Despite claims that lowering speed limits will harm the economy, evidence suggests journey times are hardly affected. And beyond reducing the road toll, there are health and climate benefits, too.
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Changes to the Highway Code have created a hierarchy of road users, prioritising the most vulnerable.
Countries around the world are managing to reduce their road deaths to zero. There are ways Australia can get there too.
While the road toll has come down over the decades, it’s largely a result of fewer car occupants dying. Pedestrian deaths have barely changed for a decade, but they remain a road safety blind spot.
The push for 30km/h speed limits is not about revenue-raising or anti-cars. Even a seemingly small decrease from 40km/h to 30km/h makes a huge difference to the safety and liveability of local streets.
Delivery riders are paying the ultimate price for the fact that our cities, their infrastructure and the rules governing them make cycling much more dangerous than it should be.
Our research calculates how dangerous different vehicles are to other people.
What should be done to ensure that the SDGs actually change countries’ development trajectories? Here are four practical steps.
UN is seeking to halve global road deaths and injuries by 2020, but many poorer countries are moving in the wrong direction.
Road traffic injuries are one of the leading causes of death worldwide.
In the wake of a self-driving Uber car killing a pedestrian in Arizona, an ethicist examines the state of autonomous vehicle development.
Wider societal issues are driving road user behaviour, which cannot be fixed by taking a traditional road safety approach.
It’s time for Australia’s personal injury insurance schemes to start preparing for change.
A new study has reported injuries are the greatest cause of death in Australian kids.
Car seats and their endless harnesses, straps and buckles feel like an engineering nightmare for parents. But they work.
In contrast to increases in vehicle safety over the decades, we have seen little new technology to ensure the safety of pedestrians – and current innovations are still based on a car-centric approach.
Road safety is a seriously important public policy issue. Around 1.3 million people die in road crashes around the world each year. Among teenagers and young adults, road crashes are the number-one cause…
The damning report of the Royal Commission into the Home Insulation Program (HIP) was released on Monday. It cites multiple failures of ministers and public servants to foresee and prevent circumstances…
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor and Head of Sustainable Mobility and Safety Research, Monash University
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Adjunct professor, University of New England
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UMass Lowell
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor in Law, UNSW Sydney
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Adjunct Research Fellow, UniSA Justice and Society, University of South Australia
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Associate professor, George Institute for Global Health
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Professor of Transport, University of Westminster
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Professor of Human Factors, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Principal Research Associate, University of Cambridge
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Senior Research Fellow in Human Factors & Sociotechnical Systems, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Applied Health Research, University of Stirling
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Research Fellow, University of Sydney
