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Geneva ambassadors

In April 2007, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations hosted the World Youth Assembly for Road Safety in Geneva to address the issue of road trauma. Eight Australian youth delegates attended the Assembly, among a total of 400 people aged 25 or under from around the world. Two of the Australian delegates will address the conference and give an account of what transpired at the Assembly and an update on the major outcome of the Assembly, which was a Youth Declaration for Road Safety.


Tuesday 16 October 2007
1900

Welcome Reception
Tonic Bar at Crown Promenade


Wednesday 17 October 2007
0730 Registration Open
0900-0930

Road Safety Opening

• Official welcome

• The Hon. Tim Pallas MP, Minister for Roads and Ports

• Welcome by Subaru – Nick Senior
Managing Director, Subaru Australia
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0930-1030 Keynote Address
Jörg Beckmann
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Chair: Sue Jaquinot
1030-1100 Morning Tea / Exhibition
1100-1240 Concurrent Session 1
  Fleet Safety
Chair:
Paul Tierney

Room:
Meeting Room 6

Data analysis
Chair:
Mark Potter

Room:
Meeting Room 3

Community programs
Chair:

Rebekah Smith 

Room:
Meeting Room 6

Motorcyclists
Chair:
Barry Scott 

Room:
Promenade

Heavy vehicles
Chair:
Ross McArthur 

Room:
Meeting Room 2

Safety Ownership in the Australian Workplace and its Application to Road Safety

Tamara Banks - Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety

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Automatic collection of safety related road and roadside data

Blair Turner - ARRB

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From Pilot to Policy - Sustaining Road Safety Projects

Alison Mortimer - Fairfield City Council

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Motorcycle safety in Victoria: Black"spot" the difference

Chris Brennan - VicRoads

Kenn Beer - VicRoads

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Development of a
specialist investigation standard for heavy vehicle fatal collisions

Lyndal Bugeja - Medicine Monash University and Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine

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The Local Government Fleet Safety Project

Shane Pope - Western Australian Local Government Association

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Crash analyser for rapid diagnosis

Daniel Mustata - VicRoads

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Evaluation of two bicycle prografor primary school children in the ACT: Bike ed and the traffic centre road safety package

Kelly Imberger - ARRB

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The Motorcycle Safety Levy: Providing an integrated program to improve motorcyclist safety

Nicola Fotheringham

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The use of electronic work diaries locally and internationally to improve heavy vehicle safety

Chris Jones

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Fleet Safety: the Road from Research to Practice

Andrew Wills - Queensland Transport

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Predicting road safety strategy performance

David Logan - MUARC

 

Evaluation of the Australian Indigenous Health InfoNet's Indigenous road safety resource and yarning place

Teresa Rechichi, Office of Road Safety

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What Do We Know About Motorcycle Rider Training? A View From the Other Side of the Fence

Peter Rowden - CARRS-Q

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Heavy Vehicle Seat Belt Wearing Compliance in NZ

Debra Stearns - ACC

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FleetSafe Workshops: A Business Solution to Workplace Road Safety

Marion Pennicuik - VicRoads

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Research to improve the accuracy of economic evaluations in road safety

Blair Turner - ARRB

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An Approach to reducing motorcycle crashes - the Australian Defence Force model

Michael Tyquin - The Australian Defence Force

 

Sharing the road - what are drivers ready to learn?

Peter Cairney - ARRB

Moira Callard -
Reality Check Communication Research

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1240-1330 Lunch / Exhibition
1330-1510 Concurrent Session 2
  Engineering
Chair:
David Healy

Room:
Meeting Room 1

Communication
Chair:
John Gibson

Room:
Meeting Room 2

Enforcement
Chair:
John Ingham

Room:
Meeting Room 3

Novice drivers
Chair:
Anne Harris

Room:
Promenade

Drug driving
Chair:
Dennis Watson

Room:
Meeting Room 6

Road Safety Engineering Tool Kit

Chris Jurewicz - ARRB

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Wipe Off 5 - Social Marketing Campaign and a New Direction

John Thompson - TAC

 

Intelligent Enforcement - the key to road safety

Ray Shuey - Strategic Safety Solutions

Supported by Tenix Solutions Pty Ltd

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Improving young driver safety - Victoria's new Graduated Licensing Package & Beyond

Antonietta Cavallo - VicRoads

 

Characteristics of Fatal Crashes Involving Drugs in Victoria and Associated Contributory Factors

Michael Lenne - MUARC

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An Integrated Driver-Vehicle-Environment (I-DVE) model to assess crash risks

Andry Rakotonirainy -
CARRS-Q

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Communicating Victoria's new Graduated Licensing System

Paul Tierney - VicRoads

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The Expanding Role of Collison Reconstruction in Enforcement

Glen Urquhart

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The Crash Profile of New Zealand Novice Drivers

Carolina Lukkien - The Ministry of Transport

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Trends in alcohol and drug use in drivers killed in Victoria and future interventions

Philip Swann - VicRoads

 

