AUSTRALIAN INITIATIVES
A prospective cohort study of over 20,000 young NSW drivers investigating potential determinants of motor vehicle related crashes and injuries. The DRIVE study is the largest study of young drivers ever undertaken.
Northern Territory road safety research
A group of projects funded by the Northern Territory Government that aim to provide the NT Government with strategic road safety research and policy advice. These include reviews of fatal crashes in the NT, a review of driver training and education systems in the NT, general road safety and policy consultation and development of a road safety policy for the NT and the most recent project involving development of guidelines for road safety around schools.
This study identifies the associations between usage / non-usage of motorcycle protective clothing and injury and subsequent disability.
This project evaluates a rider coaching program that is being trialled in Victoria for newly licensed riders.
Bicylce injury - The PEDALS Study
This study aims to identify the associations between riding environment, protective clothing and severity of bicycle related injury.
The Heavy Vehicle Study is examining the associations between sleep, scheduling and shift work in heavy vehicle drivers, and risk of crash.
Evaluation of alcohol interventions on Indigenous road safety in Bourke, NSW
In February 2009, take-away alcohol restrictions were introduced in Bourke, NSW. Funded by the Road Traffic Authority of NSW, this project will evaluate the impact of these restrictions on road related injury in an Indigenous community in Bourke and surrounding regions. Read more about this project and researcher Marilyn Lyford.
This study is assessing the effectiveness of a pre-school based educational program to increase the use of appropriate child restraints and decrease misuse of restraints in pre-school aged children travelling in cars.
Vic Roads pedestrian and cyclist crashes
This report assists in identifying factors related to pedestrian and cyclist crashes in Victoria and appropriate countermeasures to address the upward trend in these casualty crashes.
Vic Roads On-Ride: Evaluation of a large-scale trial of an on-road assisted ride program for newly licensed motorcycle riders
This project evaluates the impact of a rider training program in Melbourne on rider skills, behaviors, and crash involvement. It aims to contribute significantly to decisions about the future of the program, its roll-out to other areas and adjustments that should be made to its content and delivery.
Indigenous safe systems demonstration project
This project aims to apply Safe System principles and practice to improve road safety in an Indigenous community. It will enable initiatives from each component of the Safe System – safe roads, safe speeds, safe road users and safe vehicles – to be applied and evaluated in a single community.
Rapid Reviews – Aboriginal injury prevention
It aims to inform programs for interventional research and evaluation in injury prevention for Aboriginal people in NSW.
Overcoming barriers to using child restraints in an urban Indigenous community: a pilot study
Buckle up safely: multi-faceted intervention to increase appropriate use of child restraints based in preschools with large numbers of Indigenous children
INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVES
Heavy vehicle studies – India, Iran
A study to facilitate international comparison of prevalence data for risk factors in heavy vehicle drivers employing the same design as the one being conducted in Australia.
A study of risk factors associated with burns and falls – Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh India
This study identifies risk factors and context for injuries due to burns and falls in India in patients who presented with these injuries to a tertiary care hospital.
This pilot study of a randomised control trial in one region of China aims to demonstrate effectiveness of an evidence-based driver training program in real world traffic that has been adapted to the Chinese context.
A multi-centre study which will examine the use of non standard motorcycle helmets in ten countries worldwide.
Evaluating and enhancing the national mortality reporting system in Vietnam
Study on health and socio-economic impact of severe injuries in Vietnam
RECENTLY COMPLETED PROJECTS
A cross-over study indicated that use of a mobile phone while driving increased the likelihood of a road crash resulting in hospital attendance by fourfold. Currently available hands-free devices did not mitigate the risk.
A survey to find out how and why motorcyclists make decisions about usage of protective clothing.
It examined the effectiveness of a city wide enforcement, social marketing and training intervention designed to increase seatbelt restraint use in Guangzhou, China.
The role of research within the novice driver licensing policymaking process: identifying potential facilitators of research utilisation
Indigenous road injury pilot study
External evaluation of the implementation and evaluation of the project 'Road traffic safety initiatives in Viet Nam'
Viet Nam report on child injury prevention
FUTURE DIRECTIONS
New initiatives are currently in progress or in planning with colleagues in China, India and Vietnam. A review of novice driver education, training and licensing practices is underway in China. Heavy vehicle and motorcycle helmet projects are under development in China and India, as well as a number of road safety research projects in the South East Asian region.
