Austroads project, Keeping people safe when walking, is seeking input from stakeholders who can provide valuable experience and insight into pedestrian road safety.

Walking is an indispensable leg of a sustainable transport system and this new project crucial to reaching our target of zero road fatalities and serious injuries by 2050.

The Austroads’ project is a comprehensive program to help significantly reduce the risk to pedestrians in the road transport system over the next decade. The project will:

1. Review travel and trauma data to better understand pedestrian safety risk priorities

2. Identify priorities to improve data needed to support investment in pedestrian safety

3. Assess strategies and interventions to progress pedestrian safety Vision Zero

4. Develop practitioner guidance to support implementation of pedestrian safety measures

5. Support jurisdictions planning to eliminate pedestrian death and serious injury

In Australia’s urban areas, almost one third of all deaths on the road network are pedestrians. This project will start by reviewing travel and trauma data to gain a better understanding of the ways at which pedestrians are at risk on our roads, and to identify the data required to support investment in safer walking.

Austroads invites anyone with interest in this important area to complete the stakeholder survey at the link below.

Thank you