Road Safety Publications

Padding in Buses to Reduce the Severity of Non-Lethal Injuries in Low Impact Crashes

When buses and automobiles are involved in a collision or emergency braking, many injuries that may occur can be attributed to passenger impact with unpadded or inadequately padded structures such as steel seat framing and stanchions.

Trends in road fatalities

Looks at trends in road fatalities and fatality rates in Australia and the States and Territories.

Traffic Engineering Road Safety: A Practitioners Guide to Best Practice

This report is intended to assist those with the responsibility for traffic engineering and road safety by providing a ready source of information, with guidelines for action and information.

The Exposure of Children to Traffic in Melbourne

Although pedestrian injury is a major cause of childhood morbidity and mortality, little is known about the determinants of child pedestrian injury rates. In particular we lack reliable measures of children's exposure to traffic.

A Review of Statistical Methods for Road Traffic Accident Data

This Review considers statistical techniques that can be applied to data from mass road traffic databases, concentrating on approaches which do not require ancillary information to the database.

National Fleet Safety Database

Fleet vehicle managers in Australia presently lack a reliable benchmark database on the performance of their fleet drivers, vehicles and their different environments.

Trends in fatal crashes on rural roads

Looks at the factors involved in fatal crashes on rural roads in Australia.

CR 144: Strategies to Combat Fatigue in the Long Distance Road Transport Industry: Stage 2 Evaluation of Alternative Work Practices (1995)

In this study measurements of a range of indicators of fatigue were collected on long distance truck drivers undertaking a 10-12 hour journey under different operational conditions.

CR 158: Strategies to Combat Fatigue in the Long Distance Road Transport Industry: Stage 2 Evaluation of Two-Up Driving (1994)

The aim of the present study was to investigate the impact of two-up driving on driver fatigue by comparing it to the major operational alternative, single driving.

CR 147: A Review of Statistical Methods for Road Traffic Accident Mass Databases (1994)

This Review considers statistical techniques that can be applied to data from mass road traffic databases, concentrating on approaches which do not require ancillary information to the database.