Road Safety Publications

CR 167: Community Attitudes to Road Safety: Community Attitudes Survey Wave 9 (1996)

Survey Methodology and Aim

CR 168: Repeat Drink Driving Offenders in Western Australia, 1984 to 1994 (1996)

The aim of this study was to determine patterns of drink-driving arrests in Western Australia, and the characteristics of repeat drink-drivers. For the purpose of this study, drink-drivers were defined as those arrested for a drink-driving offence between 1984 and 1994.

CR 167: Community Attitudes to Road Safety: Community Attitudes Survey Wave 9 (1996)

Survey Methodology and Aim

CR 166: Pedestrian Friendly Vehicle Front Structures. A Review of the Research Literature (1996)

In 1994 more pedestrians died on Australian roads than did motorcyclists and pedal cyclists combined [did passengers in vehicles]. Attempts to reduce the number of pedestrian casualties have concentrated on preventing the collision from occurring.

Pre-ATSB (FORS) Monograph 9: Australia's Rural Road Safety Action Plan

Rural road safety is a major issue in Australia. In recent years, gains in road safety in rural areas have not matched those made in urban areas (Monograph 2, Trends in Fatal Crashes on Rural Roads).

CR 165: Benefits of a Frontal Offset Regulation (1996)

Australian vehicles are currently required to meet Australian Design Rule ADR 69 which specifies head, chest and femur dummy criteria in a dynamic full frontal crash test at 48km/h.

CR 164: Young Driver Research Program: Digest of Reports and Principal Findings of the Research (1996)

The over-involvement of young drivers in road crashes is widely understood in Australia to be a most serious and to date largely intractable road safety problem. Young people aged 15-24 make up 15% of the population but account for 31% of fatalities.

MR 13: Analysis of Improving Occupant Protection in Existing Coaches (1996)

This study was initiated to undertake a cost benefit analysis of equipping the coaches in the Australian fleet, as at 30 June 1994, with a range of occupant protection measures as outlined in the Code of Practice (Bleakly 1994). The amount of data on bus crashes in Australia is limited.

OR 19: Variation in Relative Safety of Australian Drivers with Age

This report compares the road safety performance of individual age classes of Australian drivers.

CR 153: Grouping of Fatal Pedestrian Crashes (1996)

This research developed a typology of fatal pedestrian crashes using a multivariate statistical strategy which included homogeneity analysis and k-means clustering.