Establishing a Risk based Approach for Managing Road Skid Resistance

Noppodol (Anthony) Piyapatroomi - Qld University of Technology

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Re-packaging youth road safety messages

Joanne Kemp - Youthsafe

 

Heavy Vehicles Policing - South Australia

Tony Rankine - South Australia Police

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What types of crashes do young drivers have? Implications for improving young driver safety

Antonietta Cavallo and John Catchpole - VicRoads

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Random Drug Testing of Drivers in Victoria

Martin Boorman - Victoria Police

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Strategic Road Safety Successes From Multi Disciplinary Highway Safety Reviews

Soames Job - RTA

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Operation Countdown Mobile Display Vehicle Driving Home the Road Safety Message to Young Drivers

Steve Perry - Victoria Police

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Bicycle Safety & Law Enforcement

Brett Harman - Victoria Police

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The Novice Driver Programme Trial: Concepts, Issues and Challenges

Joe Motha - ATSB

 

The Transport Accident Commision's Drug Driving Public Education Campaign

Shenagh Macrae - TAC

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1510-1530 Afternoon Tea / Exhibition
1530-1710 Concurrent Session 3
 

Vehicle Safety
Chair:
Samantha Cockfield

Room:
Meeting Room 1

Human Factors 1
Chair:
Sophie Oh

Room:
Meeting Room 2

Education
Chair:
Joan Adams

Room:
Meeting Room 3

Motorcyclists
Chair:
Jonathon Passmore

Room:
Promenade

Hoons
Chair:
Brett Harman

Room:
Meeting Room 6

Safer vehicles - the market driven approach in Victoria

David Healy - TAC

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Driver Distraction in Public Transport

Kristie Young - MUARC

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A checklist for schools to monitor Traffic Safety Education

Conrad Remenyi - Department of Education, Victoria

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Motorcycle protective clothing: Are stars better than standards?

Narelle Haworth - CARRS-Q

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Victoria's Anti-Hoon Legislation and Policing Methods used to Prevent Hooning Behaviour

Steve Perry - Victoria Police

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The uptake and expected impact of Electronic Stability Control (ESC) amongst the Australian passenger vehicle fleet

Dale Steinhardt - CARRS-Q

 

South Australia's Driver Intervention Program: Personality characteristics of participants, and their subsequent crash and offence experience

Paul Hutchinson - Centre for Automotive Safety Research

 

Being Safe Not Sorry

Henry Van Andel - Victoria Police

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Does an ecological model explain self-report motorcycle use and injuries among early adolescents?

Lisa Buckley - CARRS-Q

 

Hooning offenders and offences: Who and what are we dealing with?

Nerida Leal - CARRS-Q

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Rollover Crashworthiness: the final frontier for vehicle passive safety

Raphael Grzebieta - Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University

 

Attitudes to North Queensland road use: do hospitalised drivers/riders appear different by comparison to those not involved in crashes?

Ross Blackman - James Cook University

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Safe Routes to School - the next steps in the journey

Bill Cirocco - Department for Transport Energy and Infrastructure

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Motorcycle crash involvement as a function of self assessed riding style and rider attitudes

Christine Mulvihill - Monash University

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Hoon driving: Prevalence, Type, Characteristics and Associated Crashes

Gavan Palk -
CARRS-Q

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Ambulance vehicle crashworthiness and passive safety design - A comparative evaluation of Australian and USA design and testing standards

Nadine Levick - ESafety Foundation

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Understanding human error at intersections

Charlotte Brace - MUARC

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Evidence based practice - a tool for implementing credible and meaningful road safety education

Deb Zines & Bruno Faletti - School Drug Education and Road Aware

Joanne House & Stacey Waters - Edith Cowan University

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Moped crashes in Queensland

Angela Nielson - Queensland University of Technology

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Hoon driving: predicting involvement from social learning and deterrence perspectives

Dale Steinhardt - CARRS-Q

 

1900 Conference Dinner
Plaza Ballroom at The Regent Theatre

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Thursday 18 October 2007
0830 Registration Open
0900 - 0945

Morning Address
• Welcome

• Subaru Address - Derek Ashby, National Customer & Technical Services Manager, Subaru Australia
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• ANCAP Address - Lauchlan McIntosh AM, Chair ANCAP Australasia Limited
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• Geneva Ambassador – World Youth Ambassadors for Road Safety

Chair: Brian Negus

0945 - 1030 Keynote address
Eric Howard
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1030 - 1100 Morning Tea / Exhibition
1100 - 1240 Concurrent Session 4
  Engineering
Chair:
David Williamson

Room:
Meeting Room 1

Human factors
Chair:
Samantha Cockfield

Room:
Meeting Room 1

Pedestrians
Chair:
Linda Ivett

Room:
Meeting Room 2

Speeding
Chair:
Blair Turner

Room:
Promenade

Novice Drivers

Room:
Meeting Room 3


Vehicle Safety

 

Findings on the effectiveness of Intersection treatments included in the Statewide Black Spot Program

