Program

Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference October 25-27 2006
Holiday Inn, Surfers Paradise, Queensland
Tuesday 24th October	Registration on level one of the Holiday Inn opens at 3.00pm
Tuesday 24th October	Welcome reception in "Art Gallery Collections" commences at 5.30 pm
Wednesday 25th October
8.30am-9.00am	Official Opening and Welcome - Bruce Wilson Director-General (Queensland Transport) Commissioner Bob Atkinson (Queensland Police Service) Fiona McKersie, Director-General (Department of Emergency Services) Welcome to Country - Beverley Leeson - Yugambeh Museum Language & Heritage Research Centre
9.00am-9.45am	Keynote Address - Anthony Bliss - "Smarter, Safer - Critical issues and priorities for Global Road Safety: A World Bank Perspective"
9.45am-10.30am	Keynote Address - Jean Shope - "Graduated Driver Licensing: What we know and what we need to do"
10.30am - 11.00am	MORNING TEA
11.00am - 12.30pm	Motorcycle Crashes and Training	Emergency Services and Road Safety	Traffic Psychology	Fleet Management and Safety	Applying ITS
Session one (parallel)	Motorcycle Crashes and Training	Emergency Services and Road Safety	Traffic Psychology	Fleet Management and Safety	Applying ITS
	Dr Ron Christie	Lee Johnson - Qld Fire & Rescue Commissioner	Dr Kerry Armstrong	Dr Jeremy Davey	John Wall
	Motorcyclist fatality and motorcycle sales patterns in Australia: An update	"What happens post-crash: The role that the Queensland Fire and Rescue Service plays at road accidents and how this has changed over the years."	Psychosocial influences on young Australian University students decisions to ride with a drink driver.	A study predicting self-reported crashes among fleet drivers	The development of a wet weather speed limit ITS trial on a NSW freeway
	Christine Mulvihill	Jim Higgins - QLD Ambulance Service Commissioner	Judy Fleiter	Darren Wishart	Samantha Chen
	Teaching old dogs new tricks?: Training older motorcyclists	Emergency Services and Road Safety - specifically what Queensland Ambulance Service is doing to contribute to road safety	Significant others, who are they? - Examining normative influences on speeding.	An application of the Driver Attitude Questionnaire to examine driving behaviours within an Australian organisational fleet setting	Assessing crash risks on curves.
	Liz de Rome		Tanya Smyth	Bevan Rowland	Andreas Blahous
	Planning for motorcyclists and their safety initiatives in 2006 compared to 2001		Driver-vehicle interactions in 4WDs: A theoretical review	Integration of work-related fleet safety within a workplace health and safety management system: A case study approach	National ITS strategy
	A/Prof Barry Watson		Stephen Spalding	Snr Sgt Peter Baird	Dr Andry Rakotonirainy
	A comparison of the crash involvement of unlicensed motorcycle riders and unlicensed drivers in Queensland		Motor vehicle safety levels – considerations for consumers in used vehicle purchasing decisions	The transfer of stress to the driving environment in a fleet sample	Comparing driving behaviour between 4WD and sedan vehicles: Preliminary results
12.30pm-1.30pm	LUNCH
1.30pm-3.00pm	Graduated Driver Licensing	Crash Studies	Older Road User Crashes	Heavy Vehicles and Road Safety
Session two (parallel)	Graduated Driver Licensing	Crash Studies	Older Road User Crashes	Heavy Vehicles and Road Safety
	Lyndel Bates	Prof Jack McLean	John Catchpole	Dr Stuart Newstead
	Competitors or complements: Driver education and graduated driver licensing	Characteristics of rollover crashes	Why do older drivers have a high rate of involvement in casualty accidents per distance driven?	The influence of trends in heavy vehicle travel on road trauma in the light vehicle fleet.
