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Competitive advantage
- One of Australia's leading transport and road safety research centres
- Structured around disciplines needed for effective transport and road safety research: safety policy and systems, psychology, human factors, engineering and crashworthiness, information technology systems, biomechanics, biostatistics, epidemiology, and social sciences
Impact
- Translation of research findings that inform transport and road safety policy
- Multiple submissions to state and federal parliamentary inquiries into road safety
- Advisory role to several road safety authorities in Australia and internationally
Successful outcomes
- The Australian Naturalistic Driving Study (ANDS), the most significant naturalistic study of driving in Australia and internationally
Capabilities and facilities
- Driving simulation lab
- Data linkage, biostatistics, surveillance, large observational and naturalistic studies
- Expertise in various areas of road safety research: novice drivers, motorcycle crashes, heavy vehicle drivers, fatigue, quad bike safety and cycling safety, including in older people
Our partners
- Transport for NSW
- Queensland Department of Main Roads
- Victoria Department of Transport
- NSW State Insurance Regulatory Authority
- Transport Accident Commission, Victoria
- NSW Crashlab
- UN Road Safety Collaboration
- Global Burden Of Diseases and Injury Group