YEARBOOK PRIIT SAUK, Director General, Road Administration Dear yearbook readers, The mission of the Road Administration is to develop a safe, functioning and economic traffic environment. The 101st year in the history of the Road Administration passed in an instant and was very busy for all employees and officials. There is reason to be proud of our achievements, but we are also apprehensive ADMINISTRATION ROAD about the future. Many thanks to every colleague and partner as well as every client for their commitment! It has been a year of stable work. 2019 was antee the people of Saaremaa a bigger and In addition to structural changes, the cooper- historically the best year in terms of the mon- more comfortable aircraft for connection ation between divisions and departments still etary volume of the preservation and repair with the continent. requires some practice and the review and of public roads. In total, we used 149 million specification of some processes. Fortunately, euros for the preservation and 83.4 million 2019 can be considered a breakthrough year customer-focused thinking, describing ser- euros for the development of the road net- in the development of the organisation. As vices on the basis of process management work. The yearbook also gives information we are preparing the next step on the road principles and constant improvement are on the number of kilometres covered by the to becoming the Mobility Administration or coded into the DNA of the Road Administra- works and the most exciting objects. the Transport Administration, we carried tion. Service owners have mostly understood out a significant structural reform as of 1 their roles and we’re improving and optimising The satisfaction of the customers of our May 2019. The three whales on which we the services in addition to describing them. service bureaus remains extremely high. now rely in our activities are the Strategic We analyse the costs of services and look for The satisfaction of drivers with road main- Planning Division, the Division of Road Con- innovation and efficiency in everything. tenance has improved in comparison with struction and Maintenance and the Traffic previous years. The clients of the public ser- Division. At the end of the year, the analysis work- vices provided by the Road Administration ing groups were launched once again with a are increasingly using the online self-service The two new divisions are managed by ambi- directive of the minister in order to consider environments. Efficient public administra- tious young men – Director of Strategic how investments in various types of trans- tion as well as fast and convenient public ser- Planning Martin Lengi and Dirtector of Road port in Estonia should be planned in the vices are the result of our long-term develop- Maintenance Raido Randmaa. Experienced future and how to perform the routine man- ment activities. manager Meelis Telliskivi will continue man- agement of various infrastructure objects or aging the division with the biggest number of the network. The number of people using regular bus ser- employees as the Traffic Director. vices in counties has strongly increased, and The result of the work of several working the constantly growing demand for connec- Concentrating the state supervision activi- groups was formulated into a proposal in tion with large islands has led to discussions ties previously performed in several depart- February 2020 and it was suggested to the of the need to order another ferry. Unfortu- ments into the Supervision Centre under the Government of the Republic that a Mobility nately, the Saaremaa flight procurement is Legal Department was an important step in Administration be established on the basis still ongoing and the awarding of a new con- the reform. We rethought the principles of of the Road Administration, the Maritime tract is delayed by numerous public procure- state supervision, assessed the importance Administration and the Civil Aviation Admin- ment disputes. However, we hope to award of various supervision activities and agreed istration. The goal is to launch the new admin- the new contract in 2020, which would guar- on the focus topics for 2020. istration on 1 January 2021. YEARBOOK 2019 1 There are certainly people who have doubts the Government of the Republic could rely about the necessity and success of the on them and make an informed and justified merger. However, a similar process has been decision – to start preparing and organising completed in nine smaller European Union the procurement required for implementa- Member States, especially in the Nordic tion of the pilot project. countries. Once again, we took a closer look at the experience of the Nordic countries, Another exciting task of the Road Adminis- especially our neighbour Finland. We have to tration for 2020 is to develop the concept for admit that similar changes were made in Fin- the “Recording and Warning System of the land 10 years ago. Road Behaviour of Motor Vehicle Drivers”. As a result of several serious road accidents, The Government of the Republic that the Traffic Committee of the