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    Strategy Paper

    This section contains the details of the Road Traffic Safety Strategy Paper

    • Preface
    • Executive Summary
    • 1.Situation Assessment
    • 2.Our Traffic Safety Mission
    • 3.Our Traffic Safety Vision
    • 4.Guidelines
    • 5.Core Values
    • 6.Method and Procedure
    • 7.Measures to be taken and works to be done
      • Priority Areas/Speed
      • Priority Areas/Vulnerable Road Users
      • Priority Areas/Accident Blackspots
      • Intervention Areas/Management
      • Intervention Areas/Infrastructre
      • Intervention Areas/Vehicles
      • Intervention Areas/Education
      • Intervention Areas/Enforcement
      • Intervention Areas / Post Accident
    • 8.The Future of Traffic Safety
    • 9.Measurement and Evaluation
    • 10.Monitoring and Evaluation Indicators
    • 11.References
  • ACTION PLAN

    Action Plan

    This section contains the details of the Road Traffic Safety Strategy Paper

    • 1.Priority Areas
      • Overspeed
      • Vulnerable Road Users
      • Improvement of Accident Blackspots
    • 2.Fields to be Intervened
      • Traffic Safety Management
      • Infrastructure:Road and Road Environment
      • Vehicles
      • Educations for Road Users
      • Traffic Enforcement Activities
      • Post-Accident Response, Care and Rehabilition
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    İnstitutional

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    • Expert Groups
    • Stakeholder Institutions Publications
    • Legislation
      • Presidential Circular
      • Ministry Order
      • Procedures and Principles
    • Organizational Structure
    • Frequently Asked Questions
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    Developments and progress in the Strategy Paper and Action Plan

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  • STRATEGY PAPER
    • Preface
    • Executive Summary
    • 1.Situation Assessment
    • 2.Our Traffic Safety Mission
    • 3.Our Traffic Safety Vision
    • 4.Guidelines
    • 5.Core Values
    • 6.Method and Procedure
    • 7.Measures to be taken and works to be done
      • Priority Areas/Speed
      • Priority Areas/Vulnerable Road Users
      • Priority Areas/Accident Blackspots
      • Intervention Areas/Management
      • Intervention Areas/Infrastructre
      • Intervention Areas/Vehicles
      • Intervention Areas/Education
      • Intervention Areas/Enforcement
      • Intervention Areas / Post Accident
    • 8.The Future of Traffic Safety
    • 9.Measurement and Evaluation
    • 10.Monitoring and Evaluation Indicators
    • 11.References
  • ACTION PLAN
    • 1.Priority Areas
      • Overspeed
      • Vulnerable Road Users
      • Improvement of Accident Blackspots
    • 2.Fields to be Intervened
      • Traffic Safety Management
      • Infrastructure:Road and Road Environment
      • Vehicles
      • Educations for Road Users
      • Traffic Enforcement Activities
      • Post-Accident Response, Care and Rehabilition
  • INSTITUTIONAL
    • Cooperation Board
    • Monitoring and Implementation Board
    • Expert Groups
    • Stakeholder Institutions Publications
    • Legislation
      • Presidential Circular
      • Ministry Order
      • Procedures and Principles
    • Organizational Structure
    • Frequently Asked Questions
  • CURRENT
    • Development and Progress
    • News
    • Announcements
  • PUBLICATIONS
    • United Nations
    • European Union
    • Other Countries
    • Other International Organizations
    • Stakeholder Publications
    • Books, Articles, Researches
  • CONTACT

Improvement of Accident Blackspots

Improvement of Accident Blackspots and Prevention of Loss of Life at Such Blackspots Through Effective, Sustained and Intensive Enforcement

 

The concept “Accident Blackspots” used to define road sections where most accidents occur globally, is also used to define “road sections where certain types of accidents specifically occur”. In other words, accident blackspots define not all spots where accidents occur but those where certain types of accidents are specifically encountered.

Identification and improvement of accident blackspots is important as part of works seeking to ensure traffic safety and to reduce the number of accidents.

The first step towards the reduction of lives lost as part of total traffic safety efforts is, first, to identify sections of roads, streets, avenues, intersections and other road sections alike, where traffic accidents and resulting deaths are significantly high in a given time so as to eliminate, through information campaigns and enforcement, any shortcomings with such roads and the surroundings thereof, with the ultimate goal of preventing deaths.

