Road Safety Web Links - Australia and the World

by Vehicle Design & Research Pty Ltd Sydney, Australia

Government Sites

Australia

• Transport/Roads & Maritime (NSW state govt)
• Crashlab  crash test facility and research
• Vehicle Standards includes a code of practice for vehicle modifications (updated URL)
  
• Road Safety Information
• Vehicle safety compliance cerfication scheme (VSCCS) list of licensed vehicle certifiers. (PDF) - for modified and imported vehicles
• 4th Annual Local Government Road Safety Conference - many papers available online, including the keynote address by Narelle Haworth.
• NSW Motor Accidents Authority - Road Safety Professionals.
• Queensland Transport.
• VicRoads (Victorian state govt) - Vehicle Safety (updated URL)
  
• Northern Territory
• WA Office of Road Safety.
• Federal Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government (Updated URL)
• Vehicle Safety Bulletins.
• Australian Design Rules now online!
• Importing vehicles into Australia.
• Road Vehicle Certification System
• List of consultants who do ADR certifications.
• Australian recalls (nowACCC)
  
• Airbags.
• Downloadable reports & brochures.
• Emergency Rescuer's Guide to Vehicle Airbags (this site is password protected and is for emergency personnel)
• Carsafe - National Motor Vehicle Theft Reduction Council.
• NSW Parliament Staysafe Committee - recent Staysafe reports available)
• National Transport Commission (new name and link)- regulation of heavy vehicles in Australia.
  
• TPG listing of Australian Government sites and car makers

North America

• Transport Canada
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (USA)
• Airbags and kids (for US cars only - see this Australian advice)
• ITS Electronic Document Library On-Line Catalog - hundreds of PDF downloads.
• NHTSA's rulemaking priorities - 2002-2005
• Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards - search Federal Regulations (good luck!) or GPO has downloadable PDFs
• Office of Crash Avoidance Research Technical Publications
  
• National Transportation Safety Board - USA (see the PDF Publications List)
• New York Child Traffic Safety Committee.
• Yahoo's listing of US State Governments - some transport agencies amongst these

Europe

• UK Dept for Transport - ThinkRoadSafety [updated]
  
• European Transport Safety Council.See their CRASH Newsletter.
• BAST - German Federal Highway Research Institute.
• Swedish National Road Administration.Vision Zero. More on Vision Zero.
• Swedish VTI - dozens of road safety and emissions publications online.
• UN ECE Vehicle Regulations.
• EC Directives Applying to Motor Vehicles - from CarDesignOnline.com
• European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT).
  

Asia/Pacific

• Japan: Traffic Safety and Nuisance Research Institute, Ministry of Transport
• Japan: Ministry of Land,Infrastructure and Transport
• New Zealand - 
• Accident Compensation Corporation  Road safety (many links)
• RightCar
• Land Transport NZ

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Motoring Organisations (vehicle safety pages, where readily available)

Australia

• Australian Automobile Association (AAA) - includes Airbags Enhance Safety.
• NRMA (New South Wales & ACT) - see 'Car Safety' list. Also child safety and Research Reports.
  
• RACV (Victoria) - see 'Car information'
• RACT (Tasmania)
• RAASA (South Australia)
• RACQ (Queensland) - see 'crash tests'
• RACWA (Western Australia)- see 'Car crash tests'
• Roadside Assistance links (thanks Keith Pennington)
  

International

• AA(UK)
• RAC (UK) - child safety.
• RAC Foundation - research
  
• CAA (Canada)
• AAA (USA) (only links to state organisations)
• ACI (Italy)
• JAF (Japan)
• SBF (Sweden)
• Alliance International de Tourisme (AIT) - representing 130 motoring organisations and touring clubs around the world
• ADAC - Europe's largest motoring organisation (in German, sign-in required)
• Federation Internationale de L'automobile (FIA)
• AANZ (New Zealand)

Other Vehicle Safety Sites (random order - usually newest at bottom)

• FIA Institute for Motor Sport Safety and Sustainability
• FIA Foundation
• Australian Institute for Motor Sport Safety
  
