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Webinar: Not All Roads Are Created Equal
This 40-minutes presentation on New Zealand's Speed Management Guide is by Glenn Bunting and Diane Gamble from the NZ Transport Agency.
Webinar: Older Road Users - Emerging Trends
This one-hour webinar provides an overview of the emerging trends in crash involvement among older road users, aged 75 years and over. It is presented by Dr Matthew Baldock, Deputy Director of the Centre for Automotive Safety Research at the…
Infrastructure Improvements to Reduce Motorcycle Casualties
This report presents the technical findings of a two-year study which sought to identify effective infrastructure improvements to reduce motorcycle crash risk and crash severity, based on how riders perceive, respond and react to infrastructure they…
Guidance on Median and Centreline Treatments to Reduce Head-on Casualties
This report presents a compendium of local and overseas practice and experience in minimising the risk and severity of head-on crashes. It is intended to assist road safety practitioners identify effective actions that can be taken to reduce the…
Safe System Roads for Local Government
Australian and New Zealand local governments manage extensive road networks. Previous reporting indicates local government-managed roads represent 82 and 88% of the length of all public roads in both countries, respectively. As local roads, they…
Safety of Disadvantaged Road Users
This publication reports the literature review and statistical analysis stages of a project to investigate the relationship between disadvantage and road casualties.
Achieving Safe System Speeds on Urban Arterial Roads: Compendium of Good Practice
This compendium presents information on speed as a contributor to urban arterial road crashes. It provides information on treatments that can be used to address speed at intersections and midblock locations.
Community Road Safety in Australia and New Zealand
There has been a considerable growth in interest in Community Road Safety in recent years, both on the part of central authorities which have an interest in reducing the road toll and on the part of local communities and their governments. This…
Reducing Collisions at Passive Railway Level Crossings in Australia
This report examines safety at passive railway crossings in Australia, in response to a request from the Australian Transport Council. It is estimated that there are 6,000 railway crossings in Australia without active systems to signal the approach…
Frangible Sign Supports: Part 1 - Recommended Procedures for Design, Testing, Installation and Maintenance
This report, the primary output from Austroads project N.RS.9810 "Standards for Frangible Sign Supports", aims to present uniform guidelines for the verification of the frangibility of sign post structures utilised within Australia. The document…