Publications
Many of the centre’s publications can be accessed online, covering a wide range of topics.
These include evidence-based road safety observations relating to: drug and alcohol use, collision avoidance, cycling, injury biomechanics, young drivers, traffic engineering, fleet safety, and occupant protection.
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Latest publications and reports
Development and trial of a process to audit vehicle safety technologies in rural areas
The purpose of this pilot project was to devise and trial a method by which the safety technologies of a sample of the vehicle fleet in South Australia could be identified and compared between vehicles being used in metropolitan areas and rural areas. The trialled method proved successful in collect...
Increasing walking, cycling, and use of public transport is identified in South Australia’s strategic plans (Carbon Neutral Action Plan 2016-2020 and Operation Moving Traffic) to reduce the state’s carbon footprint and improve the operation of the transport system. The aim of this report is to inves...
Practical Approaches for Managing Regional Road Safety Priorities
This report details road and transport safety interventions that can reduce fatal and serious injury crashes in regional and remote areas. A literature review expands on the Austroads National View on Regional and Remote Road Safety report by including material published since 2017. A series o...
Collection and analysis of EDR data from crash-involved vehicles: 2021 summary report
Modern vehicles are fitted with Event Data Recorders (EDRs) that constantly record variables such as speed, seatbelt usage, accelerator/brake pedal position, and steering wheel angle. When a crash occurs, a snapshot of the final few seconds of these variables are saved on the EDR in addition to cras...
Injury crashes involving child cyclists in South Australia 2009-2018
This report contains a straightforward statistical summary of child (aged under 16 years old) cyclists injured in road crashes reported in South Australia for the period of 2009-2018 obtained from the Traffic Accident Reporting System (TARS). A set of tables based on various characteristics of the c...
Crashes involving road users who have recently arrived in South Australia
There have only been a limited number of previous road safety studies of recent arrivals (tourists and migrants) in Australia. The present report examined crashes in South Australia in which a road user (car driver, motorcycle rider, bicycle rider or pedestrian) who had recently arrived in Australia...
Travelling at a speed above the speed limit is commonly known as speeding. Prior studies examining the prevalence and profile of speeding in Australia (and other countries) have used data from various sources, including speed enforcement data, speed measurement surveys, self‐report studies, an...
Motorcycle Rider Perceptual Countermeasures
A trial was conducted to evaluate whether a suitable road-based perceptual countermeasure (PCM) could influence the travelling speed as well as lane position of motorcyclists to induce a safe curve negotiation. The motorcyclist PCM selected for the trial was a modified version of a peripheral transv...