The level of understanding of the risks associated with speed and speeding is increasing. However, this is not fully reflected in the implementation of speed reduction measures nor in an...
Article Type 1: Peer-reviewed papers
Article Type 1: Peer-reviewed papers
In Australia, speeding remains a substantial contributor to road trauma. The National Road Safety Strategy (NRSS) 2011-2020 highlighted the need to harness community support for current and future speed management...
- Article Type 1: Peer-reviewed papersThe optimum speed is one which minimises the total social costs of the impacts of speed, including the costs of road trauma, travel time, air pollution emissions, noise and vehicle...
- Article Type 2: Contributed articlesCompliance with speed limits among vehicle operators, and attitudes towards speeding behaviour, do not appear to have changed significantly in Victoria over the last eight or nine years. Contrary to...
- Article Type 2: Contributed articlesNew Zealand traffic accident data show that motorcycles account for 13% of road crash fatalities but that motorcyclists undertake only around 0.5% of travel time or trips. From these statistics,...
- Article Type 1: Peer-reviewed papersAll drivers have to be prepared for driving with changed conditions, either intrinsic or external to the vehicle. This study explores factors influencing the cautiousness while driving of high school...
Rates of bicycle commuting currently hover around 1 - 2% in most Australian capital cities, although 17.8% of Australians report riding at least once per week. The most commonly stated...
Article Type 1: Peer-reviewed papers
Run-off-road crashes represent half of all fatal crashes in rural Victoria and many of these crashes involve collisions with fixed roadside objects. Wire rope barriers are proving to be highly...
Article Type 1: Peer-reviewed papers
The findings presented in this paper are based on Austroads-funded investigations of the in-service effectiveness of safety barriers on high-speed roads (that is, roads with 100 and 110 km/h speed...
- Article Type 2: Contributed articlesThis article will explain the travel skills used by vision-impaired pedestrians. It is based on my personal experience working and walking alongside people who are blind or have low vision....