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Publications

CR 122: Strategies to Combat Fatigue in the Long Distance Road Transport Industry. The Bus and Coach Perspective (1993)

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This report aims to identify effective and practicable strategies to reduce driver fatigue in the long distance bus and coach industry.

CR 113: Trends in Road Crash Fatality Rates, Australia 1970–1990 (1993)

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This report describes and analyses temporal changes in fatalities per population between 1970 and 1990 in Australia.

CR 115: Trends in Road Crash Fatality Rates Summary Report: Australia 1970–1990 (1993)

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Australia has seen a substantial and sustained reduction in road crash fatality rates between 1970 and 1990. This report describes and analyses the changes in road fatality rates in Australia.

CR 120: Development of Data Collection Methodology: Crashes Resulting in Hospitalisation and Casualty Crashes not Resulting in Hospitalisation (1993)

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This report examines current casualty crash data collections and makes recommendations for improved data collection methodologies for crashes resulting in hospitalisation and casualty crashes not resulting in hospitalisation.

CR 116: Pilot Study of the Long Term effects of Road Crashes (1993)

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This pilot study was undertaken to identify the types of long-term consequences to people involved in road trauma, comprising physical, psychological and social disabilities, impairments, as well as community and financial hardships.

CR 119: Description of Fatal Crashes Involving Various Causal Variables (1993)

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This report comprises quantitative analyses of the 1988 FORS Fatality File and reviews of original documentation to provide descriptions of the role of the following causal variables in fatal crashes: fatigue, speeding, alcohol (>.05 and less than .15, >.15), young (17-20 and 21-25) and eld

Elderly Drivers and Visual Impairment

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Older drivers comprise the fastest growing sector of the driving population and have been reported to have more traffic convictions and accidents per kilometre driven than any other age group.

Optimism Bias, Risk Utility and Risk Taking on the Road

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The aims of the study were to determine the role of optimism bias and risk utility in risk taking on the road, test the egocentrism account of optimism bias and the effects of vehicle insurance on optimism bias.

Factors Involved in the Long-Term Benefits of Random Breath Testing in NSW

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This study investigated the long term effects of Random Breath Testing (RBT) on NSW driver's attitudes, knowledge, and self-reported behaviour towards drink-driving.

Can We Access What Australians Are Willing to Pay for Road Safety?

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Road crashes are an avoidable cause of premature mortaIity and morbidity. Strategies to reduce the number of crashes are often subject to cost-benefit analyses in order to determine where scarce resources are best spent.