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CR 77: Evaluation of the pre-licence motorcycle training course at the New South Wales Traffic Education Centre (1988)

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The development and implementation of the Pre-Licence Motorcycle Training Course at the NSW Traffic Education Centre was reviewed.

CR 72: Driver fatigue, concepts, measurement and crash countermeasures (1988)

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his report addresses the topic of driver fatigue, an issue that is receiving increasing attention in the road safety field.

CR 74: Community attitudes to road safety, community attitudes survey Wave III (1988)

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AGB: McNair was commissioned by FORS to conduct Wave 3 of a national survey on community attitudes to road safety. This report contains results from Wave 3, and where possible comparative results since 1986.

CR 75: An analysis of the relationship between road improvements and road safety (1988)

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The report identifies aggregations of crashes by location (black spot), or by other common characteristics.

CR 71: Road safety benefits from rural road improvements (1988)

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This report describes the results of a literature review undertaken to determine the cost-effectiveness of a range of safety improvements for rural roads.

OR 10: Vehicle Occupant Protection in Australia

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Four important features were pre-requisites for the success of compulsory restraint wearing in Australia.

CR 63: Out and About pre-school children's road safety campaign evaluation (1988)

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The Federal Office of Road Safety has produced a pre-primary schools version of the road safety education resource material “Out and About”.

CR 64: Study of head injuries in children (1988)

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The literature describing the biomechanical response of children to impact is reviewed. The results of a computer simulation of a real child pedestrian impact using the computer program MADYMO are presented.

CR 69: Day to day travel in Australia, 1985–86 (1988)

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This report tabulates day-to-day travel of Australians in 1985-85. The number of trips, the distance travelled and the time spent travelling are classified by mode of travel, sex of the trip maker and several other factors.

CR 62: Attitudes of truck drivers and operators (1988)

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As part of an evaluation of a national increase in the heavy vehicle speed limit to 90 km/h from 1 January 1987, an attitude survey of 453 drivers and 90 operators of heavy vehicles was undertaken in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland in June and July 1987.