Road Safety Publications

CR 39: Human factors and road crashes: A review of their relationship (1985)

Research findings within each of the major 'human factor' areas of road safety research are reviewed. Attention is confined to research relevant to the prevention of road crashes rather than to the amelioration of their effects.

CR 38: Hazardous road locations: procedural guidelines (1985)

This project was commissioned to determine a practical and effective procedurefor identifying and ranking of hazardous road locations.

CR 37: Hazardous road locations: final report (1985)

This project was commissioned to determine a practical and effective procedure for the identification and ranking of hazardous road locations throughout Australia.

CR 35: Bicycle crashes in the ACT (1985)

This retrospective study focussed on bicycle crashes which resulted in admission to hospitals in the Australian Capital Territory between July 1979 and June 1983. Hospital in-patient morbidity statistics were supplemented by information from a mailed questionnaire and police accident reports.

OR 2: Fitting and Wearing of Seat Belts in Australia: The History of a Successful Countermeasure

From 1925 when road accident data for Australia were first published till 1979, over 100, 000 road users were killed and 2.2 mlllion injured. Nevertheless, motor vehicle travel is much safer today than it was fifty pears ago.

CR 54: Speed perception 1 Drivers—judgements of safety and speed on urban and rural straight roads (1987)

This project was undertaken to evaluate the role of the type of road and road width, roadside development, travel speed, driving experience and the sex of the driver on estimates of safety and travel speed.

CR 33: Town planning and road safety (1984)

This is the final report of a project (IRRD No. 605759) which involved a critical review of Australian and overseas urban planning practice aimed at road safety improvements, based on direct contact with urban local government authorities and planning bodies and an extensive literature search.

CR 34: Motorcycle rider skills assessment (1983)

To determine the differences between the control strategiesof skilled and less-skilled riders as they control the lateral and longitudinal motion of a motorcycle, a study motorcycle handling skills and their assessment was carried out.

CR 22: Evaluation of the effectiveness of MITERS type projects

This report describes the results of an evaluation of minor traffic engineering projects carried out in South Australia and Western Australia during the period 1974 to 1980.

CR 31: Legal implications of frangible poles (1984)

The legal implications of the use of frangible or break-away poles is investigated. It is concluded that road authorities that use frangible poles will not normally be held liable to persons injured by them.