Objective

O.3. Identification and Improvement of Accident Blackspots on Urban and Inter-city Road Network through Scientific Methods to Prevent Deaths

Target-1

T.3.1. Identification of accident blackspots on urban and inter-city road network and infrastructural arrangements as required

Target-2

T.3.2. Demonstration of traffic accident data on POLNET and JTBS (traffic databanks of the Police and the Gendarmerie, respectively) as well as analyses and reporting thereof

Target-3

T.3.3. Provision of traffic units with the digital infrastructure focusing on statistical outcomes to enable enforcement and penalty analyses

Table of Bodies Responsible and Cooperation Bodies in Relation with Performance Indicators
  1. Ministry of Environment and Urbanization
    • General Directorate of Local
  2. Ministry of Interior
    • General Directorate of the Turkish National Police
    • General Command of the Gendarmerie
  3. The Ministry of Health
    • General Directorate of Emergency Health Services
  4. Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure
    • General Directorate of Communication
    • General Directorate of Highways
  5. Municipalities
  6. Union of Municipalities of Turkey

Performance Indicators

Responsible and

Cooperation Bodies

Impact on Target (%)

Planning Period Baseline Value (2020)

2021

2022

2023

PI 3.1.1:

The number of accident blackspots and road sections with a high potential for accidents to be improved on the road network of the General Directorate of Highways

RESPONSIBLE BODIES: General Directorate of Highways

COOPERATION BODIES:

General Directorate of the Turkish National Police,

General Command of the Gendarmerie

40%

65

135

210

285

PI 3.1.2:

Rate of completion of required analyses and assessments for the identification of accident blackspots on municipal roads

RESPONSIBLE BODIES: General Directorate of Local Governments, Local Governments Union of Municipalities of Turkey, Municipalities

COOPERATION BODIES: General Directorate of Highways, General Directorate of the Turkish National Police, General Command of the Gendarmerie

30%

-

50%

100%

100%

PI 3.1.3:

Rate of completion of infrastructure works to improve accident blackspots on municipal roads

RESPONSIBLE BODIES: General Directorate of Local Governments, Local Governments Union of Municipalities of Turkey, Municipalities

COOPERATION BODIES: General Directorate of Highways, General Directorate of the Turkish National Police, General Command of the Gendarmerie

30%

-

-

50%

100%

PI 3.2.1:

Rate of completion of infrastructure works to enable entry of crash reports on POLNET and JTBS databases by traffic officers of the General Directorate of the Turkish National Police and the General Command of the Gendarmerie

RESPONSIBLE BODIES: General Directorate of the Turkish National Police,

General Command of the Gendarmerie

COOPERATION BODIES:

General Directorate of Highways,

General Directorate of Local Governments

Local Governments

General Directorate of Emergency Health Services,

General Directorate of Communication

25%

30%

50%

100%

-

3.2.2:

Rate of completion of the required infrastructure works for detailed and accurate analyses of crash, enforcement and penalty data

RESPONSIBLE BODIES: General Directorate of the Turkish National Police,

General Command of the Gendarmerie

COOPERATION BODIES:

General Directorate of Highways,

General Directorate of Local Governments

Local Governments

General Directorate of Emergency Health Services,

General Directorate of Communication

25%

30%

50%

100%

-

 

Performance Indicators

Responsible and Coordination Bodies

Impact on Target (%)

Planning Period Baseline Value (2020)

2021

2022

2023

PI 3.2.3:

The number of digital traffic safety maps based on density analyses (road users, vehicles, transportation, accident, etc.)

RESPONSIBLE BODIES: General Directorate of Highways,

General Directorate of Local Governments

COOPERATION BODIES:

General Directorate of the Turkish National Police,

General Command of the Gendarmerie,

General Directorate of Emergency Health Services,

General Directorate of Communication,

Union of Municipalities of Turkey,

Municipalities

25%

-

30

30

21

PI 3.2.4:

Number of institutions responsible for the construction, maintenance and repair of urban and inter-city roads with whom data from density analyses are mutually exchanged in view to improve accident blackspots and road sections with traffic density

RESPONSIBLE BODIES: General Directorate of Highways,

General Directorate of Local Governments,

General Directorate of the Turkish National Police,

General Command of the Gendarmerie

COOPERATION BODIES:

General Directorate of Emergency Health Services,

General Directorate of Communication,

Union of Municipalities of Turkey,

Municipalities

25%

-

30

30

21

PI 3.3.1:

Rate of completion of infrastructure works to enable traffic units of the General Directorate of the Turkish National Police and the General Command of the Gendarmerie enter data on the POLNET and JTBS

RESPONSIBLE BODIES: General Directorate of the Turkish National Police,

General Command of the Gendarmerie

COOPERATION BODIES:

General Directorate of Highways,

General Directorate of Local Governments

Union of Municipalities of Turkey,

Municipalities,

General Directorate of Emergency Health Services

30%

-

50%

100%

-

PI 3.3.2:

Number of provinces, where root-causes of accidents on accident blackspots have been analyzed to feed into enforcement practices

RESPONSIBLE BODIES: General Directorate of the Turkish National Police,

General Command of the Gendarmerie

COOPERATION BODIES:

General Directorate of Highways,

General Directorate of Local Governments

Union of Municipalities of Turkey,

Municipalities,

General Directorate of Emergency Health Services

50%

-

30

30

21

PI 3.3.3:

