Why we need safer vehicles –Part 1 - NZ Transport Agency
Transcript of Why we need safer vehicles –Part 1 - NZ Transport Agency
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
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
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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
SafetyLevel of service
Fees & costs
SafetyLevel of service
Fees & costs
Balancing the tensions between safety, service and fees / costs
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CUSTOMER
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Always compliant
Generally compliant
Needs reminders
Recidivist
Road user compliance profile
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Vehicle safety profile Commercial operators compliance profile
Making compliance simple
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Giving effect to strategic priorities
•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
Giving effect to strategic priorities
•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
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.