iRAP has proudly announced the winner and finalists for the 2024 iRAP Gary Liddle Memorial Trophy in Marrakech today, presented to the world’s best performing road authority eliminating high-risk roads.

Presented during the Ten Steps to 2030 for Safer Road Infrastructure Side Event of the 4th Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety, the perpetual iRAP Trophy honours the lifelong public-sector and transport contribution of the charity’s former Board Chairman Gary Liddle AO who passed away in 2023.

The winners were selected from 12 highly competitive nominations from 11 countries.

Tanzania National Roads Agency (TANROADS) took out the prestigious gong as this year’s Winner. Tanzania was the first country in the world to apply the innovative Ten Step Plan for Safer Road Infrastructure with TANROADS successfully achieving reductions in road trauma associated with their elimination of high-risk journeys for all road users across the country.  TANROADS’ Ten Step Plan Initiative has also built sustainable institutional capacity, impact, and partnerships that continue to identify and eliminate high-risk roads across Tanzania, where it is estimated road crashes claim more than 16,000 people each year.

The recipients of the 2024 Gary Liddle Memorial Trophy are:

• Winner – TANROADS for ‘Ten Step Plan Tanzania’
• Shining Star – Roads General Authority for ‘Safer Roads in Saudi Arabia’
• Shining Star – Himachal Pradesh Roads Infrastructure Development Corporation (HPRIDCL) for ‘Safer Roads in Himachal Pradesh, India’
• Rising Star – Municipality of Lima, Peru for ‘Enhancing School Zone Safety through the Colecaminos Program’
• Rising Star – Main Roads Western Australia for the ‘Tonkin Highway Extension’

iRAP Global Program Director and Acting CEO Greg Smith said, “It is a privilege to honour Gary Liddle’s legacy today and celebrate the lifesaving work of road authorities worldwide in making roads safer and communities more liveable through the innovative application of the iRAP methodology and tools.

“The calibre of nominations this year was very high, with TANROADS a standout for its widescale application of the iRAP approach, large scale of mobilised investment focused on all road users, and rapid scaling of partnerships and capacity to save lives. TANROADS’ program demonstrates the innovative world-first implementation of the multi-partner collaborative Ten Step Plan for Safer Road Infrastructure approach. Its effectiveness and transferability is evident today in TANROADS’ achievement and demand for the approach from other countries in the region.”

Accepting the award on behalf of TANROADS, His Excellency Hon. Abdallah Hamis Ulega, Minister of Works in Tanzania said, “We are very proud to receive the iRAP Gary Liddle Memorial Trophy in recognition of TANROADS’ work driving safer roads capacity, policy and infrastructure improvements to reduce the burden of road crash injury in our country. Tanzania was the first country in the world to use the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration (UNRSC) Ten-Step Plan for Safer Road Infrastructure and it has empowered and fast-tracked road safety improvements in our country, setting us in a good position to halve global road deaths and injuries in the country by 2030 aligned to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

iRAP’s Star Rating Methodology provides a simple and objective measure of the level of safety that is ‘built-in’ to the road for vehicle occupants, motorcyclists, bicyclists, and pedestrians.

Impressed with the high calibre of nominations, the judging panel opted to also award Shining Star Trophies to the Himachal Pradesh Roads Infrastructure Development Corporation India and Roads General Authority of Saudi Arabia, and Rising Star Trophies to the Municipality of Lima and Main Roads Western Australia, each showing impressive road safety leadership in different ways.

Left to right: Miquel Nadal, iRAP Chairman; Mohammed Al Abood, Head, Traffic Engineering and Safety Department, Ministry of Transport and Logistic Services, Saudi Arabia; Mohamed Besta, CEO, TANROADS; Craig Arnold, Technical Lead in the Forensic Investigations Team, TRL (collecting on behalf of HPRIDCL); Minh Vo, iRAP Star Rating for Schools Coordinator (collecting on behalf of the Municipality of Lima); Peter Jamieson, Managing Director, Anditi (collecting on behalf of Main Roads Western Australia); and Greg Smith, Acting CEO and Global Program Director, iRAP.

For more information on the Gary Liddle Memorial Trophy and 2024 and 2023 winners, click here.

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