Safer Vehicles is a cornerstone of the Safe Systems approach to road safety. The Australasian New Car Assessment Program is one of the premier programs under the safer vehicles banner. It aims to improve the safety of new vehicles entering the fleet through identifying objective design and performance criteria for manufacturers to improve vehicle safety and publishing information on the relativ...

The assessment of the safety of road crossing facilities in urban scenarios can be supported by means of advanced computer-based simulations. Integrated models considering the vehicular and pedestrian traffic, and their interactions, still lack empirical evidences about the heterogeneous features of pedestrians, with particular reference to age-driven crossing behaviour. Elderly pedestrians are...

Road traffic safety is receiving increasing attention. Different real-time safety indicators relying on traffic sensor data can be found in the literature. Some are based on the posterior analysis of crash and traffic data; while others are based on real time traffic risk assessment using microscopic parameters (e.g., short time headways). Other non-traffic related parameters have an impact on ...

Descriptive analyses of the magnitude and situation of road safety in general and road accidents in particular is important, but understanding of data quality, factors related with dangerous situations and different interesting patterns in a data is of even greater importance. Under the umbrella of an information architecture research for road safety in developing countries, the objective of th...

occupational road traffic crashes account for a large portion of killed and seriously injured road traffic victims. several organizations have introduced driver-training programs in order to determine a safety culture and improve the safety of employees and society, as well as to comply with insurance company requests to reduce risks. the aim of these programs is to identify and promote desirab...

Road crashes continue to be a leading cause of death globally, with most these reportedly occurring due human factors. Traditional road safety assessment utilises geometric and traffic parameters that consider design inadequacies identify conflicts. However, previous studies do not represent risky driving behavior its influence on crash occurrence. Incorporating factors into evaluation is cruci...

This paper presents a methodology for evaluating life safety risks in road tunnel fires. The methodology considers three realistic fire scenarios, smoke spread, occupant evacuation, and reliability of fire suppression systems. The three fire scenarios represent three variations of fire growth rates. The road tunnel in this study is assumed to have two traffic tubes, a longitudinal ventilation s...

Drivers are known to be optimistic about their risk of crash involvement, believing that they are less likely to be involved in a crash than other drivers. However, little comparative research has been conducted among other road users. In addition, optimism about crash risk is conceptualised as applying only to an individual's assessment of his or her personal risk of crash involvement. The pos...