RECOVERY AND REHABILITATION OF CRASH VICTIMS FROM THE ROAD NETWORK

The Situation in Brazil

Brazil has a huge coastline, many ports and navigable rivers. Brazil has 8500 km of navigable coast. The Brazilian port complex handled 931 million tons of bulk cargo in 2013, an increase of 2.9% compared to 2012. According to Antaq (National Agency for Water Transports), Brazil transported via inland waterways routes, 38 million tons in the first half of 2014. According to the survey for economically navigable (and viable) routes, conducted by ANTAQ (2014), the main waterways in the country are: Amazon (17,651 km), Tocantins-Araguaia (1360 km), Parana-Tiete (1359 km), Paraguay (591 km), San Francisco (576 kilometers), south (500 km). Further expansion is feasible and is occurring.

Increased use of metro transport is also of value provided that the pedestrian movements created are well managed for safety. Salvador’s metro system has also been doubled (to 12km) and Sao Paulo’s expanded in recent years.

ANNEX 6 – Proposed Structure for the National Lead Agency

CONTERAN and Consultation Committee liaison and secretariat

The following features are identified as important advantages of the proposed structure, based on required functions, sound management processes, and organizational psychology:

The Director should have a deputy director to allow for a sufficiently senior position to act for the director in his or her absence. The deputy director role also allows for the Director to have less direct reporting staff, which will be important for the director to manage the large number of external facing relationships which will need to be managed at a high level. Finally, the deputy director role allows for more effective career progression and succession planning in the organization.

The structure is aligned with Safe System Principles by including sections for each pillar of safe systems (roads and roadsides, speed, people, and vehicles) explicitly in the proposed structure

The breadth of required interactions across the different levels of government and the required committees are addressed

The need for strategy development and performance monitoring are accommodated

The critical need for the development of sound data systems is also addressed

A significant (and possibly growing) number of people will be required to manage the budget of the Lead Agency, depending on how much funding is dedicated to Road Safety and managed via the Lead Agency.

Staff numbers for the Lead Agency are inevitably challenging to determine. The right numbers balance the need to retain as much of the Road Safety budget as possible for direct delivery of Road Safety policy and actions yet allows sufficient staff to ensure that the best polices and delivery mechanisms are chosen, to ensure that delivery occurs, to monitor outputs and outcomes, refine actions and report activity to government and the public. The complexity and multiple strand nature of Road Safety mean that this is a significant number of staff. For example, the lead agencies for Road Safety in Slovenia, Sweden, France, and in the state of New South Wales (Australia) all contain over 100 staff.

The following staff numbers are a suggested minimum, which should be revised after a period of operation to ensure that functions are effectively covered and to ensure that areas are not over-staffed the event that the role of the Lead Agency in specific areas is not as envisaged here.

Suggested approximate staff numbers for the lead Agency as an initial complement to be reviewed once functioning