Government of stepped into office in spring 2019 has come the Republic set the Road Administration the up with many new ideas in the area of pub- goal to be prepared to introduce a general lic road maintenance and development. The concept in the Traffic Committee in June and Road Maintenance Plan for 2020-2030 was if it is approved, immediately start working approved on 9 January 2020 and above all, on the necessary legislative drafting. we received clearer goals for 2020-2023. This year, the focus is on continuing the The idea of a permanent connection with development of the Võõbu-Mäo 2+2 road isles of Muhu and Saaremaa is on the table section of the Tallinn-Tartu highway. again. The Road Administration ordered a study of the opinion of the residents One of the priorities of the government’s of Saaremaa, Muhumaa and Lääneranna action programme is to cover considerably Municipality on the establishment of a per- more gravel roads with dust-free surfacing manent connection. 60% of the residents (all gravel roads used by more than 50 vehi- of Saaremaa and Lääneranna Municipality cles per day on average by 2030). The goal and 40% of the residents of Muhumaa were in 2020 is to make three times more roads in favour of the permanent connection. The dust-free than in 2019. No additional funds government is now considering the initiation were allocated for this purpose, but pri- of a special plan as a precondition necessary orities were reset on the account of other for the establishment of a permanent con- measures in the Road Maintenance Plan so nection. We hope that the special plan will be that, for example, there will be fewer road initiated in 2020. reconstruction projects in the coming years. The cooperation agreement with Rail Baltic The other important goal in the government Estonia and RBR is certainly worth a men- programme is the construction of a safe 2+2 tion – we agreed that the Road Administra- solution for all three main highways. This is tion will carry out the public procurement a very ambitious goal in the opinion of the for the construction of 17 viaducts on the ROAD ADMINISTRATION ROAD Road Administration, which would need ca crossings of the main track of Rail Baltic with 1.7-2.0 billion euros and would realistically public roads from 2020-2022. The funding take up to 15 years. Four million euros have will be provided by the Rail Baltic project been allocated for the preparation of build- and the total amount is ca 60 million euros. ing 2+2 main roads in 2020 in the approved The establishment of the first viaduct at Sau- Road Maintenance Plan. We hope that the stinõmme on Tallinn Ring Road started in funds required for the preparation of this 2019, when the cornerstone of Rail Baltic as significant goal in the development of main a whole was also symbolically laid in the pillar roads will be allocated at least for the next of the viaduct. 10 years, and the possibilities of funding the Major projects important to the state of construction will become clear in the next Estonia will also be established in 2020 and years. beyond. You will be able to read more about them in our next yearbooks. PPP or public-private partnership has been the magic expression on everyone’s lips since Best regards to all! autumn 2019. According to the Ministry of Finance, private investors are probably prepared to invest for the long term in infra- structure facilities, including road construc- tion projects, that are important to the state. This would accelerate possible investments in the development of our road network and earn them long-term income. A specific pilot project on the Libatse-Nurme road section has been selected for this and various anal- yses have been initiated to assess the neces- sity and feasibility of the project, the state’s repayment capacity, etc. We hope to com- plete the analyses by summer 2020 so that 2 YEARBOOK 2019 CONTENTS 1 Address of the Director General 4 About the Road Administration 6 Existing roads 8 Strategic Planning Division 10 Environmental measures 11 Elimination of accident blackspots 12 Speeds in built-up areas 13 Development of methodology for determination of speed limits 14 Traffic Accident Database 14 Vision Zero 15 Road Safety Programme 2016-2025 16 Serious Road Accident Investigation Committee 18 Research of attitudes and behaviour of road users 20 ITS projects 20 Mobility Plan 21 Road Maintenance Division 23 Maintenance of public roads 24 Traffic management research ADMINISTRATION ROAD 26 Selection of the most important sites of the Road Administration in 2019 30 Microsurfacing 30 Implementation of InfraBIM in road construction 31 Pilot project of supervision in Pärnu 32 Traffic Management Centre 33 Traffic counting 33 Speed cameras 33 Competition of professional service car drivers in Särevere 34 The best of the Road Maintenance Division 36 Traffic Division 37 Motor vehicle inspection 38 Public transport 40 Customer service 42 Tests 44 Prevention 46 Road safety campaigns 48 Estonian Road Museum 50 Deeds and People of the Year 52 Aadu Lass Award Photos: Sten Roosvald pp 1-3, 6-9, 13, 16-18, 34-39, 42-44; Edmond Mäll p 14.