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CR 100: Feasibility of occupant protection countermeasures (1992)

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Benefit cost analysis is often used in setting road safety priorities. The concept of Harm was developed for assessing injury mitigation benefits from vehicle safety improvements. This study builds upon previous work in the area.

The Effect of Visual Impairment on Driving Performance

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This study investigates how visual impairment affects driving performance and whether this can be predicted by visual testing in a clinic. Visual impairment (cataracts, visual field restriction and monocular vision) was simulated for a group of young normal subjects.

The evaluation of a program of providing a free breath test and a discounted taxi fare

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In the last four months of 1991, a street level survey was carried out in Adelaide to gauge people's attitude to a service of providing a free breath test and a discounted taxi fare.

The Systematic Trial of an Innovative Community-Based Drink Driving Rehabilitation Program

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In 1990-91 the research team received seeding funding from F.O.R.S. and the Institute of Criminology to determine whether a newly designed Corrective Services Commission Rehabilitation Program (CSCRP) was viable as an amroach to rehabilitation and in what ways it could be evaluated.

Pre-primary children's awareness and use of road safety rules

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Review of Literature—young children's characteristics and road safety preschool-based road safety education Preschool Teaching Program on Road Safety comparison of teaching methods (teacher guidance, learning centre, free play).

Predicting Young People's Traffic Risk-Taking

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In sum, the results of the three studies reported here suggest some interesting trends warranting further exploration in larger and more diverse samples of children and their parents.

The Health Risks of Long-Distance Trucking

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This is the final report of the first phase of a project which aims to enrich the understanding of factors underlying the health risks of long-distance trucking.

The attitudes of young drivers to risk taking, role modelling, drink driving and countermeasures

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This report examines youth's attitudes to drink driving, risk taking, role modelling and drink driving countermeasures. The study was conducted in Western Sydney, NSW.

CR 103: Investigation of the "Hangover" Effects of an Acute Dose of Alcohol on Psychomoter Performance (1992)

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This report presents a review of the literature and reports the results of an investigation of the acute and hangover effects of ethanol on driving related skills, as well as focussing on 'event-related potential' data recorded in a sub-group of subjects participating in the project.

CR 101: Community Attitudes to Road Safety: Community Attitudes Survey—Wave VI (1992)

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In August 1991, the sixth in a series of national surveys on community attitudes to road safety was conducted. This report contains results from Wave 6 and, where possible, comparative results since 1986.