Sharply increasing fuel prices and significantly heightened concerns about environmental impacts of vehicles have dramatically changed the profile of new vehicle sales in Australia over the past few years. Specifically, sales of light and small vehicles have grown rapidly whilst the medium and particularly the large vehicle segments have contracted sharply. In the face of this, sales of four wh...

The safety of road users is one the priority issues taken into account in both operation and design vehicles. presented work part a study that aims to develop method for parametric assessment driver behavior. driving style depends on their skills psychophysical characteristics, type performance vehicle used by driver, road. This involves continuous measurement longitudinal lateral acceleration ...

The Anti-lock braking system (ABS) is an active safety device in road vehicles, which during hard braking maximizes the braking force between the tyre and the road irrespective of the road conditions. This is accomplished by regulating the wheel slip around its optimum value. Due to the high non-linearity of the tyre and road interaction, and uncertainties from vehicle dynamics, a standard PID ...

OBJECTIVE In this study, we aimed to quantify and compare performance of middle-aged and older drivers during a naturalistic distraction paradigm (visual search for roadside targets) and to predict older drivers performance given functioning in visual, motor, and cognitive domains. BACKGROUND Distracted driving can imperil healthy adults and may disproportionally affect the safety of older dr...

Skid resistance and road condition are common indices of road safety; therefore providing adequate skidding resistance will reduce the incidence of road accidents. The surface macrotexture has a large effect on the characteristics of road surface skidding, which is the focus of this research. During the study, the mean texture depth of the road surface was measured, in order to determine the co...

Over the last forty years, safety on Australian roads has significantly improved in part because of the adoption of aviation safety technologies. The best known of these adaptations are: safety belts; anti-skid braking; dashboard/control layout improvement and the use of computers to aid stability and performance. The improvement in safety on the road as reflected by reductions in road trauma h...