{"id":4879,"date":"2024-07-12T06:24:15","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T20:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.temp.irap-dev.org\/racq-risk-mapping-crucial-in-state-advocacy\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T06:24:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T20:24:15","slug":"racq-risk-mapping-crucial-in-state-advocacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irap.org\/nl\/racq-risk-mapping-crucial-in-state-advocacy\/","title":{"rendered":"RACQ Risk Mapping crucial in State advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

De Royal Automobile Club of Queensland (RACQ)<\/a> in Australia proactively performs annual risk mapping to understand the crash risk on 21,500km of the State\u2019s regional high-speed road network.<\/p>\n

The results are shared in an innovative data hub that maps risk, star ratings and crashes.<\/p>\n

RACQ\u2019s Traffic and Safety Engineering Manager Gregory Miszkowycz said, \u201cRACQ advocates for mass action road safety programmes that will reduce fatalities by at least 50%, and serious injuries by at least 30% in Queensland, by 2031.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnnual risk mapping is an important part of our work to understand the safety of State road infrastructure and performance track vital improvements,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

As well as identification of high-crash \u2018Black Links\u2019 where mass action road safety treatments could be most effective and economical to deliver the largest Fatal and Serious Injury (FSI) crash reductions, network-level performance tracking of crashes are also measured against a baseline 2014-18 dataset, to better understand how the road network is tracking towards meeting crash reduction targets set under National and State Road Safety Strategies by 2030 and 2031, respectively.<\/p>\n

RACQ supports over 1.7 million members and recently invited all Queenslanders<\/a> to vote on what the Club should prioritise in its advocacy in the lead-up to the October State elections.<\/p>\n

RACQ\u2019s General Manager of Advocacy Joshua Cooney said, \u201cQueenslanders are ranking the Bruce Highway as their number one concern in RACQ\u2019s Top 10 Priorities list in the lead up to the polls.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Bruce Highway is the backbone of Queensland\u2019s economic activity, but almost half of it (45.2%) is rated just 2-stars out of five for road infrastructure safety. In desperate need of repairs and upgrades, we need all political parties to lock in a 10-year state and federal funding commitment to reverse the piecemeal approach to Bruce Highway project delivery.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn average 29 people lose their life on the Bruce each year and more than 360 suffer serious injuries from crashes. In addition, almost half of the Bruce Highway link sections (11 of the 23) totalling 670 kilometres are considered a high-crash \u2018Black Link\u2019 under our AusRAP crash Risk Mapping analysis,\u201d Mr Cooney said.<\/p>\n

RACQ\u2019s completion of annual risk mapping and open publication of results is helping advocacy efforts for safer roads, as well as informing investment prioritisation and decision-making for safer roads in the State.<\/p>\n

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