Traffic Engineering Road Safety: A Practitioners Guide to Best Practice

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.

The Exposure of Children to Traffic in Melbourne

Although pedestrian injury is a major cause of childhood morbidity and mortality, little is known about the determinants of child pedestrian injury rates. In particular we lack reliable measures of children's exposure to traffic.

A Review of Statistical Methods for Road Traffic Accident Data

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.

National Fleet Safety Database

Fleet vehicle managers in Australia presently lack a reliable benchmark database on the performance of their fleet drivers, vehicles and their different environments.

Trends in fatal crashes on rural roads

Looks at the factors involved in fatal crashes on rural roads in Australia.

CR 144: Strategies to Combat Fatigue in the Long Distance Road Transport Industry: Stage 2 Evaluation of Alternative Work Practices (1995)

In this study measurements of a range of indicators of fatigue were collected on long distance truck drivers undertaking a 10-12 hour journey under different operational conditions.

CR 158: Strategies to Combat Fatigue in the Long Distance Road Transport Industry: Stage 2 Evaluation of Two-Up Driving (1994)

The aim of the present study was to investigate the impact of two-up driving on driver fatigue by comparing it to the major operational alternative, single driving.

CR 147: A Review of Statistical Methods for Road Traffic Accident Mass Databases (1994)

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.

CR 146A: Vehicle speeds and the incidence of fatal pedestrian collisions. Volume 2: Case data

The aim of this study by the NHMRC Road Accident Research Unit was to estimate the likely effect on pedestrian fatalities of a reduction in vehicle travelling speed. Results were based on detailed investigations of 176 fatal pedestrian collisions in the Adelaide area between 1983 and 1991.

CR 137: Lower Limb Injuries to Passenger Car Occupants (1994)

Lower limb injuries occur to front seat occupants in more than one in three head-on casualty crashes. A study was undertaken to determine the various types of injuries, the sources of injury inside the vehicle, and the mechanisms of injury.