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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...

I was just looking through our folder of info on protected bike lanes and came across this footage. Take your pick, you can either look in wonder at the Albert Street protected bike lane, or in wonder at the delivery rider’s wheelie. I hope he’s delivering a stir-fry....

A great example of LUMS (Lane Use Management System) in action. A nice Safe System solution here showing someone making a mistake and the system responding. Sure, it would be easy to point the finger at the rider and say they should not be doing that (which is true),...

Check out the new (Safe System) raised signalised Pedestrian Operated Signals in Bendigo... ————- Follow Kenn Beer on LinkedIn for more updates and road safety industry news.

Yesterday I ran a short, intensive Road Safety Audit refresher for a group of over 150 people delivering a very large infrastructure program. Credit to the group for wanting to sharpen how they use RSAs to manage risk, provide safety assurance, and prevent death and...

Our next Roundabout Design Course has filled up quickly. We've had a number of enquiries about when the next one would run. Good news. Another course has now been released. Click here to register. ————- Follow Safe System Solutions Pty Ltd on LinkedIn for more updates...

This video aggravates us because it was foreseeable. The layout is a major contributor to this crash. Not bad drivers. A bad system that allowed this design onto a public roadway. The geometry reinforces a straight through movement at speed. Then introduces a major...

Interesting issue around vehicles launching off snowbanks and over barriers. But while watching this video, I kept thinking we need to tweak our messaging. “As soon as you put in an external factor such as excess speed, a tired or fatigued driver, an impaired driver,...

This image comes from an interesting protest by motorcyclists in Italy, highlighting guardrail systems that are not fitted with motorcycle underrun protection (motorcycle protection rail). Having worked in motorcycle safety infrastructure for almost 25 years, there...

People often ask about the difference between the Road Safety Audit course and the Lead Road Safety Auditor course. Well, they're designed for different stages of practice. The Road Safety Audit course focuses on the fundamentals of Road Safety Audits. It builds the...

This video will aggravate some people. It certainly shocks many of us. A man holding a baby crosses a major signalised intersection against the red. It is illegal. It is dangerous. No argument there. But if our response stops at blame or outrage, we miss the...

Attention ACT based engineers, designers, road managers and maintenance professionals. Supported by the ACT Government, this practical and evidence based course focuses on how road planning, design and maintenance decisions influence motorcyclist safety. The course...

Why we are so passionate about using AusRAP alongside Road Safety Audits and Safe System Assessments? It strengthens decision making. AusRAP brings national and international consistency to how risk is assessed. Star Ratings provide a clear and easily understood way...

Spent part of the summer preparing content for a tailored Road Safety Engineering 101 course that we've been commissioned to deliver in 2026. One of the many things I revisited was the ratio of Fatal and Serious Injury to other injury outcomes in Victorian road...

When people make the wrong turn, it is rarely because they chose to do the wrong thing. More often, the intersection quietly invited them to. We often talk about self-explaining roads at midblock locations, usually in the context of speed. But the same principles...

Last year I shared a post about Road Safety Audit independence. It caused a bit of a kerfuffle. You can read the post and varied comments here. This week I was asked to do a 3rd party review of a Road Safety Audit for a major project where the same consultancy...

We recently completed a CycleRAP assessment of Transurban’s cycling network in Victoria. Keeping people safe on roads, streets and paths is our mission, and CycleRAP provides an objective, evidence-based way to understand how well cycling infrastructure manages injury...