• European Red Cross: One Life Road Safety Campaign.
• Policy.com - transportation issues.
• FISITA - Federation of Automotive Societies. Includes international student exchange and safety links.
• Scientific American: How airbags work and Airbags Working Knowledge (see also the ANCAP/NRMA page on Airbags)
• "The Crash in the Machine" (updated URL $), Scientific American, March 1999 (a great article by BMW engineers)
• Air bags save Mars Pathfinder from a crash landing (deceleration limited to about 10 Earth gs)
• Association for Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM) - some good web links
• Journal of Accident Analysis and Prevention (Contents search- many other Journals covered)
• Society of Automotive Engineers(SAE - USA) - Site search page
• SAE Congress 99 - Technical sessions on safety
• American Automotive Design
• SAE Australasia
• TNO Road-Vehicles Research Institute (Netherlands)
• School Traffic Safety (Indiana, USA)
• School Bus Fleet magazine
• Highway Loss Data Institute
• VETA Society of Road Safety Professionals
• Millbrook Proving Ground (UK)
• MIRA - Motor Industry Research Organisation
• The Global market for airbags and seatbelts: Forecasts to 2010 - Just-auto
• Toyota Safety Features(Japan) - reduced content in 2002 but a new report on hybrid technology.
• Japan Auto Manufacturers Assoc.
• Japan Automobile Research Institute.
• Volvo Safety Features(US) - gone in 2002!
• Vauxhall (GM) Safety Features(UK) - gone in 2002!
• Folksam Swedish Insurance Company that supports road safety research (limited English pages)
• German Insurance Association – GDV
• US Insurance Research Council - Auto Issues - most reports require payment.
• Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals
• Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute VTI.
• International Road Traffic and Accident Database (IRTAD) standards for exchange of accident data.
• Automobile Protection Association - Canadian consumer advocacy group.
• NSW Bus and Coach Association - School Bus Safety.
• Car Detective - advice about buying used vehicles (USA).
• Ruff Rider’s Roadie dog restraint(USA)
• Euroreflex - pedestrian reflectors (Italy)
• Autosafe Australian road safety initiatives listed by Windscreens O'Brien.
• ICBC Road Safety - Canada.
• NOVA Death-defying designs for car safety and Fatal impact – the physics of speeding cars.
• Alba Diagnostics - brake fluid testing.
• 6th International Symposium on Heavy Vehicle Weights and Dimensions
• Extrication.Com - crash rescue advice.
• Speed Management - German site on speed control.
• The WMI pages - explanation of VIN.
• VINPower Vehicle Identification Number Decoder
• Automotive Occupant Restraints Council - occupant restraint manufacturers.
• The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders - UK
• The Sensor Explosion and  Automotive Control Systems (occupant detection) - from Sensor Magazine, May 2000.
• SafetyLit - safety-related literature database.
• National Safety Council of Australia.
• DNA testing of deposits on deployed airbags - for accident reconstruction!
• Enhanced Protection Glass Automotive Association - improved side and rear windows to prevent ejection.
• PAM-Crash - simulation software.
• RoadSafety.com - info and products
• PASSIVE SAFETY TESTING - information for crash test organisations
• Shanghai Motor Vehicle Inspection Centre.
• Arnaud Miege's Vehicle Dynamics & Control and Tyre Modelling Research
• Cambridge Vehicle Dynamics Consortium
• Institute of Traffic Accident Investigators
• Gridwatch - links to auto sites
• Road Traffic Technology - website for the road traffic industry
• Private Fleet - Australian car buying service - has a vehicle safety page.
• Dog and Lemon Guide - "the world’s toughest car buyer’s guide"
• The Great Texas Train Crash (Test)  - 1896 
• Progressive Deformable Barrier - for offset crash tests
• The Chemistry of Airbags
  
  

• Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference
• 2010 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, National Convention Centre, Canberra - 31 August to 3 September 2010.
• 2009 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference: Sydney 11-13 Nov 2009 + ROAD SAFETY 2020: Smart solutions, sustainability, vision: Perth 5-6 Nov 2009 + First International Conference on Intelligent Speed Adaptation: Sydney 10 Nov 2009. 
• 2008 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference: Adelaide 10-12 November 2008
• 2007 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference was held in Melbourne, 17 - 19 October 2007
• Archive of Annual Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference Proceedings (no longer active!)
  
• AAAM
• Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV - NHTSA site with links to proceedings) - a key biannual conference on vehicle safety. 
  
• 23rd ESV will be in Seoul, South Korea 27-30 May 2013
• 22nd ESV, Washington DC June 2011.
• 21st ESV- Stuttgart, Germany 15-18 June 2009.
• 20th ESV - Lyon (France), June 18-21, 2007
• 19th ESV Conference, Washington, DC, June 6 - 9, 2005. 
  
• 18th ESV Conference - May 19-22, 2003, Nagoya, Japan.
  
