Safety
The role of the Safety program is to assist road and transport agencies in their efforts to improve road safety, particularly in the prevention of death and serious injuries through use of safe system principles.
The role of the Safety task force is to develop and deliver a program of research that will assist road and transport agencies in their efforts to improve road safety and to maintain the currency of the Austroads Guide to Road Safety. The task force also provides a link between the National Road Safety Executive Group and Austroads.
Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020
The Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020 was launched on 28 May 2011 by the United Nations. This initiative with a decade long focus highlights the “goal to stabilize and then reduce the forecast level of road traffic fatalities around the world by increasing activities conducted at the national, regional and global levels”.
Austroads is supporting this Decade of Action and is at present working on a number of initiatives both nationally and throughout the Asia Pacific region. Throughout the decade, Austroads will make its Guide to Road Safety available to interested countries and government bodies, primarily in the Asia Pacific region.
The Austroads Guide to Road Safety will be made available as a free PDF subject to:
- A request being submitted to Austroads at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
- The request needs to specify the purpose the Guide is to be used for and the nature and extent of circulation or copying of the material.
- The Guide is to be used in government or not-for-profit initiatives in countries in the Asia Pacific region associated with the Decade of Action.
- The Guide will be provided in electronic format, watermarked to the organisation to which it is provided.
The Guide will not be made available for free to commercial users or for consultants or training providers charging commercial rates to users unless these are part of a government sponsored initiative in that country. Other Austroads publications - all Austroads research reports related to road safety are already available for free download from the Austroads website.
The full Guide to Road Safety set comprises of:
- Part 1: Road Safety Overview
- Part 2: Road Safety Strategy and Evaluation
- Part 3: Speed Limits and Speed Management
- Part 4: Local Government and Community Road Safety
- Part 5: Road Safety for Rural and Remote Areas
- Part 6: Road Safety Audit
- Part 7: Road Network Crash Risk Assessment and Management
- Part 8: Treatment of Crash Locations
- Part 9: Roadside Hazard Management
The future Safety program will focus on addressing those safety-related actions in the National Road Safety Strategy 2012-2020 that best align with Austroads purpose of promoting harmonisation, consistency and uniformity in road and related operations.
SS1384 Traffic Management and Infrastructure: Lessons from In-depth Crash Investigation
SS1385 Medical Conditions as a factor in crash causation
SS1494 Road crash injuries – cost and prevention
SS1570 The impact of changes in the Australian vehicle fleet on crashworthiness and crash outcomes
SS1573 Speed enforcement – national survey of driver attitudes
SS1649 Best practice in point to point speed enforcement
SS1650 Providing for road user error in the safe system
ST 1426 Methods to achieve overall reductions in operating speeds in rural areas
ST1427 Improving Roadside Safety
ST1428 Road Safety Risk Assessment – Dissemination of research findings and updating of crash databases and crash reductions factors
ST1429 Safe intersection approach treatments and safer speeds through intersections
ST1430 Improving safety of heavy vehicles in urban areas – stage 1
ST1434 Road safety audit and road safety engineering toolkit – site maintenance
ST 1571 National risk assessment model, program development and trials (SSWG projects)
SP1646 Update Guide to Road Safety - Parts 1, 2 & 5
ST1647 Safety, operational and environmental impacts of reduced speed limits
ST1651 Impact of roadside advertising on road safety
SS1653 Safe system demonstration project involving and indigenous community - stage 2
SS1707 Development of a best practice model graduated licensing scheme for car drivers
SS1708 Development of a best practice model graduated licensing system for motor cycle riders
SS1710 Motorcycle in-depth crash study
SP1705 Recommended safe system practice amendments to the Guide to Road Design
ST1706 National guidelines for setting speed limits at higher risk locations
Program Manager:
David Reed
Director (Road Safety Policy)
Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads
Program Support:
Deborah Evans
Principal Advisor (Austroads)
Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads
PO Box 673
Fortitude Valley Qld 4006
Phone: +61 7 3253 4317
Email:
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