Despite the existence of many effective interventions, more than 1.3 million people worldwide die from road traffic injuries. Another 20 to 50 million suffer serious injuries. Many, if not most...
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After six consecutive years of reductions, the NSW road toll for 2009 increased by more than 20% on the previous year, although gains in NSW remain ahead of the slight...
- Article Type 2: Contributed articlesThis paper proposes a set of new principles for setting speed limits based on harm minimisation, the cornerstone of the Safe System approach. The Safe System approach seeks to develop...
- Article Type 2: Contributed articlesRoad trauma is one of the major public health problems facing this country. Last year 1,509 people died on our roads. The Bureau of Infrastructure Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE)...
- Article Type 2: Contributed articlesIn March this year, Transport Minister Steven Joyce launched a new strategy for reducing the impact of road crashes over the next decade. Safer journeys: New Zealand’s road safety strategy...
- Article Type 2: Contributed articlesAustralia is not meeting national road safety targets, national progress in reducing road trauma over recent years has been much slower than was originally projected, and we face a challenging...
Collisions between vehicles and pedestrians represent a significant road safety problem and are overrepresented at night-time, with pedestrians being up to seven times more likely to be involved in a...
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Recently College President Lauchlan McIntosh met with DrinkWise Australia to discuss areas of mutual interest and a potential partnership. DrinkWise is a not-for-profit research and social change agency that is...
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The aim of this paper is to evaluate the safety performances of unsignalised Seagull T-junction configuration on high speed rural roads in NSW. The findings were that two types of...
- Article Type 1: Peer-reviewed papersThis paper reports on the performance of a wire rope barrier on a narrow median installation on Centennial Highway, New Zealand. Since the time the speed limit was reduced from...
- Article Type 1: Peer-reviewed papersThis literature review examines the relationship between traffic lane widths on the safety of road users. It focuses on the impacts of lane widths on motor vehicle behaviour and cyclists’...
- Article Type 1: Peer-reviewed papersSince the early 1970s, in an effort to improve road safety, Australian railway authorities have made a concerted effort to reduce the number of level road-rail crossings, particularly those controlled...
- Article Type 1: Peer-reviewed papersThis paper analyses examples of road signage and billboard advertising along the M1 Motorway between the Gold Coast and Brisbane from a pragmatic visual communication perspective. Such a perspective requires...
- Article Type 1: Peer-reviewed papersThe aim of this paper is to review the potential of work-related road safety as a conduit for community road safety based on research and practical experience. It covers the...