Nimmi Candappa - MUARC

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The prevalence of fatigue crashes and how the brain is impaired by fatigue

Philip Swann - VicRoads

 

Qualitative and quantitative pedestrian research

Greg Allsopp - Roads & Traffic Authority of NSW

 

Road Safety benefits of an across the board 50km/h urban speed limit

Jim Langford - MUARC

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The DRIVE Study: an interactive workshop

Site visit - Subaru Interactive at Docklands

Coach transfers depart at 10.45am

Crashes on curves in rural Victoria

Martin Habgood -
Road Engineering Safety

Naomi Langdon - SKM

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Fatigue as a crash factor: Applying the ATSB definition for a fatigue-involved crash to Victoria 's crash data

Mark Symmons - Monash University

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Age as a Risk Factor in Pedestrian Traffic Casualties

Becky Loo - The University of Hong Kong

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A Follow-up Evaluation of the 50km/h Default Urban Speed Limit in South Australia

Jeremy Woolley - Centre for Automotive Safety Research

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The relationship between speed limits and travel times in urban areas

Jeffery Archer - MUARC

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Night time seatbelt non-use in serious crashes: a comparison of contributing factors in rural and urban areas of the United States and Queensland, Australia.

Dale Steinhardt - CARRS-Q

 

Crossing roads safely: The effects of training on improving children's road crossing decisions

Melinda Congiu - MUARC

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Reduction of travel speeds in the Melbourne CBD after installation of repeater speed signs: Results of a controlled before-after study

Karen Stephan - Monash University Accident Research Centre

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Retro-fitting incremental clearzone widths to existing rural roads

Stephen Levett - Roads & Traffic Authority, NSW

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Fatigue and enforcement

Jeff Millar – Victoria Police

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A Comparison of the Pedestrian Passive Safety Performance of the New Vehicle Fleet in Australia, France and the United Kingdom

Daniel Searson - Centre for Automotive Safety Research, The University of Adelaide

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Choosing not to speed: A qualitative exploration of differences in perceptions about speed limit compliance and related issues

Judy Fleiter - CARRS-Q

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1240 - 1330 Lunch / Exhibition
1330 - 1415 Keynote Address
Claes Tingvall
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1415 - 1530 Concurrent Session 5
  Misc
Chair:
David Williamson

Room:
Meeting Room 3

Speeding
Chair:
David Healy

Room:
Promenade

Older road users
Chair:
Tricia Williams

Room:
Meeting Room 1

Drink driving
Chair:
Phil Wright

Room:
Meeting Room 2

Strategy related
Chair:
David Roche

Room:
Meeting Room 6

Occupational Therapy driver assessor current practice and opinions about on-road evaluation procedures for functionally impaired drivers - results of a national survey

Marilyn DiStefano - LaTrobe University

 

The role of speed camera enforcement in reducing road casualties - key program implementation issues

Brendan Facey - Department of Justice

 

Projecting the Future Burden of Older Road User Crashes in Queensland

Angela Nielson - Queensland University of Technology

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Drinking and Driving - is the status quo acceptable?

Samantha Cockfield - TAC

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Riyadh Traffic Safety Strategy

Abdulaziz Alghannam - Arriyadh Development Authority

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Queensland's Road Toll: The Presence of Type 2 Vehicle Related Offences

Cassandra Cross - Queensland Police Service

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Demonstration of Advisory Intelligent Speed Adaptation Technology in Western Australia

Linley Crackel - Office of Road Safety

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Drivers with Visual Field loss in one Australian licensing jurisdiction

Megan Bohensky - MUARC

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A whole of Government approach to reducing drink drive re-offending

Patricia Bryant - Roads and Traffic Authority NSW

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Professional Leadership and Advocacy in the Reduction of Road Trauma

Monique Whear - Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

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The French Automated Speed Enforcement Programme: First Results and Analysis

Laurent Carnis

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Comparing speeding offence rates and crash rates of provisional and unrestricted licence holders in NSW

Chika Sakashita - Roads and Traffic Authority

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Some options for assessing older driver fitness to drive for licensing purposes

Megan Bohensky - MUARC

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A Guide for Sentencing DUI Offenders in the United States

James Fell - Pacific Institute for Research & Evaluation

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Enthusiasm in Search of a Strategy: Road Safety Programs and Needs in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities in Victoria

Warren Harrison - Eastern Professional Services Pty Ltd

Dimitra Tapsas

 

1530 - 1545 Afternoon tea / exhibition
1545 - 1615 Conference Awards Presentation
1615 - 1630 Conference Close
 
 


Download the Program in PDF Format
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Find out more about what is included in the Conference Program

Geneva ambassadors

In April 2007, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations hosted the World Youth Assembly for Road Safety in Geneva to address the issue of road trauma. Eight Australian youth delegates attended the Assembly, among a total of 400 people aged 25 or under from around the world. Two of the Australian delegates will address the conference and give an account of what transpired at the Assembly and an update on the major outcome of the Assembly, which was a Youth Declaration for Road Safety.