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Contents

Quick links to current vehicle safety priorities
Road safety news + News links.
Green automotive news. +Greenhouse news
NCAP Crash Tests and other Consumer Sites
VDRs reports on the Web
Government, Motoring Organisations
Vehicle Safety, Conferences, ITS, Magazines, Manufacturers, More Links.
Road Users, Bicycles
Consultants/Universities
Driving Tips
Safety for kids
I also have an interest in planetary collisions - the ultimate crash test for civilisation! And tsunami.

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Government Sites

huge list

Australia

Transport/Roads & Maritime (NSW state govt)

Crashlab crash test facility and research
Vehicle Standards includes a code of practice for vehicle modifications (updated URL)
Road Safety Information
Vehicle safety compliance cerfication scheme (VSCCS) list of licensed vehicle certifiers. (PDF) - for modified and imported vehicles
4th Annual Local Government Road Safety Conference - many papers available online, including the keynote address by Narelle Haworth.

NSW Motor Accidents Authority - Road Safety Professionals.
Queensland Transport. - Vehicle Standards
VicRoads (Victorian state govt) - Vehicle Standards (updated URL)
South Australian DPTI - Towards Zero Together - Vehicle Standards
Tasmanian Department of State Growth - Road Safety - Vehicle Standards
ACT Dept Justice and Community Safety
Northern Territory
WA Road Safety Commission - WA Dept Transport - Vehicle standards

Federal Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communication (Updated URL)

Vehicle Safety Standards Information and Services

Australian Design Rules online
Importing vehicles into Australia.
Road Vehicle Certification System
List of consultants who do ADR certifications.
Australian recalls (updated URL)
Emergency Rescuer's Guide to Vehicle Airbags (this site is password protected and is for emergency personnel)

Carsafe - National Motor Vehicle Theft Reduction Council.
NSW Parliament Staysafe Committee - recent Staysafe reports available
National Transport Commission (new name and link)- regulation of heavy vehicles in Australia.

North America

Transport Canada
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (USA)

Airbags and kids (for US cars only - see this Australian advice)
ITS Electronic Document Library On-Line Catalog - hundreds of PDF downloads.
NHTSA's rulemaking priorities - 2002-2005
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards - search Federal Regulations (good luck!) or GPO has downloadable PDFs
Office of Crash Avoidance Research Technical Publications

National Transportation Safety Board - USA (see the PDF Publications List)
New York Child Traffic Safety Committee.
Yahoo's listing of US State Governments - some transport agencies amongst these

Europe

UK Dept for Transport - ThinkRoadSafety [updated]
European Transport Safety Council.See their CRASH Newsletter.
BAST - German Federal Highway Research Institute.
Swedish National Road Administration.Vision Zero. More on Vision Zero.
Swedish VTI - dozens of road safety and emissions publications online.
UN ECE Vehicle Regulations.
EC Directives Applying to Motor Vehicles - from CarDesignOnline.com
European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT).

Asia/Pacific

Japan: Traffic Safety and Nuisance Research Institute, Ministry of Transport
Japan: Ministry of Land,Infrastructure and Transport
New Zealand -

Accident Compensation Corporation Road safety (many links)
RightCar
Land Transport NZ

Motoring Organisations (vehicle safety pages, where readily available)

Australia

Australian Automobile Association (AAA) - includes Airbags Enhance Safety.
NRMA (New South Wales & ACT) - see Safety & Advice
RACV (Victoria) - see 'Car information'
RACT (Tasmania)
RAASA (South Australia)
RACQ (Queensland) - see 'crash tests'
RACWA (Western Australia)- see 'Car crash tests'
Roadside Assistance links (thanks Keith Pennington)

International

AA(UK)
RAC (UK) - child safety.
RAC Foundation - research
CAA (Canada)
AAA (USA) (only links to state organisations)
ACI (Italy)
JAF (Japan)
SBF (Sweden)
Alliance International de Tourisme (AIT) - representing 130 motoring organisations and touring clubs around the world
ADAC - Europe's largest motoring organisation (in German, sign-in required)
Federation Internationale de L'automobile (FIA)
AANZ (New Zealand)

Other Vehicle Safety Sites (random order - usually newest at bottom)

