Summary

This document provides a framework for approved tertiary institutions or other providers to prepare their own course for training road safety auditors. It provides advice on prerequisites for participants, course format, course content and means of assessment. Participants who pass the assessment will be regarded as accredited road safety auditors.

Summary

1.1 Survey Methodology and Aim

This document reports the findings from a national survey of 1,244 people aged 15 years and over, conducted in May/June 1995. The survey is the eighth in a series of similar national studies conducted since October 1986 for the ATSB Road Safety, designed to monitor key community attitudes toward road safety issues.

Summary

This report examines data relating to all car crashes occurring in Australia in 1990 where at least one occupant fatality resulted from an impact to the side of the vehicle. In total 34% of all cars with occupant fatalities sustained a side impact, with equal numbers of such impacts occurring to the driver and passenger sides. While side impacts were found to be more likely to occur in urban areas and involve a collision between vehicles at an intersection, this situation is far from typical.

Summary

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. Two general problem types are considered: estimation of the degree to which factors affect crash propensity and the evaluation of the effectiveness of factors in reducing injury outcome once the crash has occurred. In both problem types, a number of techniques are identified which promise to provide signifcant advantages over methods currently in use.

Summary

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. It is aimed especially at engineers and others with responsibility for traffic engineering and management, especially in local government or regional offices of State road and transport agencies.

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This report describes the development and implementation of a trial drink driving prevention and rehabilitation model in a rural region of Queensland. The progamme, called "Under the Limit", used an intersectoral framework for change which involved coordination and collaboration between all the major agencies who play a role in the management of the issue. It was directed towards the experiences and needs of the "at risk persons in the community", including persons convicted of drink driving offences.

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Various research techniques were used in the older driver study, including:

Summary

In 1992 a review of the level of occupant protection provided by light commercial and off-road passenger vehicles was commissioned by the Federal Office of Road Safety. This report provides the outcome of that review in general and specifically covers the FORS crash test program which was conducted as part of the standards development program to improve occupant protection provided by off-road passenger vehicles and light commercials.