Steve Lavrenz
• usRAP policy targets and safety plans – Greg Cohen
• ChinaRAP and the impressive scaling up to save lives – Ronggui Zhou and Tiejun Zhang
• Mexico and the world’s largest Star rating performance tracking – Jose Antonio Ramirez and Carlos Lopez
• Bloomberg Philanthropies initiative for Global Road Safety: Targeting cities and countries – Rebecca Bavinger

Day 1 – Policy innovation

• The role and power of international benchmarks in support of better policies – Jose Viegas
• The Three Star coalition – Advocacy for Safer Roads – Keith Johnson
• Malaysia leads the way for low, middle income countries (LMICs) with Star rating policy target – Shaw Voon Wong and Alvin Poi Wai Hoong
• Global initiative for child health and mobility focuses on policy for safe and healthy routes to school – Natalie Draisin
• Qatar deserves the best – John Fletcher
• 5-star motorways – ITS and the managed motorway potential – John Fletcher
• World Bank and Star rating of roads in new projects in India – Krishnan Srinivason
• UNESCAP design standards and Star ratings – Greg Smith

Day 2 – Technical innovation

• Star rating for schools – Julio Urzua
• Star rating of designs – Marko Sevrovic
• usRAP innovation in data collection and integration – the Utah experience – Scott Jones
• CycleRAP – Ferry Smith
• Dutch experiences with EuroRAP – Ferry Smith
• ANRAM and iRAP integration with road authority practice – Dave Jones
• Learnings from urban KiwiRAP – Fergus Tate

Day 2 – Implementation innovation

• Safer roads and safer speeds: the key to 2020 success – Soames Job and Dipan Bose
• Safe system in acatin in Belize – Yvonne S. Hyde
• usRAP strategic highway safety plans – the Alabama experience – Michael Anderson
• The PIARC road safety manual and Safe Systems – Mike Griffith and Rob McInerney

Day 2 – Financing innovation

• Innovative financing to deliver 3-star or better roads – Philippe Fenain
• Incentivising safer roads – the toll road opportunities:
  • Incentivising road safety – Rob McInerney
  • Road safety performance incentives – Fergus Tate

Day 2 – Impact investment

• iRAP and impact investing – Rob McInerney
• Successful public-private impact investments – John K. Roman
• Investing to save lives: an impact investment case for preventing road trauma – Jane Newman