Urban areas

Driving in urban areas may present challenges such as frequent stopping and starting, heavy traffic and the presence of vulnerable road users including pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists.

Auto CRC traffic probe (2007 - 2009)

Delineating injury patterns and safety behaviours among cyclist groups (2007 - in progress)

A comparison of driving performance and behaviour in 4WDs vs sedans (2005 - 2006)

Evaluation of the lockout liquor trading hours in Brisbane City and Fortitude Valley (2005 - 2006)

Recent publications by CARRS-Q researchers include:

Steinhardt, Dale A. and Sheehan, Mary C. and Siskind, Victor (2009) The effectiveness of using a simple ARIA based geographical classification to identify road crash patterns in rural and urban areas of Queensland.  In: Proceedings of 2009 Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, 11-13 November 2009, Sydney, New South Wales.

Schramm, Amy J. and Rakotonirainy, Andry (2009) The effect of road lane width on cyclist safety in urban areas.  In: Proceedings of the 2009 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference : Smarter, Safer Directions, 10-12 November 2009, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Sydney.

Armstrong, Kerry A. and Smith, Simon S. and Steinhardt, Dale A. and Haworth, Narelle L. (2008) Fatigue crashes happen in urban areas too : characteristics of crashes in low speed urban areas.  In: 2008 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, 10-12 November 2008, Adelaide, South Australia.

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