	Grant Solomon	Dr Jeremy Woolley	Dr Jennifer Oxley	Rena Friswell
	Queensland young driver community engagement process	The Adelaide Metropolitan at-scene crash investigation study 2002-2005	Some factors that may increase crash risk of older female drivers	Work and fatigue among light truck and short haul drivers in NSW
	Dr Rebecca Ivers	A/Prof Drew Richardson	Jim Langford	A/Prof Ann Williamson
	Supervised driving experience in learner drivers – the DRIVE study	Amalgamation of police and hospital trauma data in the Australian Capital Territory 2002-2003	Assessing and managing older drivers’ crash risk using Safe System principles	Fatigue and stimulant use by long distance truck drivers
	Jodie-Anne Mak	Dr Peter Hillard	Jim Langford... cont	Dr Herbert Biggs
	Youth at risk - how do they get their driver's licence?	Tackling the causes of serious injury crashes		Fatigue issues for metropolitan bus drivers: Ramifications of quantitative & qualitative research findings for safety management
3.00pm-3.30pm	AFTERNOON TEA
3.30pm-5.00pm	Young Driver Research	Traffic Culture	Vision and Safety	Fatigue	Crash Testing
Session three (parallel)	Young Driver Research	Traffic Culture	Vision and Safety	Fatigue	Crash Testing
	Dr Tony Machin	A/Prof Malcolm Vick	Prof Joanne Wood	Snr Sgt Peter Baird	Dr Stuart Newstead
	Factors influencing young drivers’ risk perceptions and speeding behaviour	Poststructuralist theory and methodology: a complementary approach to road safety research	Predictors of older driver safety measured under in-traffic road conditions	Will I wake up? A presentation on fatigue, showing innovative measure working with road safety partners to address the problem	Study of the relationship between injury outcomes in police reported crash data and crash barrier test results in Europe and Australia
	Ralston Fernandes	A/Prof Dr Malcolm Vick	Efty Stavrou	Peter Rowden	Dr Robert Anderson
	Predictors of speeding, drink-driving, driving while fatigued and seat belt use among young NSW drivers	"Running on empty: - culture factors and driving tired	Road incident occurrence & vision and functional characteristics of older drivers.	Fatigue in motorcycle crashes: Is there an issue?	Testing the pedestrian safety of bull bars: Methods and results
	Ben Lewis- Evans	Dr Sarah Redshaw	Dr Nicholas Burns	Dr Tanya Styles	Lisa Sharwood
	An examination of what the currently available data can tell use about the effects on offence and crash history of two driver education programmes	Dangerous gender performances: 'Hydraulic masculinity' as a norm for young male drivers	Development of peripheral vision tests for driver assessment	Drivers' understanding of fatigue management and countermeasures	The influence of Body Mass Index and weight on injury severity in motor vehicle crashes
	Dr Suzanne McEvoy	Dr Mark King	Dr Michael White	Andrew Hawkins	Lynne Bilston
	The impact of driver distraction on young drivers	Improving road safety transfer from highly motorised countries to less motorised countries	“Sorry, mate, I didn’t see you”: A plausible scientific explanation	Tired of raising awareness of driver fatigue? Push on.	Misuse of child restraints and injury outcome in crashes

6.30pm - late	Pre dinner drinks commence followed by the Conference Dinner at Holiday Inn at 7.00 pm
Thursday 26th October
9.am-9.30am	Keynote Address - Liisa Hakamies-Blomqvist - Older Drivers: A challenge or an opportunity
9.30am-10am	Keynote Address – David Healy - "ITS and Road Safety - Where to from here?"
10.00am-10.30am	Keynote Address - Mary Sheehan - Ten years back & ten years forward: are we Smarter and Safety?