• 17th ESV Conference 2001 (Netherlands).
• 16th ESV Proceedings (1998 Windsor)
• 15th ESV Abstracts (1996 Melbourne)  (sorry - no longer available! Please tell NHTSA if you want all ESV abstracts/papers available on the Internet)
• NHTSA links. 
• ICRASH
  
• IRCOBI - International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Impact.
  
• SAE World Congress - March each year (usually Detroit).
• Canadian Multidisciplinary Road Safety Conference  Abstracts from previous conferences.
• The XVII Canadian Multidisciplinary Road Safety Conference
  

• International Forum on Road Transport Technology (previously International Symposium on Heavy Vehicle Weights and Dimensions)
• 11th International Symposium on Heavy Vehicle Transport Technology, (HVTT11) took place in Melbourne, Australia, 15 - 17 March 2010.
• 10th International Symposium on Heavy Vehicle Weights and Dimensions (ISHVWD) was held in Paris, France 19-22 May 2008. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 30 June, 2007. Renamed to International Conference on Heavy Vehicles,  May 19-22, 2008 Paris, France
• Previous conference proceedings
• Archives of Road Transport Technology email discussions
• International Symposium on Automotive Lighting - ISAL2007. September, 25-26  2007 -  Darmstadt, Germany (thanks  Michael Griffiths) .  2005 conference.
• 11th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportations Systems - August 29th-31th, 2006, Rijkswaterstaat Testcentre / Technical University Delft, The Netherlands
• 2006 SAE Commercial Vehicle Engineering Congress and Exhibition, October 31 - November 2, 2006, Rosemont, Illinois.
• 11th European Automotive Congress, EAEC2007 in Budapest 30 May - 1 Jun 2007.
• Saferoads 2006 conference - Melbourne, 7-8 Sept 2006.
• Cambridge Uni (UK):  MECHANICS OF HEAVY-DUTY TRUCK SYSTEMS was held at Cambridge University from 23-26 April 2007. The event was be led by three 'gurus' of heavy vehicle dynamics: Chris Winkler and Bob Ervin from UMTRI, and Dick Radlinski of LINK Radlinski Inc...
• People Safe In Rollovers Foundation: EMERGENCY WORLD SUMMIT on ROOF CRUSH. Washington DC, 18-20 July 2007.
• 6th European Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services - Aalborg, Denmark 18-20 June 2007 (Clashes with 20th ESV!)
• ITS Australia: SmartDemo 2007 - 13th to 15th August 2007 - Melbourne
• Australian Intelligent Transport System Summit 2009 - 18-20 Nov, Melbourne.
• ACRS: Infants, Children & Young People & Road Safety Conference - 2-3 August 2007 preceded by a half day seminar on Intelligent Speed Adaptation on 1 August (contact Ian Faulks for details)
• The International Congress of Heavy Vehicles, Road-Trains and Urban Transport will be held in Minsk from 28-31 May 2008 under the patronage of FISITA.
• South Africa: 4th Annual Road Safety Conference - Interventions To Successfully Reduce Road Fatalities By Half By 2014
  September 26 - 28, 2007 - Johannesburg, South Africa
• ACRS: Safe Walking: A Colloquium on Pedestrian Safety - Sydney 26th Nov 2007.
• HCTP: The first national conference on best practice management of compensable soft tissue injuries in community settings. Adelaide 23-26 Nov 08.
• ACRS: Motivating behaviour change among high risk road users: What works and what doesn't work? - Brisbane 18-19 Sep 2008.
• Neck injuries in Road Traffic an Prevention Strategies, TUV Akademie, November 18 - 19, 2008, Munich, Germany
• 28‐29 September, 2009, Gothenburg, Sweden, Chalmers Uni: Call for Abstracts  - First International Conference on   Driver Distraction and Inattention,  Abstracts due 15 April, 2009  (thanks Mike Regan)
• 9th National Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, 26-28 July 2009, Melbourne.
• Speed, the acclaimed 4th international congress on speed reduction and control -  Thursday 17 May 2012, 9am – 4pm, Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMECHE) London

ITS - Intelligent Transportation Systems


"Anticipation denotes intelligence" - quote from the movie Fifth Element. A major problem with ITS is that it is unable to anticipate HUMAN actions. [organisms] "...take decisions to deal with unforeseen difficulties." (Brian Ford discussing the intelligence of amoeba)


• ITS Australia
• Intelematics Australia
• ITS America
• NHTSA ITS
• ITS Japan (previously VERTIS)
• ERTICO - Europe + eSafety.
• 8th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems - Sydney 30 Sep - 4 Oct 2001
• ISO Technical Committee TC204.
• SAE-Aust: Conference on Intelligent Vehicles and Road Infrastructure to be held at The University of Melbourne during the period 16th and 17th of February 2005.
• Thinking Highways - UK magazine

