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Proceedings of the Australasian road safety research, policing and education conference

Journal Volume: 10
Journal Issue:
Journal Year: 2006
Articles in SafetyLit: 73

"Sorry mate, I didn't see you". A plausible scientific explanation

'Running on empty': cultural factors and driving tired

A comparison of off-road and on-road crashes in rural and remote Queensland

A comparison of the crash involvement of unlicensed motorcycle riders and unlicensed drivers in Queensland

A study predicting self-reported crashes among fleet drivers

Amalgamation of police and hospital trauma data in the Australian Capital Territory 2002-2003

An application of the Driver Attitude Questionnaire to examine driving behaviours within an Australian organisational fleet setting

An examination of what the currently available data can tell us about the effects on offence and crash history of two driver education programs

Application of IHSDM highway safety modelling to New Zealand

Assessing and managing older drivers' crash risk using Safe System principles

Assessing crash risks on curves

Assessment of personal crash risk among rural drivers: perception versus reality

AusRAP star ratings for the Australian national network

Can you talk and drive safely at the same time? An examination of gender differences in driving performance of young drivers observed whilst conversing with a passenger or on a mobile phone

Characteristics of rollover crashes

Comparing driving behaviour between 4WD and sedan vehicles: preliminary results

Competing or complementing: driver education and graduated driver licensing

Crossing roads safely: an experimental study of age and gender differences in gap selection by child pedestrians

Dangerous gender performances: 'hydraulic masculinity' as a norm for young male drivers

Driver-vehicle interactions in 4WDs: a theoretical review

Drivers' understanding of fatigue management and countermeasures

Emerging crash trend analysis

Estimating pedestrian fatal crash risk

Explicit and implicit processes in behavioural adaptation to road width

Factors associated with speeding, drink-driving, driving while fatigued and seat belt use in a sample of metropolitan Sydney drivers

Factors influencing young drivers' risk perceptions and speeding behaviour

Fatigue in motorcycle crashes: is there an issue?

Fatigue issues for metropolitan bus drivers: ramifications of quantitative and qualitative research findings for safety management

Improving road safety transfer from highly motorised countries to less motorised countries

Increasing senior driver safety through vision tests and education: a community based program

Integration of work-related fleet safety within a workplace health and safety management system: a case study approach

Lessons and results from the observational study of motor vehicle restraint use in Western Australia

Misuse of child restraints and injury outcome in crashes

Modelling and analysis of crash densities for Karangahake Gorge, New Zealand

Motor vehicle safety levels: considerations for consumers in used vehicle purchasing decisions

Motorcyclist fatality and motorcycle sales patterns in Australia: an update

Parental perceptions of legitimate reasons to relax their seating rules for children in cars

Personality characteristics and attitudes of young traffic offenders

Planning for motorcycle safety: measures of success

Poststructuralist theory and methodology: a complementary approach to road safety research

Press vibes and videotapes: a peer road safety education project

Profiling drink driving offenders in Queensland

Psychosocial influences on young Australian university students decisions to ride with a drink driver

Queensland young driver community engagement process

Reduction of speed limit from 110 km/h to 100 km/h on certain roads in South Australia: a preliminary evaluation

Results and implications of a survey of child restraint use in South Australia

Risk factors associated with driver fatigue

Risk targeted road policing in New Zealand: being smarter and safer in deploying resources to reduce road trauma

Road safety engineering risk assessment: recent and future research

Safer roads through community partnerships: recent experience in Tasmania

Safer roads: a smarter way to target investment: the Gold Coast experience

Self-awareness of driving impairment in patients with cataract or glaucoma

Significant others, who are they? Examining normative influences on speeding

Some factors that may increase crash risk of older female drivers

South Australian primary schools bicycle helmet usage survey

Study of the relationship between injury outcomes in police reported crash data and crash barrier test results in Europe and Australia

Sustained attention and hypovigilance: the effect of environmental monotony on continuous task performance and implications for road safety

Tackling the causes of serious injury crashes

Teaching old dogs new tricks? Training older motorcyclists

Testing the pedestrian safety of bull bars: methods and results

The Adelaide Metropolitan Indepth Crash Investigation Study 2002-2005

The development of a wet weather speed limit trial on a NSW freeway

The impact of driver distraction on young drivers

The influence of body mass index and weight on injury severity in motor vehicle crashes

The influence of trends in heavy vehicle travel on road trauma in the light vehicle fleet

The joys of watching paint dry (or the Brisbane City Council pavement marking materials trial)

The transfer of stress from daily hassles to the driving environment in a fleet sample

This is what happened: a narrative analysis of what was happening immediately prior to and during road crashes

Tired of raising awareness of driver fatigue? Push on

Why do older drivers have a high rate of involvement in casualty accidents per distance driven?

Will I wake up? A presentation on fatigue, showing innovative measures working with road safety partners to address the problem

Work and fatigue among light truck and short haul drivers in NSW

Youth at risk: how do they get their driver's licence?