10.30am - 11.00am	MORNING TEA
11.00am - 12.30pm	Enforcement Programs	Rural Crashes	Perception and Self-Awareness	Engineering & Road Safety	Child Restraint Wearing
Session four (parallel)	Enforcement Programs	Rural Crashes	Perception and Self-Awareness	Engineering & Road Safety	Child Restraint Wearing
	Snr Sgt Dan Heenan	Ross Blackman	Neryla Jolly	Greg Smith	Dr Lynne Bilston
	Traffic incident management in Queensland from a policing perspective	This is what happened: A narrative analysis of what was happening immediately prior to road crashes	Increasing senior driver safety through vision tests and education - A community based program.	AusRAP star ratings for the Australian National Network	Restraint usage by Australian children – what are they using and why?
	Vera Perry	Gayle Sticher	Trent Carberry	Michael Tziotis	Dr Robert Anderson
	Risk targeted road policing in New Zealand: being smarter and safer in deploying resources to reduce road trauma	Assessment of personal crash risk among rural drivers: Perception versus reality	Self-awareness of driving impairment in patients with cataract or glaucoma	Road safety engineering risk assessment – recent and future research	Results and implications of a survey of child restraint use in South Australia
	Peter Kolesnik	Wei Du	Peter Denton	Dr Peter Cenek	Dr Alexia Lennon
	Australasian Traffic Policing Forum	Injury patterns in child vehicle occupants from rural and urban areas in NSW, 2000-2005	Conditions change so should you	Modelling and analysis of crash densities for Karangahake Gorge, New Zealand	Parental perceptions of the barriers to choosing the rear seat of vehicles for children.
	A/Prof Jeremy Davey	Dale Steinhardt	Ben Lewis-Evans	Glen Koorey	Dr Paul Roberts
	Screening for drugs in oral fluid: illicit use and drug driving in a random sample	A comparison of offroad and onroad crashes in rural and remote Queensland	Explicit and implicit processes in behavioural adaptation to road width.	Application of IHSDM highway safety modelling in New Zealand	Lessons and results from the observational study for motor vehicle restraint use in Western Australia
12.30pm-1.30pm	LUNCH
1.30pm-3.00pm	Offenders and Penalties	Education and Communities	Vigilance and Distraction	Engineering & Road Safety II	Vulnerable Road Users
Session five (parallel)	Lisa Wundersitz	Roger Farley	Prof Ashley Craig	Sanjeev Shami	Melinda Congiu
	Personality characteristics and attitudes of young traffic offenders	A pilot project communicating with Aboriginal people in north-west Western Australia	Risk factors associated with driver fatigue	Reducing accidents by improving road safety infrastructure	Crossing roads safely: An experimental study of age and gender differences in gap selection by child pedestrians
	Rebecca Ivers	Geoff Frier & Grant Douglas	Rebecca Michael	Rob McInerney	Bruce Corben
	Alcohol and drug use and risky driving in young people: the DRIVE study	Safer roads through community partnerships – recent experience in Tasmania.	Sustained attention and hypovigilance: The effect of environmental monotony on continuous task performance	Safer Roads - A smarter way to target investment: The Gold Coast experience	Estimating pedestrian fatal crash risk
	Alexandra Long	Neil Thomson	Dr Julie Hatfield	Mark Logan & Patrick McShane	Dr Robert Anderson
	Reduction of speed limit from 110km/h to 100km/h on certain roads in South Australia: a preliminary evaluation	Indigenous road safety Clearinghouse	The impact of in-car displays on drivers in neighbouring cars: survey and driving simulator experiment	Emerging crash test analysis	A survey of bicycle helmet use in South Australian primary schools
	Nerida Leal	Gavin Maisey	Dr Julia Irwin	Dallas Lee	Dennis Walsh
	Drink driver offender profiling	Press vibes & videotapes - a peer road safety education project	Can you talk and drive safely at the same time? An examination of gender differences in driving performance of young drivers observed whilst conversing with a passenger or on a mobile phone.	The joys of watching paint dry (or the Brisbane City Council pavement marking materials trial)	Does more cycling mean less safety
3.00pm-3.30pm	AFTERNOON TEA
