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The updated Austroads Guide to Road Safety (AGRS) features seven parts: Part 1: Introduction & The Safe System Part 2: Safe Roads Part 3: Safe Speed Part 4: Safe People Part 5: Safe Vehicles Part 6 and 6A: Managing & Implementing Road Safety Audits Part 7:...

The updated Austroads Guide to Road Safety (AGRS) features seven parts: Part 1: Introduction & The Safe System Part 2: Safe Roads Part 3: Safe Speed Part 4: Safe People Part 5: Safe Vehicles Part 6 and 6A: Managing & Implementing Road Safety Audits Part 7:...

Austroads engaged Safe System Solutions Pty Ltd to update the Guide to Road Safety (all parts except Part 6, which is part of an ongoing project). The updated guide now reflects the Safe System pillars - Part 2: Safe Roads, Part 3: Safe Speeds, Part 4: Safe People...

Vertical deflection is not just for low-speed roads. Raised safety platforms or raised intersections are increasingly being used on high volume, high speed (60km/h +) arterial roads. Some specific tips for raised intersections or safety platforms on arterial roads:►...

The German Autobahns have an average crash rate of 130 injuries per billion vehicle kilometers travelled (VKT). The Hume Freeway has a crash rate of 33 injures per billion VKT.

Getting safety messages to resonate requires a deep understanding of the target audience. An effective way to develop targeted messages is to use customer personas. Here are motorcycle customer personas and safety messages that will resonate.  

Road Safety Evaluations and The Hawthorne Effect.The Hawthorne effect refers to a type of reaction in which individuals who know they are being observed modify their behaviour. This effect can often affect the accuracy and results of a road safety study. Depending on...

Don’t give up at the roundabout.Cyclist safety at roundabouts is often an afterthought, but in recent years a raft of design guidance has been produced to create safe facilities for cyclists.Check out VicRoads/DoT's Guidance on Bicycle and Pedestrian Treatments at...

Licensing, training and assessment of trike riders can be ambiguous. We've assembled some key points and prompting questions in the synopsis below on the licensing, training and assessment of trike riders.

It is not reasonable to expect humans to process and react to large volumes of information in a short period of time. There is a strong correlation between decreasing driving performance and an increase driving workload, such as that from reading traffic signs (Bendak...

We're excited that the Australasian Road Safety Conference is back in 2021.Papers accepted from Safe System Solutions Pty Ltd.:Kathy Doukouris - Road Safety Capability Requirements for Road AuthoritiesKenn Beer & Max McCardel - Roads That Cars Can Read assessment:...

Wire Rope Safety Barrier - rope tensionWire rope systems will deflect more on hot days and less on cold days. The required wire rope tension for a specific installation is calculated using the Annual Average Daily Temperature at site and the Product Manual. It is...

Centre airbags are designed to minimise the impact between the two front seat occupants in side-impact and rollover crashes. These airbags are deployed from the side of the driver’s and/or front passenger seat. The result is that they reduce the likelihood of the...

If you build it, they will live. Raised Safety Platform factsheet.

Road Safety Barriers technical training course (Melb) starts 20 July.✔Barrier design✔Systems and products✔New Austroads Guide to Road Design Part 6✔Testing✔MASH✔Barrier selection✔Crash cushions✔End terminals✔Design challenges✔Transitions✔Motorcyclists✔Containment...

In Australia and New Zealand we fight tooth and nail to reduce the speed limit to 30km/h on each occasion. Perhaps we should follow the Spanish approach and make our urban default speed limit 30km/h, and raise the speed limit on isolated roads with appropriate...

There are a variety of innovative roundabout designs available that provide increased capacity while still retaining much of the Safe System aligned elements. These include the 'Squarcle' and the 'Cut Through'. These innovative roundabouts require signalisation to...

Around 5% of crashes with animals result in injury to humans (FHWA 2016). In NSW over a ten year period 1,708 people were injured and there were 24 deaths from crashes with animals. Kangaroos represented 60% (Ramp and Roper 2014). Single vehicle run-off-road crashes...

Congratulations to all the DoT Traffic Signals Cadets on their interest in, and commitment to, road safety and the Safe System. This week Kenn Beer finished presenting a series of road safety training sessions with the Department of Transport Traffic Signals Cadets....

Wire Rope Safety Barriers – curves, sags and crests.Because Wire Rope Safety Barrier systems consist of ropes in tension, the minimum allowable horizontal curve radius is 200 metres in most jurisdictions. When designing, the effect of the curve on barrier deflection...