Road Safety Publications

Community Attitudes to Road Safety—2025 survey report

The Community Attitudes to Road Safety 2025 Survey (CAS) Report is a long-running national survey series that provides a longitudinal evidence-based on Australian community attitudes, perceptions and behaviours relating to road safety.

CR 36: Children and road accidents (1985)

Road crashes involving children are examined in detail for the three most populous Australian states for the years 1981 and 1982. Individual crash records are analysed in depth, as well as mass data systems.

2018 E-Survey of Road users' Attitudes - Australia fact sheet

The E-Survey of Road users’ Attitudes (ESRA) project is a joint initiative of road safety institutes, research centres, government departments and private sponsors from all over the world. The aim is to collect and analyse comparable data on road safety culture and behaviours.

2016 E-Survey of Road users' Attitudes - Australia fact sheet

The E-Survey of Road users' Attitudes (ESRA) project is a joint initiative of research institutes in 25 countries collecting comparable national data on road users' opinions, attitudes and self-reported behaviour with respect to road traffic risks.

Australia's Second Generational Approach to Roadside Drug Testing

In October 2018, the Transport and Infrastructure Senior Officials’ Committee endorsed the National Drug Driving Working Group report - Australia’s Second Generational Approach to Roadside Drug Testing. The report found that Australia is the world leader in drug driving enforcement and

Community Attitudes to Road Safety—2017 survey report

This report documents the findings from the Australian Government Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities’ 2017 survey of community attitudes to road safety.

Roadside Drug Testing Scoping Study

A national scoping study into roadside drug testing across Australia has been completed.

Scoping Study of Mobile Phone use while driving

A national scoping study into mobile phone use while driving across Australia has been completed and the report can be downloaded from the link below.

Community Attitudes to Road Safety—2013 survey report

This report documents the findings from the Department's 2013 survey of community attitudes to road safety. The twenty-third in a series of national surveys on community attitudes to road safety was conducted in October and November 2013.

Driveway Safety: Are your kids at risk?

Many small children, particularly toddlers, are run over in home driveways. This brochure provides advice about keeping children safe around vehicles at home.