Publications

This report summarises the findings of a three-year study which reviewed the safety performance of selected road infrastructure elements and provided solutions that were more closely aligned with the Safe System ideal.

Motorcyclists represent an increasing proportion of road crash casualties in NSW and Australia. This study aimed to examine the:

This in-depth crash investigation study was conducted to provide information about the causes and costs of a sample of serious (hospitalised) injury crashes in NSW.

Heavy vehicle crashes across Australia and New Zealand continue to be a major road safety issue. There are road design criteria that are not based on the requirements of heavy vehicles and the purpose of this study was to update criteria for…

This report collates research into factors contributing to the incidence and severity of rear-end crashes in urban and rural environments in Australia and New Zealand. It also identifies a number of possible pertinent mitigation measures.

This report is part of a project to determine the crash rates on different road stereotypes. It provides an analysis of all injuries from road crashes occurring in all Australian jurisdictions and New Zealand over the period 2001-2010. It explains…

This project had its origins in an earlier project which showed that crash rates increased at extremes of horizontal and vertical geometry, and were lowest with narrow sealed shoulders. This paper reports an investigation based on the original…

The state of the art in using GIS to integrate crash data with other information sources, and resources and capabilities available for this purpose in Australia and New Zealand, were established through a literature review and a series of…

Annually across Australia about 1,000 people are killed on roads in rural and remote areas, while approximately a further 26,000 people are injured. Those found to be at most risk are young male drivers, truck drivers, pedestrians and those living…

The issue of older driver crash responsibility has been explored first, through the analysis of Australian national fatality data, 1996-1999, which contain attributions of responsibility made by coroners, police or by independent data coders.…