Work in Progress at MUARC
Vehicle safety
A project to review traffic volumes and flow around the Shell Geelong Refinery and assist Shell in updating traffic management procedures and vehicle usage policies
Sponsor: Shell
Contact: Peter Hillard
Ambulance new vehicle evaluation
Sponsor: Metropolitan Ambulance Service (MAS)
Contact: David Logan
Australian National Crash In-depth Study (ANCIS)
Sponsor: Various sponsors
Contact: David Logan
China booster seats
Sponsor: CCHIPS
Contact: Joan Ozanne-Smith
Enhanced crash investigation
Sponsor: VicRoads
Contact: Brian Fildes
Farside crash investigation
Sponsor: Australian Research Council
Contact: Brian Fildes
Feasibility of conducting a roadside observational survey of mobile phone use
Sponsor: VicRoads
Contact: Michael Lenne
Light vehicle benchmark tool - aims to assess the benefits of vehicle safety policy and consumer programs in improving secondary safety of the NZ fleet and to quantify the contribution of improved vehicle secondary safety to reducing road trauma.
Sponsor: Ministry of Transport, New Zealand
Contact: Stuart Newstead
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.
Sponsor: Swedish Road Administration (SRA)
Contact: Brian Fildes
Non-wearing of seatbelts
Sponsor: AustRoads
Contact: Jennie Oxley
NSW Police Association - This work will examine the design of police vehicles and the interaction between the vehicle and the police appointments (utility) belt.
Sponsor: WorkCover
Contact: Michael Lenne
Safer fleet vehicle benefit
Sponsor: AustRoads
Contact: Stuart Newstead
This project aims to study the crashworthiness profile of vehicles owned and crashed by young drivers to establish how vehicle choice contributes as a factor to the young driver problem.
Sponsor: Royal Automobile Club of Victoria (RACV)
Contact: Stuart Newstead
To develop and pilot a set of supplementary questions about driver distraction to be collected as part of the ANCIS driver interviews. The data obtained through these questions will be used to establish the role of driver distraction in road crashes.
Sponsor: VicRoads
Contact: Michael Lenne
Train LAB accidentologists in the use of AIS scale; and to evaluate new technologies using methods including HARM and to apply the Total Secondary Safety Index to French data
Sponsor: Laboratory of Accidentology, Biomechanics and human behaviour (LAB)
Contact: Brian Fildes
Vehicle crashworthiness
Sponsor: Various sponsors
Contact: Stuart Newstead
Vehicle mass crash data
Sponsor: Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB)
Contact: Stuart Newstead
The above is a list of active or recent projects. Projects may appear in more than one category.
The Baseline Research Program is sponsored by Department of Justice,
the Transport Accident Commission and VicRoads.
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