Disabled Driver Questionnaire
We want to produce a driver information programme for our disabled customers. To help us produce the best possible guidance, please take a few minutes to fill in our questionnaire.
Better information for your journey
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Driver Information Programmes
Driver Information Programmes
Our research shows that accidents and unplanned incidents cause up to 25% of delays on the strategic road network.
Reducing accidents and the disruption they cause, and helping drivers to avoid delays when they occur, will have a major impact on journey reliability, as well and preventing injuries and saving lives.
We need to bring down the number of casualties on our roads. Our roads are among the safest in the world but despite this 376 people were killed on them in 2006.
We have identified the 10 groups of customers who use our road network and looked at how to communicate directly with each of them.
The Driver Information Programmes (DIPs) are, primarily, targeted at the four driver groups who are, statistically, most at risk on our motorways and major A roads. However as we learn of new issues, we develop new DIPs offering advice to drivers across these varied topics.
- Young drivers aged 16 - 19
- Motorcyclists
- Commercial Vehicles (i.e. HGV/LGV) drivers
- Drivers on Business
- Motorway Driving
- Female Drivers
- Are You Safely Fitted?
- Are you Fit to Tow?
We believe that behaviour change in these target groups of road users would help to reduce accidents, injuries and deaths on the strategic road network.
We also believe that an innovative and specifically targeted approach is required for each of these traditionally hard to influence groups.
See the links in the right hand menu on this page to learn more about how we will work with our customers to reduce accidents.
The Strategic Safety Action Plan (SSAP)
This document summarises how we aim to achieve our Public Service Agreement target to reduce the number of casualties on our network by 2010.
It highlights 23 key actions that challenge us to look beyond traditional engineering solutions and to look to educate drivers and riders as well as using closer partnership working to better communicate with our customers.
It also introduces the Area Safety Action Plan which allows each of our Area Performance Teams to recognise their own casualty targets and to work at local level with partners and customers to reduce casualties in their area.
The DIPs toolkit will be available to all our Area teams so they can work with local partners to disseminate the programmes to our customers.
We have an extensive list of partners created at national level, (available on the “Partners” page - see right hand menu), that Area Teams can tap into to build local links.
