Our road safety research aims to mitigate crash risks and knowledge gaps.
Road Safety
Latest publications and webinars
- AP-R613-20
- 18 February 2020
- Research Reports
This report provides an Australian policy and regulatory framework to encourage effective reforms to reduce and prevent drink driving and riding. The key recommendations to reduce drink driving across Australia include: extending a…
- AP-R611-20
- 4 February 2020
- Research Reports
The Movement and Place Framework is increasingly used to guide transport planning in delivering a more integrated transport system to improve customer outcomes and support a range of user groups. Work is already underway in some jurisdictions to…
- AP-C108-20
- 22 January 2020
- Corporate Reports
These principles represent Australia’s strategic approach to managing enforcement of travel speeds on the nation’s roads. The principles form guidance and acknowledge jurisdictional variations in the development of policies,…
Austroads' Road Safety Task Force and their projects.
An overview of the Guide to Road Safety which examines road crash costs and road agencies’ duty of care to provide safe travel.
A reference tool for road engineering practitioners outlining best-practice, low cost, high return road environment measures to achieve a reduction in road trauma.
An online tool that helps practitioners carry out road safety audits.
Road safety projects
The Austroads research program runs from 2016-20, in line with the Strategic Plan. Current road safety projects include: