About
Our Minister
Hon Joel Bowden
Minister for Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics.
Developing a new Towards Zero Road Safety Action Plan 2024-2028
In 2018, the first Towards Zero Road Safety Action Plan 2018-2022 was released with input from key road safety stakeholders and communities across the Territory. The Plan included 49 targeted actions to positively impact on road safety in the Territory.
It is now time to develop the next Towards Zero Road Safety Action Plan 2024-2028. This plan will build upon the successes from Towards Zero 2018-2022 and will continue the implementation of actions targeting reductions in road trauma on Territory roads.
Towards Zero Round Tables were held in Darwin and Alice Springs in May 2023, and the outcomes have contributed to the development of a Discussion Paper PDF (1.6 MB). Following consultation on the Discussion Paper in early 2024, feedback is being reviewed, and will inform the development of the 2024-2028 Road Safety Action Plan.
Towards Zero Action Plan 2018-22
Towards Zero Road Safety Action Plan (Towards Zero) is a five year road safety action plan which has been developed through extensive community consultation. Towards Zero focuses on road safety actions to address the key priority areas for the Northern Territory. The Road Safety Executive Group, consisting of the Chief Executive of the Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics, the Police Commissioner, the Under Treasurer and the Motor Accident Compensation Commissioner, has led the development of Towards Zero.
This Towards Zero Action Plan will work towards improving road safety in the Northern Territory over the next five years. Towards Zero will guide improvements in road safety, making all road users safer and reducing the rate of fatality and serious injury on Territory roads.
Towards Zero adopts the Vision Zero concept – A safer road transport system where no person is killed or seriously injured. This vision aims to inspire ownership of the Territory’s road safety challenges, and motivate Territorians to take action to use our roads more safely. Vision Zero has been adopted by all Australian jurisdictions, and widely adopted globally.
The goal of Towards Zero is:
- to reduce death and serious injury on our roads
- to cultivate a responsible road culture and
- for people to work together and ‘own’ our need to improve road safety.
The Plan also adopts the Safe Systems approach to improving road safety which has been adopted nationally and internationally and includes the following elements: Safe road use, Safe roads and roadsides, Safe vehicles and Safe speeds.
Towards Zero includes priority areas with actions to be implemented over the next five years from 2018 – 2022.
Actions included in Towards Zero focus on the following key road safety priority areas/vulnerable road users:
- alcohol and drugs
- seatbelts and child restraints
- safer road use
- roads and roadsides
- safer vehicles
- vulnerable road users - Aboriginal people, novice drivers, motorcyclists, pedestrians, visiting drivers and cyclists.
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Road Safety Executive Group
NT Road Safety Executive Group (RSEG) is charged with delivering a coordinated approach to making our roads safer and monitoring the implementation of the Towards Zero 2018-22 Road Safety Action Plan.
This group includes the Police Commissioner, the Chief Executive of the Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics, the Motor Accident Compensation Commissioner and the Deputy Under Treasurer.
Partners
Key organisations developing and delivering road safety education and community awareness programs and campaigns include:
