- Prioritise and treat high-risk rural and urban roads, focusing on the main crash types and vulnerable road users.
- Assess road safety risk on state and territory controlled roads carrying the highest traffic volumes.
- Review road infrastructure safety programmes to establish best practice processes for identifying, prioritising and developing projects based on fatal and serious casualty reduction criteria.
- Establish an assessment framework and training package to help translate current Safe System infrastructure knowledge and research into practice.
- Apply national willingness-to-pay values for infrastructure investment and other road safety project appraisals.
- Mandate pole side impact occupant protection standards for new vehicles.
- Mandate anti-lock brake systems for new motorcycles.
- Mandate electronic stability control (ESC) for new heavy vehicles.
- Promote the market uptake of new vehicle technologies with high safety potential.
- Strengthen speed compliance provisions in the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL).
- Implement measures to improve heavy vehicle roadworthiness.
- Implement programmes to build community understanding and support for effective speed management measures.
- Expand the application of lower speed limits in areas with high pedestrian and cyclist usage.
- Continue to review and adjust alcohol interlock programmes to improve their effectiveness in addressing convicted drink driving offenders.
- Strengthen national police enforcement operations to improve road safety compliance.
- Establish an operational framework to enable the introduction and operation of Cooperative Intelligent Transport System (C-ITS) safety applications in Australia.
- Implement and promote a range of Safe System demonstration projects in urban settings, with a focus on the safety of vulnerable road users.
- Encourage private sector organisations to implement best practice fleet and workplace safety policies.
- Examine and progress options to improve measurement and reporting of non-fatal and disabling injury crashes, particularly through the development of matched crash and hospital database systems.
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