Road Safety Publications

CR 127: The Speed Review: Road Environment, Behaviour, Speed Limits, Enforcement and Crashes (1993)

A study was undertaken to review the role of vehicle speed in road crashes, speed limits, enforcement and behaviour, and the environment. A review of the international literature was initially carried out to highlight overseas findings and issues identified for further research and development.

CR 118: Road Safety Mass Media Campaigns: A Meta Analysis (1993)

This report details the use of a scientific approach to synthesise the results of a large number (87) of evaluated road safety mass media campaigns.

MR 12: Estimation of Truncated Ordinal Regression Models (1993)

This report discusses the implementation of a new procedure called Truncated Ordinal Regression (TOR). The technique is more general and efficient than the existing methods. It allows for an ordinal scale of injury such as uninjured, severe injury, dead.

CR 122: Strategies to Combat Fatigue in the Long Distance Road Transport Industry. The Bus and Coach Perspective (1993)

This report aims to identify effective and practicable strategies to reduce driver fatigue in the long distance bus and coach industry.

CR 113: Trends in Road Crash Fatality Rates, Australia 1970–1990 (1993)

This report describes and analyses temporal changes in fatalities per population between 1970 and 1990 in Australia.

CR 115: Trends in Road Crash Fatality Rates Summary Report: Australia 1970–1990 (1993)

Australia has seen a substantial and sustained reduction in road crash fatality rates between 1970 and 1990. This report describes and analyses the changes in road fatality rates in Australia.

CR 120: Development of Data Collection Methodology: Crashes Resulting in Hospitalisation and Casualty Crashes not Resulting in Hospitalisation (1993)

This report examines current casualty crash data collections and makes recommendations for improved data collection methodologies for crashes resulting in hospitalisation and casualty crashes not resulting in hospitalisation.

CR 116: Pilot Study of the Long Term effects of Road Crashes (1993)

This pilot study was undertaken to identify the types of long-term consequences to people involved in road trauma, comprising physical, psychological and social disabilities, impairments, as well as community and financial hardships.

CR 119: Description of Fatal Crashes Involving Various Causal Variables (1993)

This report comprises quantitative analyses of the 1988 FORS Fatality File and reviews of original documentation to provide descriptions of the role of the following causal variables in fatal crashes: fatigue, speeding, alcohol (>.05 and less than .15, >.15), young (17-20 and 21-25) and eld

Elderly Drivers and Visual Impairment

Older drivers comprise the fastest growing sector of the driving population and have been reported to have more traffic convictions and accidents per kilometre driven than any other age group.