Road Safety Publications

Predicting Young People's Traffic Risk-Taking

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

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

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)

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)

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.

CR 99: Long distance truck drivers: on-road performance and economic reward (1991)

This study was undertaken to explore the underlying factors influencing the on-road behaviour of long distance truck drivers. A survey of 820 long distance truck drivers was conducted to collect the data for the study.

CR 94: Survey of driving by disqualified and suspended drivers in Western Australia (1991)

A survey was conducted of 1,313 Western Australian drivers to determine the extent of driving by persons who had had their driver's licence disqualified or suspended.

CR 98: Neighbourhood road safety and amenity: a look at barriers to the implementation of local area traffic management schemes and strategies to overcome these (1991)

The project had two aims: to provide an information base on attitudes and other barriers to the implementation of speed control and LATM schemes in Western Sydney which the Office of Road Safety and other authorities can use in promoting such schemes; to disseminate information on relevant resear

CR 95: Passenger cars and occupant injuries (1991)

This project was undertaken to evaluate the level of protection afforded occupants of current generation passenger cars available on the Australian market and to provide directions for future improvements in occupant protection.

CR 96: Characteristics of seat belt non-wearers (1991)

Observations of seat belt usage and interviews of seat belt non-wearers were conducted in fourteen rural towns in New South Wales, Victoria and the Northern Territory. In general, the study concludes that seat belt wearing rates have increased significantly in recent years.