During the past 16 years, the road accident fatality rate in the State of Victoria has been reduced from being one of the highest among motorised countries to among the lowest. It has dropped progressively from 8.1 deaths per 10,000 registered vehicles in 1970 to 2.7 in 1986.The paper examines various countermeasures which have contributed to this reduction, as applied to road users, vehicles and the road system. These include compulsory use of seat belts, drink/driving countermeasures, motorcycle engine capacity limits for novice riders, promotion of bicycle safety helmets, vehicle safety features, accident black-spot programs, roadside hazard reduction and various traffic engineering treatments. An attempt is made to predict future directions for measures aimed at reducing either the incidence of crashes or their severity.


    Zugriff

    Zugriff prüfen

    Verfügbarkeit in meiner Bibliothek prüfen

    Bestellung bei Subito €


    Exportieren, teilen und zitieren



    Titel :

    Road Safety in Victoria - An Overview


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Beteiligte:
    Vulcan, Peter (Autor:in) / Cave, Tim (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    4th International Pacific Conference on Automotive Engineering ; 1987



    Erscheinungsdatum :

    08.11.1987




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch




    Road safety in Victoria - an overview

    Vulcan,P. / Cave,T. / Monash Univ.,Accident Research Centre,AU et al. | Kraftfahrwesen | 1987


    Road design in Victoria

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1946


    Effects of drugs (other than alcohol) on road safety in Victoria

    Richardson, J. / International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety | British Library Conference Proceedings | 1997


    Overview of road safety activities

    Nesterenko Grigory / Nesterenko Irina / Dorokhin Sergey et al. | DOAJ | 2024

    Freier Zugriff

    Victoria docks road improvement scheme

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1934