Our road safety research aims to mitigate crash risks and knowledge gaps.
Road Safety
Latest publications and webinars
- WEB-ZRT-24
- 8 February 2024
- Webinars
This webinar explores how to use backcasting, a vision-based planning approach, to determine what the metrics of a safe road system should look like in order to achieve zero road trauma and how the current road system is tracking towards this desired…
- WEB-DRIS-24
- 30 January 2024
- Webinars
Transport Ministers have agreed in-principle to an improved, nationally‑consistent approach to the training and licence progression of heavy vehicle drivers. The approved changes are designed to increase the safety and job‑readiness of heavy vehicle…
- AP-R700-23
- 20 December 2023
- Research Reports
This report details road and transport safety interventions that can reduce fatal and serious injury crashes in regional and remote areas. It contains the factsheets, prioritisation framework, and evaluation framework from the report Practical…
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.
The Road Safety Engineering Toolkit was a reference tool for road engineering practitioners in state and local governments. The Toolkit was permanently withdrawn from use in April 2021.
The Road Safety Audit (RSA) Toolkit was an online tool that assisted practitioners to carry out road safety audits. The Toolkit was permanently withdrawn from use in April 2021.
Austroads new project – Charting a path to eliminating road death and serious injury – is focused on developing a path to zero deaths and serious injuries through a holistic approach to the safety of all people using the road.
The AusRAP program is intended to lead and assist jurisdictions and local government to maximise the road safety trauma reduction in their management of, and investment in, Australian roads.
Road safety projects
Our schedule of projects continually evolves meet tour members' needs. Current projects include: