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Wyndham City Council (one of Australia’s fastest growing municipalities) has just released their Road Safety Strategy and Action Plan 2022-2032. The strategy commits Wyndham to being proactive, innovative, and progressive in their approach, and activates them to lead...

Our Project Development Lead, Max McCardel, will be presenting alongside Nicole Badstuber FCIHT at the ITE Australia & New Zealand (ITE-ANZ) online seminar Designing for Cyclist Safety. Max is the lead trainer for the Safe System Solutions Pty Ltd. (Social)...

Safe System SketchHave a good weekend.

Consistency of intersection treatment along a corridor has long been known to improve compliance and safety for vehicles (AGTM Part 6). We need to take the same thinking and apply it to our cycling corridors.The video below shows five minor road crossings along a...

This is an exciting evolution in the Road Safety Audit profession.Congratulations to iRAP, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and our team at Safe System Solutions Pty Ltd. that worked so hard in developing this methodology.

How do you decide which road safety assessment technique to use at what stage of your project? Yesterday our Principal Engineer, Kenn Beer, ran a bespoke one-day training workshop for the ACT Government to demystify the many road safety assessment techniques...

It's Friday Safe System Sketch time.Have a good weekend.

Bicycle Hook Turns are encouraged as a way for cyclists to navigate signalised intersections with less likelihood of crash. To encourage riders to make this turn (as opposed to crossing to the middle of the road and propping in the right turn lane), Hook Turn Storage...

Superelevation of a curve provides a raised surface to counter the centrifugal force of the vehicle navigating the curve. Adverse superelevation is when the road is angled in such a way that the surface does not counter the centrifugal force experienced by a vehicle...

Friday Safe System Sketch.One for all the road safety barrier enthusiasts.Have a super weekend.

What is HIC? Find out in the factsheet below.

Happy Friday.Here's another Safe System Sketch from our engineers to close out the week.Have a good weekend.

Please don't fill your water-filled barriers with concrete. 

Safe System Sketch because it's a Friday.Have a good weekend.

The Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) has been around since the 70s as a way to code injuries and injury severity. Here's a short fact sheet to help you understand what the codes mean. This is covered in detail in our online Safe System Crash Investigation course. More...

Friday Safe System Sketch time.Have a good weekend.

Vehicles leave the road in many ways. While ‘drift off’ may be the start of many lane departure events, the crash can end up as a single yaw, double yaw or even triple yaw crash due to the overcorrections by the driver.

Friday Safe System Sketch.Have a wonderful weekend.

The three main factors to be considered in the severity outcomes of intersection designs are:⭕ Speed⭕ Impact angle⭕ Kinetic energy threshold (human biomechanical tolerance to harm). The graph below shows the passenger vehicle relationship between these three using a...

Last week our Project Development Lead (and cycling infrastructure fanatic) Max McCardel got out on the bike with Minister Ben Carroll and a group hosted by the Amy Gillett Foundation.Wonderful to see so many people committed to continuing the rollout of safe cycling...