Welcome to RoadWise

For more than 25 years, RoadWise has worked in collaboration with road safety partners to identify and address local road safety issues.

Through the support of a team of road safety advisors, policy and project officers, WALGA's RoadWise has a well-established RoadWise road safety network of more than 6,000 individuals and 63 local road safety committees, spread across the 11 regions of the state.

This includes direct regular contact and positive working relationships with Local Governments, government agencies and non-government organisations as well as local business and community groups.

This network is involved in the planning, development and implementation of a wide range of projects, initiatives and actions tailored to address road safety issues in their own communities.

Working with Local Government

RoadWise is uniquely placed to work closely with Local Governments to influence and support the implementation of best practice road safety. As system designers within the safe system framework, Local Governments have a strategic and operational road safety role as road managers, planning authorities and fleet managers, in addition to their community development and leadership roles.

Collectively, Local Governments manage 88% of the WA road network, where almost 60 per cent of serious crashes occur. Therefore, Local Governments are well positioned to have influence over road safety through their responsibilities as a road and planning authority, an employer, fleet operator and through community leadership.

As a part of WALGA, RoadWise is uniquely placed to:

• engage Local Governments in strategic and sustainable initiatives to ingrain or mainstream the safe system approach,
• inform, facilitate and mobilise community action for road safety, and
• foster and support collaborative partnerships to improve road safety in metropolitan, rural, remote communities across the state.

More Information

Contact your Regional Road Safety Advisor to discuss how your organisation can work with WALGA's RoadWise to prevent road trauma, by adopting safe system policy and practice.

RoadWise is supported by Local Government and is funded by the WA State Government through the Road Trauma Trust Account and the State Road Funds to Local Government Agreement.