3.30pm-5.00pm	Panel Discussion, Awards and Conclusions

Friday 27th October
	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4	(Offsite)
	Workshop 1	Workshop 2	Workshop 3	Workshop 4	Workshop 5
8.30am-10.30am	Heavy Vehicles	Policing	Older Road Users	Community and School Road Safety Education	Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)
	Heavy Vehicles	Policing	Older Road Users	Community and School Road Safety Education	Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)
	Chair: Jeff Potter The Workshop will comprise a mixture of presentations and a panel discussion. Topics to be covered include current heavy vehicle safety status and trends, the Twice the Task challenges and crash causation studies...	Chair: Kerry Dunn This workshop will focus on the application of traffic intelligence as applied within various police jurisdictions Presenters are:- Superintendent Peter Keogh from VIC Police Commander John Hartly from NSW Police Sergeant Cameron Wilson from QLD Police	Chair: Jim Langford 1. Introduction - overview of Australian and international licensing procedures - Session Chair 2. Jim Langford - Crash risk and licensing implications Basic message: de-constructing the U-shaped curve to show that older drivers as a group do not have heightened crash risk, even considering per-km crash rates. A minority of older drivers are unfit to drive – the trick is to identify them. 3. Joanne Wood - ‘Normal ageing’, medical conditions, functional decline and crash risk - Basic message: normal ageing is associated with a range of medical conditions and a range of functional impairments. What and how? To what extent can these conditions and functional changes be associated with increased crash risk? 4. Matthew Baldock - To what extent is the impact of ‘normal ageing’ counteracted by self-regulation? - Basic message: most older drivers wholly or largely counteract functional impairments by altering their driving habits. What evidence is there for self-regulation? What do we know about non self-regulators? 5.Tricia Williams - Licensing procedures: assessing the safety benefits of mandatory assessment - Basic message: a review of evaluations of age-based mandatory assessment programs for older drivers, show no demonstrable safety benefits.	Chair: Ruth LLoyd 1. Rebekah Smith (RACV Victoria) - "Traffic Safety Education – Street Scene Program Evaluation". 2. Dr Maureen Owen (Youthsafe - NSW) - "Smarter, safer... and on the way to high school".	Chair: Dennis Walsh
10.30am-11.00am	MORNING TEA				Morning Tea on site
11.00am-12.30pm	cont... actions underway at present on fatigue, seatbelt wearing, rest area reviews, the front under-run protection/axle mass package and speeding policy; a summary of current research activities in pro-gress around Australia and an industry perspective on their actions and priorities for improving heavy vehicle safety.		6. Jennie Oxley - Disbenefits of mandatory assessment Basic message: a review of evaluations of age-based mandatory assessment programs for older drivers, show no demonstrable disadvantages (mobility, health, economic, social, quality of life and age discrimination consequences) 7. Jude Charlton - An alternative assessment strategy to age-based assessment/lcensing Basic message: overview of the Austroads licensing model for older drivers 8. Peteris Darzins - Key components of alternative licensing models: i) ‘Across-the-board’ v targeted assessment (Nomogram for Bayes’ Theorem ) ii) Michael White - What does the UFOV actually measure? 9. Jim Stiles - Case study: Albany WA 10. Liisa Hakamies-Blomqvist - Commentary 11. Open forum – questions, discussion, and outcomes, recommendations Session Chair.	3. Assistant Police Commissioner John McRoberts and Jane Burke (WA) "The Story of Tom Brennan". 4. Roger Farley (Office of Road Safety WA) - "A Partnership Approach to Achieve Shared Responsibility for Road Safety".
		Policing			(ITS)
					Full Day


12.30 pm	LUNCH and CLOSE				Lunch on site
					(ITS) Full Day
Four Workshops are half day and finish with lunch, the ITS offsite workshop is for a full day.					Afternoon tea on site 5.00 return to Holiday Inn by Coach - arrive at 5.30pm