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  • Speed and speeding
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  • Older drivers
  • Young drivers
  • Motorcyclists
  • Cyclists
  • Pedestrians
  • Heavy vehicle safety
  • Public transport users
  • Sharing the road
  • Country road users
• Safer vehicles
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Speed and speeding

Speeding and inappropriate travel speeds directly contribute to at least 30 per cent of deaths on Victoria’s roads each year. The First Action Plan introduces new public education campaigns and tougher enforcement activities to reduce the incidence of speeding and the number of fatalities and serious injuries caused by speeding on Victoria’s roads.

Area of action	Actions
Public education	Undertake media and targeted campaigns to: increase road user understanding of how and why speed limits are set encourage travel speeds that are appropriate to the conditions, not necessarily the posted speed limit raise awareness of Victoria Police enforcement activities encourage consumer take up of vehicles with intelligent speed assist (ISA) and top speed limiting ignition systems.
Enforcement	Improve road user compliance with speed limits by: targeting heavy vehicle speed limiter compliance targeting high crash risk locations through increased use of marked and unmarked police patrols introducing new technology in police vehicles to detect speeding vehicles (on-coming and following) while the police vehicle is in motion. Review and consider potential new speed management technologies. Implement police vehicle video technology to record speeding behaviour and assist enforcement. Redeploy existing cameras to emerging high risk locations to ensure maximum benefit from available camera technology.
Infrastructure	Increase the conspicuousness of speed zones. Expand the use of specific speed zones (such as 40 km shopping strips) to protect vulnerable road users such as pedestrians. Install electronic speed limit signs at selected sites around schools. Undertake trials of electronic warning signs at hazardous locations.
Technology	Implement systems that will allow intelligent speed assist technology to function across Victoria. Intelligent speed assist (ISA) automatically warns a driver when they intentionally or inadvertently travel over the speed limit.  Most ISA systems establish the position of the vehicle on the road, and compares the current speed of the vehicle with the speed limit at that location.  The system then issues audible and visual warnings if the vehicle exceeds this limit.
Legislation	Review penalties for speeding to ensure that penalties more accurately reflect the risk to the community (such as tougher penalties for repeat speeding offenders) and ensure that the sole objective of these penalties is aimed at, and is recognised by the community as, achieving improved road safety. Review the Road Safety Act and Regulations to simplify and clarify road safety laws. Implement a trial of a driver general road safety awareness course that would remove three demerit points from a driver’s licence. Attendance would be by application when a driver reached eight demerit points; course could only be accessed once every three years. Implement a trial of a scheme that would enable drivers to cancel demerit points for speed offences through voluntary installation of an intelligent speed assist (ISA) system in their vehicle at the driver's own cost.  Fitment of the ISA would not remove future demerit points for speed offences
Research and data	Undertake research to increase understanding of road user perceptions of speeding and the speed/crash risk in order to develop effective behaviour change initiatives. Develop a global positioning system (GPS) based speed and hazard zone mapping system to integrate with intelligent speed assist systems.