Electronic magazines

• Motorweb
• Carnet
• Drive - Sydney Morning Herald
• Fastlane
• Popular Mechanics - Buyers Guide
• Eauto.com.au
• AutoSpeed - more about performance than safety but a good forum to increase road safety awareness
• AutoWeb.
• Overdrive.
• GoAuto.
• Vision Zero International

Australian manufacturers/distributors

These sites tend to be  full of eye-catching graphics (and the URL frequently changes). They are slow to load and it is very difficult to narrow in on safety information unless you go to the specs on specific models  (I gave up trying to find "safety" pages).
• Ford + Safety Press Releases from Ford US.
• Holden
• Mitsubishi
• Toyota
• Mercedes Benz
• Volvo
• Renault.
• Lexus.

Sites with more links

• Crash test partners
• Transportation Research Board(USA)
• Princeton University
• Drive Links - Sydney Morning Herald automotive links
• CNN Automotive News
• Hyperbanner
• Japanese automotive links. (dropped)
  
• American Automotive Design - hundreds of links (updated URL)
  
• TrafficLinq - great search system.
• Motorzoo.
• Red Book.
  
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Road Users (these are just a few of many sites on this topic)


Drivers and general
• Warrington Group of Advanced Motorists (UK)
• Driving On-line (UK)
• National Group Rides And Designated Drivers - US-based drink drive safety group
• International Association of Road Rage Experts (New)
• Institute of Driver Development Western Australia - specialise in the development of driver training and assessment programs and processes
• Drivers.com with info about novice drivers and a great Links Page.
• Association for Safe International Road Travel (ASIRT) provides tips for international travellers about the risks of road travel in each nation.
• Learn-2-live -UK
• Driving from "L" to "P" - book by Trevor Hobbs
• Road Safety Website - NSW
• ADVOCATES FOR HIGHWAY AND AUTO SAFETY (US).
• SpeedImpact - Victorian organisation highlights the problems on our roads particularly the speeding/drink/drug driving problems.
• Roadwatch.com.au - helping drivers avoid fatigue
• Safe rural roads - USA
• Pedestrian Council of Australia.
• CARS - A Road Victim Support Group based in Queensland
• SpeedImpact.org.
• Consumer Reports - USA
• Driving Plus Motor School - Adelaide
• Teenagers Road Accident Group - Victoria
• the Sink - Canadian site.
• Road Supervisors' Network.
• Traffic Offenders Program - Australia
• Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS)
• BBC Safe driving tips.
• Prevention Routiere International + French organsiation: La Prévention Routière
• Drive and Stay Alive - USA
• Brake is a UK road safety charity dedicated to stopping deaths and injuries on roads through awareness-raising campaigns,
• ArriveAlive - road safety in South Africa.
• Driver ZED - teenage driver resources
• Road 2 Survival - by Dr Bill Griggs, Director of Trauma Services at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia
• ArriveSafe.org and Chandigarh Traffic Police - India
• New Zealand Campaign Against Drugs on Roads (CANDOR)
• Green Flag - UK
• Fun and Safe Driving
• Road Safety at Work of GeoLibrary.org
• The DUI Foundation, New York.
• Road Traffic Accidents - UK - advice and support + Bike Devil Net
• Buzzy - award-winning road safety songs by John Chambers
• Suncorp: Queensland Road Safety.

 
Cycling
• The Effectiveness of Bicycle Helmets:A Review (by Michael Henderson).
• Pedestrian and cyclists safety research page - US government.
• FHWA Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Research Program.
• Is Cycling Dangerous?
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Consultants and Research Organisations in the Vehicle Safety Field

"An expert is someone brought in at the last minute to share some of the blame"
Note: Change the AT in the email address to @

Sydney, Australia
• Michael Paine, Vehicle Design & Research P/L
• Michael Henderson(now retired) - unofficial bio
• Michael Griffiths Road Safety Solutions P/L, phone 95402734
• Palle Johansen (email)
• Julie Brown (email)
• Tom Gibson (email), Human Impact Engineering.
• Keith Pettigrew (email)
• Paul Kelly (email)
• John Jamieson, Jamieson Foley
• Liz de Rome - LdeR Consulting
• Keith Rigby (email)
• Nimmi Magedara Ph: (02) 9449 4224, Mob: 0408 222 554
• Ian Faulks  Safety and Policy Analysis International Ph: 9487 2727
• Dept of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney (Andrei Lozzi)
• Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute (Lynne Bilston)
  
