Gunnar Tunkrans Björn Möller

Managing Director Marketing Director

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 M Sc Civil Engineering
40 years experience of planning,
design, construction and manage-
ment of roads and road transport.
5 years international experience.
Member of PIARC committee
Financing, Managing and
Gunnar Tunkrans Contracting of Road System
Investments.
Managing Director Swedish chairman of Nordic Road
Forum committee Organization
and Market
B Sc Civil Engineering
B Sc Education
37 years experience of planning,
design, construction and manage-
ment of roads and road transport.
15 years international experience.
3 years with Nordic Development Björn Möller
Fund.
Marketing Director
• Founded in 1981.
• The task is to carry out consultancy services, which also can
include the sale of products and services, in the area of road
management as well as other things compatible therewith.
(articles of association)
• Strong areas are traffic safety and institutional development.
• 12 persons at head office in Sweden and almost 50 employees
in different parts of the world during a year.
• Activities in almost 20 countries in 2010.
• Owned by the Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communi-
cations and managed by the Swedish Transport Administration.
 Swedish Transport Policy
The overarching goal of Swedish transport policy is
to ensure a socio-economically efficient transport
provision, sustainable over the long term, for citizens
and trade and industry across the country
• The main objective for Sweden s transport policy:
Accessibility
• Considering and setting end conditions for:
Safety, the environment and health
 Vision: Everybody arrives smoothly,
the green and safe way
The STA is responsible for:
• the long-term planning of the transport
system for road traffic, rail traffic, maritime
shipping, and air traffic
• construction, operation and maintenance of
the state road network and national railway
network
 Swedish Road and Rail Networks
The road network The railway network
– 98,400 km of state roads – 11,900 km of railway line
– 41,000 km of municipal – 90% electrified
streets and roads – 11 400 switches
– 76,100 km of private roads – 560 stations for boarding and
alighting
with state grant
 STA is committed:
to a transport system for everyone
• A transport system for both women and men
• Accessibility for disabled
• Good conditions for pedestrian and bicycle traffic
• Public transportation attractive to many
• Smart technological solutions that increase
accessibility without jeopardizing safety or the
environment
• Effective logistical solutions in cooperation with
trade and industry
 STA is committed to
infrastructure adapted to people and nature
• Creating habitats for plants and animals
• Minimizing noise emissions from vehicles,
tires, and road surfaces
• Making it easier for both people and animals
to cross roads and railroads
• An infrastructure designed starting from the
conditions of the city and the landscape
• Well-designed rest areas that show and
safeguard the unique values of the landscape
 STA is committed to an energy-efficient transport
system with limited impact on the climate
• Better speed adjustments on the road network
• Economical driving in driver education
• Collaboration with trade and industry on things on
important issues e.g. logistics, carpools, travel policy,
and mobility management
• Collaboration with municipalities on restrictive
community planning for cars, and increased public
transportation and cycling
• Groundwork for decision-makers, for
example definition of an environmentally
clean vehicle
• Solutions for a more energy-efficient infra-
structure operation and maintenance
 STA is committed to
a safe transport system
• Adjustment of road traffic speed – adjusting to road
traffic safety standards
• More than 1,000 traffic safety cameras are located on
the most dangerous roads
• Work on influences: alcohol/drugs, seat belt use,
keeping to the speed limit, safety on and near railway
tracks, and bicycle helmet use
• 4200 km of multi-lane, bidirectional highways
• Suicide on roads and rail reduced through preventative
measures
 15 years ago Sweden started to look for
a new long-term road safety strategy
• Already one of the safest countries in
the world (6.5 killed/100 000 inhab.).
• Traditional strategy: fighting speeding,
drunk driving, promoting safe driving,
seat-belts etc..
• More of the same – or?
 Vision Zero: a Safe Traffic
Concept
History
On October 9, 1997 the Road
Traffic Safety Bill founded on Goal
"Vision Zero" was passed by a
The long term goal is that
large majority in the Swedish
no- one shall be killed or
Parliament. This represents
seriously injured within the
an entirely new way of
Swedish road transport
thinking with respect to road
system.
traffic safety.
 New approach to responsibilities

• Historically main responsi-

bility on the road user (blame
the victim approach)
• Vision Zero suggests a shared
responsibility

Claes Tingvall
14 Swedish Road Administration
 Vision Zero Safety philosophy
• The chain of events behind a serious
accident can be cut at many places
• Inspiration from other areas ( i.e.
occupational health and safety)
• People make errors, mistakes and
misjudgements
• There are biomechanical tolerance
limits

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 Vision Zero philosophy
Integration and Separation
1. Vulnerable road users should not be exposed to motorised vehicles
at speeds exceeding 30 km/h
2. Car occupants should not be exposed to other
motorised vehicles at speeds exceeding 50 km/h
in 90 degree crossings
3. Car occupants should not be exposed to oncoming
traffic (other vehicles of approximately same
weight) at speeds exceeding 70 km/h or 50 km/h
(if the weights are considerably different)
4. Car occupants should not be exposed to the road
side in speeds exceeding 70 km/h or 50 km/h (if
road side contains trees or other objects)

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 SweRoad at a glance
• Project implementation in:
• Africa
• Asia (incl. Former Soviet Republics)
• Europe
• Latin America
• Middle-East
• 21 person-years on overseas assignment through 47
staff (2009)
• Swedish Transport Administration provides staff
resources for overseas assignments (6,500 staff)
• Annual turnover 7 MUSD
 SweRoad follows a Multidisciplinary
Approach in its Road Safety Work
The ambition is to achieve: Safer People, Safer
System, Safer Vehicles and Safer Roads through:
• Enforcement
• Education and information
• Emergency
• Evaluation
• Engineering
SWEROADS general conception
of Road Safety
People

Vehicle Road

Society
 In Depth
Analyses

Guidelines Planning and

Design of Accessible
Infrastructure in the
Emirate of Dubai
Multi sector approach
Politicians
Police
Engineers
Vehicle inspectors
Driving Testers
Safety publicity
ROAD
SAFETY Legislators
PROBLEM
Medical Emergency services
Educators
Researchers
Private sector
Non Government Organisations
 International Experience
 Extensive proven experience from assisting other
countries to improve Road Safety activities .
 Extensive experience of institution building through
co-operation and training of local professionals.
 Can cover all areas in Road Traffic Safety projects.

Roads and traffic Road Safety +

Advisory work Enforcement
62 countries projects
32 countries
 The fundamental principle……
“ A large number of people exposed to a low risk is likely
to produce more cases than a small number of people
exposed to a high risk. In business the same principle
underlies the mass market: profits are larger when small
amounts are taken from the masses than when large
amounts are taken from the few rich people; and this
principle of the mass market applies
to many community health hazards.”

Geoffre Rose. Strategy of prevention: lessons from cardiovascular

disease, British medical journal volume 282 6 June 1981
 Ethics
“It can never be ethically acceptable that
people are killed or seriously injured when
moving within the road transport system”
Why?
Partly because being
a road user is not a
voluntary activity.

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 Thank you

gunnar.tunkrans@sweroad.se; bjorn.moller@sweroad.se