Number of annual training courses for staff at units responsible for analyses

RESPONSIBLE BODIES: General Directorate of the Turkish National Police,

General Command of the Gendarmerie

COOPERATION BODIES: General Directorate of Highways,

General Directorate of Local Governments,

Union of Municipalities of Turkey,

Municipalities,

General Directorate of Emergency Health Services

20%

-

2

4

4

 

Risks

•Shortcomings in resources for responsible bodies

•Issues in data collection, assessment and analyses

•Shortages in trained staff

Strategies
  • Develop the required system software following legislative amendments
  • Sharing of data and outcomes of enforcement and penalties with respective bodies to ensure measures that are more effective
  • Entering accident data maintained by the Police and the Gendarmerie on POLNET and JTBS databases as soon as possible
  • Establishing analytical units at the central as well as regional levels to facilitate detailed and accurate analyses of accident, enforcement and penal data
  • Performing works as required for effective and efficient use of tablets following the commissioning of the software needed

Findings
  • Insufficient avail of advancing and changing technologies
  • Variety of institutions housing data concerning traffic safety

Needs
  • Improvement of the current system shared-used in coordination by the IT and Communications Department of the General Directorate of the Turkish National Police and the MEBS (Communications and Electronic Information Systems) of the General Command of the Gendarmerie in line with current requirements to allow for filter, analysis and reporting screens
  • Pooling traffic safety-related information maintained by a variety of institutions for optimal use
  • Training of authorized staff at the provincial level
  • Enhance inter-institutional sharing-of data and cooperation

 

 
 

STRATEGY PAPER

  • Preface
  • Executive Summary
  • 1.Situation Assessment
  • 2.Our Traffic Safety Mission
  • 3.Our Traffic Safety Vision
  • 4.Guidelines
  • 5.Core Values
  • 6.Method and Procedure
  • 7.Measures to be taken and works to be done
    • Priority Areas/Speed
    • Priority Areas/Vulnerable Road Users
    • Priority Areas/Accident Blackspots
    • Intervention Areas/Management
    • Intervention Areas/Infrastructre
    • Intervention Areas/Vehicles
    • Intervention Areas/Education
    • Intervention Areas/Enforcement
    • Intervention Areas / Post Accident
  • 8.The Future of Traffic Safety
  • 9.Measurement and Evaluation
  • 10.Monitoring and Evaluation Indicators
  • 11.References

ACTION PLAN

  • 1.Priority Areas
    • Overspeed
    • Vulnerable Road Users
    • Improvement of Accident Blackspots
  • 2.Fields to be Intervened
    • Traffic Safety Management
    • Infrastructure:Road and Road Environment
    • Vehicles
    • Educations for Road Users
    • Traffic Enforcement Activities
    • Post-Accident Response, Care and Rehabilition

INSTITUTIONAL

  • Cooperation Board
  • Monitoring and Implementation Board
  • Expert Groups
  • Stakeholder Institutions Publications
  • Legislation
    • Presidential Circular
    • Ministry Order
    • Procedures and Principles
  • Organizational Structure
  • Frequently Asked Questions

CURRENT

  • Development and Progress
  • News
  • Announcements

PUBLICATIONS

  • United Nations
  • European Union
  • Other Countries
  • Other International Organizations
  • Stakeholder Publications
  • Books, Articles, Researches

CONTACT

  • STRATEGY PAPER
    • Preface
    • Executive Summary
    • 1.Situation Assessment
    • 2.Our Traffic Safety Mission
    • 3.Our Traffic Safety Vision
    • 4.Guidelines
    • 5.Core Values
    • 6.Method and Procedure
    • 7.Measures to be taken and works to be done
      • Priority Areas/Speed
      • Priority Areas/Vulnerable Road Users
      • Priority Areas/Accident Blackspots
      • Intervention Areas/Management
      • Intervention Areas/Infrastructre
      • Intervention Areas/Vehicles
      • Intervention Areas/Education
      • Intervention Areas/Enforcement
      • Intervention Areas / Post Accident
    • 8.The Future of Traffic Safety
    • 9.Measurement and Evaluation
    • 10.Monitoring and Evaluation Indicators
    • 11.References
  • ACTION PLAN
    • 1.Priority Areas
      • Overspeed
      • Vulnerable Road Users
      • Improvement of Accident Blackspots
    • 2.Fields to be Intervened
      • Traffic Safety Management
      • Infrastructure:Road and Road Environment
      • Vehicles
      • Educations for Road Users
      • Traffic Enforcement Activities
      • Post-Accident Response, Care and Rehabilition
  • INSTITUTIONAL
    • Cooperation Board
    • Monitoring and Implementation Board
    • Expert Groups
    • Stakeholder Institutions Publications
    • Legislation
      • Presidential Circular
      • Ministry Order
      • Procedures and Principles
    • Organizational Structure
    • Frequently Asked Questions
  • CURRENT
    • Development and Progress
    • News
    • Announcements
  • PUBLICATIONS
    • United Nations
    • European Union
    • Other Countries
    • Other International Organizations
    • Stakeholder Publications
    • Books, Articles, Researches
  • CONTACT

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