• Crashlab NSW Roads & Traffic Authority crash test facility - Manager Ross Dal Nevo (for samples of their crash testing see ANCAP entries in the offset crash test list)
• SINTA - Special Interest Network for Transport in Australia - project by UTS.
• Nautitech Australia - has recently won engineering excellence awards for the VW DCT transmission and an Australian six speed automatic transmission.
• NRMA Insurance (IAG) Research Centre - Newington, Sydney
• Check-it - Damage and repair assessment
• Vehicle safety compliance cerfication scheme (VSCCS) list of licensed vehicle certifiers.  (PDF) - for modified and imported vehicles



Other Australian
• [Institution of] Engineers Australia - National Panel on Biomechanics of Impact Injury (updated URL)
• Centre for Automotive Safety Research (formerly RARU) The University of Adelaide (Jack McLean, Robert Anderson). CASR does pedestrian protection tests for ANCAP.
• WHO Collaborating Centre for the Prevention of Road Traffic Accidents - University of Western Australia (Delia Hendrie) Note that Tony Ryan has retired but can be contacted by email.
• Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC - Brian Fildes, Max Cameron, Stuart Newstead...).
  
• Monash Civil Engineering department does virtual crash simulations. Crashworthiness & Road Safety - IEAust Warren Medal award winning papers by Raphael Grzebieta and George Rechnitzer
• DVExperts - George Rechnitzer and Shane Richardson.
  
• Melbourne Uni Research Centre for Advanced By-Wire Technologies (RABIT) - Craig Fletcher (email).
  
• University of New England (Australia) offers a post graduate distance education study program in road safety.
• ANU Engineering 4221 - a student's assignment.
• ARRB ARRB Transport Research (formerly Australian Road Research Board) - ARRB road safety contacts register.
  
• Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety - Queensland Uni. Fleet Safety Report. Dr Will Murray.
  
• Injuries Australia
• Loadsafe - Richard Larsen, Queensland
• Ian Pettigrew (email) - Queensland
• Transport Roundtable - Phil Charles
• Bob Pearson (email) - Victoria
• Mike Upton (email) - Western Australia. Ph 08 9243 7625
• RTDynamics
• Mechanical System Dynamics - Hans Prem
• ADVEA Engineering - Melbourne - Josef Tomas
• Australasian College of Road Safety - Archive of Annual Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference Proceedings.
• List of consultants who do ADR certifications.
  
  
International
• Transport Engineering Research New Zealand Limited - Peter Baas, John de Pont
  
• Rona Kinetics, Jocelyn Pedder, Canada (email)
• Don Friedman, USA (email) Xprts - dynamic rollover testing
• Hamilton Associates more road safety links
• Failure Analysis Associates - now Exponent, USA
• Birmingham University Centre for Automotive Safety (Accident Research Centre) (Murray Mackay)
• Loughborough University Vehicle Safety Research Centre - Pete Thomas
• University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). Search UMTRI's extensive library catalogue. Director Peter Sweatman.
• Vehicle Systems and Safety Program - Pennsylvania State University (Donald A. Streit, Sean Brennan), USA.
• Automobile Safety Laboratory - University of Virginia, USA.
• Cambridge University Dept of Engineering & Vehicle/Roads Email Network (David Cebon)
• INRETS French road safety research (Mike Regan)
• TRL UK road research
• Automotive Consulting Engineers - UK
  
• Engineering Research(Sweden)
• Chalmers University - School of Mechanical and Vehicular Engineering(Sweden)
• Lund University(Sweden)
• Japan Automobile Research Institute.
• KATRI - Korean Automobile Test and Research Institute (Dr Gyuhyun Kim)
• Korean University of Technology & Education: School of Mechatronics Engineering (Prof Young-Han Youn)
• Children's Hospital of Philiadelphia - TraumaLink publications (Kristy Arbogast, Dennis Durbin, Rajiv Menon, Flaura Winston...)
• HILTech Developments - electric vehicles 
• Jeanne Breen Consulting (email) - London
• Accident Reconstruction Network.
• Leonard Evans - Traffic Safety papers. 
• Safety and Policy Analysis International - Kathryn Stewart, - NSW office: Ian Faulks Ph: 9487 2727 (sadly Barry Sweedler died on 27 Oct 2009)
• Virtual Risk Manager - Dr Will Murray
• Crashworthy.com - vehicle defect litigation.
• Mechanical Simulation Corporation (Tom Gillespie)
  

More links

• Yahoo - Automotive Research
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