Max Cameron

Max Cameron is a Principal Research Fellow in the Monash University Accident Research Centre. He was formerly an Adjunct Professor within the Centre while on secondment from VicRoads. He holds an M.Sc. in mathematical statistics and is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. During 2000, Max was awarded a Ph.D. for his thesis on statistical evaluation of road trauma countermeasures.

He has worked in the road safety field in Australia since 1965, with extensive experience in road safety research and its management, and in road safety policy formulation and strategic planning. He has special skills in road crash data analysis and countermeasure evaluation in the behavioural, vehicle and road environment safety areas.

His research interests at MUARC have included rating the crashworthiness of cars, and evaluations of the Victorian speed camera program, the random breath test "booze bus" program, the high-profile mass media publicity supporting each of these, and the economic benefits of these road safety measures.

In recent years he has provided consultancy advice to the SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research in the Netherlands, the government of the Republic of Ireland, the KwaZulu-Natal provincial government in South Africa, the Land Transport Safety Authority in New Zealand, and road safety agencies throughout Australia. He has also played a key role in the Safety Rating Advisory Committee (SARAC) projects for the European Commission.