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Safety
Objective
To assist road and transport agencies in their efforts to improve road safety.
Austroads has recognised the importance of maintaining a minimum level of technical research capacity within Australia, across key research areas, so it can be available to meet future requirements of road agencies. Austroads has therefore committed to support research by ARRB Group in four identified areas to retain relevant expertise, both through the retention of existing skilled staff and the recruitment of new staff to develop appropriate skills.
The four identified areas are:
- bituminous surfacings
- pavement structures
- asset management
- engineering safety.
Key themes
Safe system – framework for action
Key elements of safe system:
Task force and review panel
The role of the safety task force is to develop and deliver a program of research that will assist road and transport agencies in their efforts to improve road safety, and as a review panel to develop the Austroads Guide to Road Safety. The task force also engages with the national road safety strategy panel.
Contact details
Program Manager:
Jon Douglas
Director (Traffic Engineering and Road Safety)
Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads
Program Support:
Philip Rankine
Principal Advisor (Austroads)
Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads
GPO Box 1412
Brisbane Qld 4001
Phone: +61 7 3715 8905
Fax: +61 7 3834 2998
Email: phil.w.rankine@tmr.qld.gov.au
Approved Projects
| Number |
Title |
| SS1384 |
Traffic Management and Infrastructure: Lessons from In-depth Crash Investigation |
| SS1385 |
Medical conditions as a factor in crash causation |
| SS1421 |
Nature of Errors Made by Drivers |
| SS1494 |
Road crash injuries – cost and prevention |
| SS1570 |
The impact of changes in the Australian vehicle fleet on crashworthiness and crash outcomes |
| SS1572 |
Improving older driver safety |
| SS1573 |
Speed enforcement - national survey of driver attitudes |
| SS1579 |
Safe system demonstration project involving an Indigenous community |
| SS1649 |
Best practice in point to point speed enforcement |
| SS1650 |
Providing for road user error in the safe system |
| ST1426 |
Methods to Achieve Overall Reductions in Operating Speeds in Rural Areas |
| ST1427 |
Improving Roadside Safety |
| ST1428 |
Road Safety Risk Assessment – Dissemination of Research Findings, and Updating of Crash Data Bases and Crash Reduction Factors |
| ST1429 |
Safe Intersection Approach Treatments and Safer Speeds Through Intersections |
| ST1430 |
Improving Safety of Heavy Vehicles in Urban Areas – Stage 1 |
| ST1434 |
Road Safety Audit and Road Safety Engineering Toolkit – Site Maintenance |
| ST1498 |
Road Safety Audit Toolkit - further development |
| ST1500 |
Road safety engineering measures to address fatigue (Follows on from ST1347) |
| ST1571 |
National Risk Assessment Model, Program Development and Trials (SSWG project) |
| ST1647 |
Safety, operational and environmental impacts of reduced speed limits |
| ST1651 |
Impact of roadside advertising on road safety |
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