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Safety Science, Biomechanics and Innovation
The Safety Science, Biomechanics & Innovation (SSBI) team is a multidisciplinary team working predominantly in the areas of vehicle and road safety, crash investigation and analysis, and vehicle and traffic related occupational health and safety.
Team members:
The team members have backgrounds in engineering, biomechanics, psychology/human factors and statistics. Specialist expertise of the team members include: injury biomechanics, computer modelling and simulation, crash (and other injury-causing event) investigation and reconstruction, the design of safe vehicles for application in industrial settings, evaluation of the effectiveness of new technologies using HARM and other metrics, and road and traffic engineering.
In addition to providing research and consultancy services, the team regularly provides specialist training for professionals working in related areas. In particular, courses are run regularly in the Biomechanics of Injury and Vehicle Crashworthiness. The team also includes a qualified Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) trainer who regularly provides AIS training through the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine.
Projects
Occupant Protection
- Evaluation of models for brain injury prediction through full-scale crash reconstructions (Auto CRC)
- Occupant scaling (Auto CRC)
- HARM analysis of new in-vehicle safety technologies (Auto CRC)
- Investigation of occupant protection in far-side crashes (Australian Research Council)
In-depth Crash Investigation
- Australian National Crash In-depth Study (ANCIS Consortium)
- Enhanced crash investigation (ECI) project (VicRoads)
- Enhanced motorcycle crash investigation (EMCI) project (VicRoads/ Victorian Motorcycle Advisory Council)
Road Safety
- Management of speed attitudes (AustRoads)
- Railway crossing advice (Department of Justice, Vic)
- A review of the literature and evaluation of physical on road-measures to modify driver behaviour with particular reference to lower class roads (VicRoads)
Crash Analysis
- TRaffic Accident Causation in Europe, TRACE (European Commission)
- Multi National Vehicle Safety Mass Data Study - To examine possibilities and likelihood of establishing a large European database for on-going benefit analyses of safety technologies (Swedish Road Administration)
- Review of the extent of bus crashes and incidents in Dubai and development of a strategy for addressing these problems in the future (SERCO Consultants)
- Involvement of inappropriate and excessive speed in fatal motorcycle crashes (VicRoads)
Occupational Health and Safety
- Review traffic volumes and flow around the Shell Geelong Refinery (Shell Refining)
- In-vehicle use of the VACIS ePCR (Rural Ambulance Victoria)
- Enhanced safe riding for motorcycle postal delivery officers (Australia Post)
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