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I lived and worked in Ballarat for a while. I loved running and riding laps around Lake Wendouree. One thing I was always very wary of though was the tram tracks running parallel to the bike lane. Back then I was mainly working on the design and development of...

Amazing line-up of road safety and road/street design training courses... more info here. ————- Follow Kenn Beer on LinkedIn for more updates and road safety industry news.

Why do crashes at roundabouts tend to be less severe than those at traditional intersections (crossroads, t-intersections, signalised intersections)? Two factors play a big role - speed and angle. Roundabouts naturally slow vehicles as they approach and move through...

Closing keynote slots can be dangerous. The audience has already heard a lot and the energy is dropping. You need something to bring the oomph back. So at last week’s Transportation Conference in Aotearoa New Zealand, I threw in a Safe System heavyweight fight. --...

Another motorcyclist NOT hitting a wire rope safety barrier.( that’s not the point of this post, but I thought I would get it out of the way before the comments come in ) What I'm very interested in is the joint sealant here that appears to have destabilised the...

Be honest, were you ready for that blue car? Dynamic Visual Obstruction is when one vehicle blocks sightlines to another vehicle or road user. Left turn lanes (like the one below) create a situation where this becomes more prevalent. Make sure you think about these...

By around 2040, motorcyclists are projected to become the dominant mode involved in death and serious injury on Australian roads. Those projections were based on historic growth trends in motorcycle use, trauma assumptions and safety investment scenarios. The...

…and the winner is… road safety in Aotearoa New Zealand. Last night Safe System Solutions, in partnership with NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi, won the Trafinz National Road Safety Leadership Award. The award recognised our national rollout of technical training that...

The conference app chat made me laugh. Great to be back in Wellington, New Zealand for Transportation Conference 2026. But I could not help but giggle at the discussion happening in the conference app. Dr. Elliot Fishman asked the question many people had been...

Last week I was teaching the Road Safety Audit course and running the module on infrastructure design for motorcycle safety. I mentioned that, no matter how you look at it, motorcyclists are significantly over represented in road trauma (which is why Auditors need to...

I use this analogy a lot when pedestrian crossing 'warrants' come up. It usually gets a laugh first… then a pause. Anyways, sharing it here in case it helps you get people over the line to create safer and more accessible roads and streets. (Note: I didn’t come up...

Last week our engineers were obsessing over the technical details of this crash in Tasmania involving a light pole and roadside barrier. (Thankfully, we understand no one was seriously injured.) From the footage, it appears the white ute has pocketed into the light...

We are excited to announce a new strategic partnership. Safe System Solutions has signed a Strategic Partnership with Stretic. Why this matters? Safe System Solutions has been involved in active transport safety for many years. Walking and riding have always been...

I posted this a couple of years ago and people still ask me for it, so here it is again. This was from when I first started experimenting with AI. I asked it to create a pictorial view of how different road users perceive each other. Interesting, isn’t it. ————-...

Earlier this week I was chatting with one of our young gun engineers. By chatting, I mean he innocently asked a question and somehow found himself in an impromptu lecture on speed limits and speed management. Occupational hazard, I guess. One of the points I made was...

In this video, the rider tracks along a milled edge and is down in seconds. Why? Motorcycles rely on balance and continuous micro adjustments.A longitudinal ridge can create a self steering effect.The tyre follows the groove.The rider loses lateral control. Riders...

What Test Level is your front fence? ————- Follow Kenn Beer on LinkedIn for more updates and road safety industry news.

Finishing off the week in Washington, D.C. I had a brilliant catch-up with David Zipper. If you’re in DC and care about road safety and sensible transport, you make time to see this man. Apart from coining the term ‘Car Bloat’, authoring countless articles,...

I’m in the passenger seat on the way home from Port Fairy, just marvelling at the black Audio Tactile Line Marking (ATLM) offset from the edgeline. Why is it done like that? Maintenance. If ATLM is placed on or right next to the edgeline, it gets struck frequently and...

Final day of Program Zero, and in between the trauma modelling, counterfactual analysis, case-by-case reviews and strategic response scenarios, we introduced some other very serious science. Enter: Sink or Float. Random objects from my hotel room.A Johns Hopkins drink...