FIA Institute for Motor Sport Safety and Sustainability
FIA Foundation
Australian Institute for Motor Sport Safety
European Red Cross: One Life Road Safety Campaign.
Policy.com - transportation issues.
FISITA - Federation of Automotive Societies. Includes international student exchange and safety links.
Scientific American: How airbags work and Airbags Working Knowledge (see also the ANCAP/NRMA page on Airbags)
"The Crash in the Machine" (updated URL $), Scientific American, March 1999 (a great article by BMW engineers)
Air bags save Mars Pathfinder from a crash landing (deceleration limited to about 10 Earth gs)
Association for Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM) - some good web links
Journal of Accident Analysis and Prevention (Contents search- many other Journals covered)
Society of Automotive Engineers(SAE - USA) - Site search page
SAE Congress 99 - Technical sessions on safety
American Automotive Design
SAE Australasia
TNO Road-Vehicles Research Institute (Netherlands)
School Traffic Safety (Indiana, USA)
School Bus Fleet magazine
Highway Loss Data Institute
VETA Society of Road Safety Professionals
Millbrook Proving Ground (UK)
MIRA - Motor Industry Research Organisation
The Global market for airbags and seatbelts: Forecasts to 2010 - Just-auto
Toyota Safety Features(Japan) - reduced content in 2002 but a new report on hybrid technology.
Japan Auto Manufacturers Assoc.
Japan Automobile Research Institute.
Volvo Safety Features(US) - gone in 2002!
Vauxhall (GM) Safety Features(UK) - gone in 2002!
Folksam Swedish Insurance Company that supports road safety research (limited English pages)
German Insurance Association – GDV
US Insurance Research Council - Auto Issues - most reports require payment.
Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals
Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute VTI.
International Road Traffic and Accident Database (IRTAD) standards for exchange of accident data.
Automobile Protection Association - Canadian consumer advocacy group.
NSW Bus and Coach Association - School Bus Safety.
Car Detective - advice about buying used vehicles (USA).
Ruff Rider’s Roadie dog restraint(USA)
Euroreflex - pedestrian reflectors (Italy)
Autosafe Australian road safety initiatives listed by Windscreens O'Brien.
ICBC Road Safety - Canada.
NOVA Death-defying designs for car safety and Fatal impact – the physics of speeding cars.
Alba Diagnostics - brake fluid testing.
6th International Symposium on Heavy Vehicle Weights and Dimensions
Extrication.Com - crash rescue advice.
Speed Management - German site on speed control.
The WMI pages - explanation of VIN.
VINPower Vehicle Identification Number Decoder
Automotive Occupant Restraints Council - occupant restraint manufacturers.
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders - UK
The Sensor Explosion and Automotive Control Systems (occupant detection) - from Sensor Magazine, May 2000.
SafetyLit - safety-related literature database.
National Safety Council of Australia.
DNA testing of deposits on deployed airbags - for accident reconstruction!
Enhanced Protection Glass Automotive Association - improved side and rear windows to prevent ejection.
PAM-Crash - simulation software.
RoadSafety.com - info and products
PASSIVE SAFETY TESTING - information for crash test organisations
Shanghai Motor Vehicle Inspection Centre.
Arnaud Miege's Vehicle Dynamics & Control and Tyre Modelling Research
Cambridge Vehicle Dynamics Consortium
Institute of Traffic Accident Investigators
Gridwatch - links to auto sites
Road Traffic Technology - website for the road traffic industry
Private Fleet - Australian car buying service - has a vehicle safety page.
Dog and Lemon Guide - "the world’s toughest car buyer’s guide"
The Great Texas Train Crash (Test) - 1896
Progressive Deformable Barrier - for offset crash tests
The Chemistry of Airbags
Carcare.org

Vehicle Safety Conferences

20 Feb 15 ACRS: ARSC2015 - Call for Abstracts - NOW OPEN - the inaugural Australasian Road Safety Conference (ARSC2015) to be held at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre, Queensland, Australia, from Wednesday 14 to Friday 16 October 2015.
Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference

2010 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, National Convention Centre, Canberra - 31 August to 3 September 2010.
2009 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference: Sydney 11-13 Nov 2009 + ROAD SAFETY 2020: Smart solutions, sustainability, vision: Perth 5-6 Nov 2009 + First International Conference on Intelligent Speed Adaptation: Sydney 10 Nov 2009.
2008 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference: Adelaide 10-12 November 2008
2007 Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference was held in Melbourne, 17 - 19 October 2007
Archive of Annual Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference Proceedings (no longer active!)

AAAM
Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV - NHTSA site with links to proceedings) - a key biannual conference on vehicle safety.

25th ESV, Detroit, USA 5-8 June 2017 Proceedings are currently here - they might be moved to the NHTSA website eventually.

24th ESV, Gothenburg, Sweden 8-11 June 2015
23rd ESV Seoul, South Korea 27-30 May 2013
22nd ESV, Washington DC June 2011.
21st ESV- Stuttgart, Germany 15-18 June 2009.
20th ESV - Lyon (France), June 18-21, 2007
19th ESV Conference, Washington, DC, June 6 - 9, 2005.

18th ESV Conference - May 19-22, 2003, Nagoya, Japan.
17th ESV Conference 2001 (Netherlands).
16th ESV Proceedings (1998 Windsor)
15th ESV Abstracts (1996 Melbourne) (sorry - no longer available! Please tell NHTSA if you want all ESV abstracts/papers available on the Internet)
NHTSA links.

ICRASH
IRCOBI - International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Impact.
SAE World Congress - March each year (usually Detroit).
Canadian Multidisciplinary Road Safety Conference Abstracts from previous conferences.
The XVII Canadian Multidisciplinary Road Safety Conference

International Forum on Road Transport Technology (previously International Symposium on Heavy Vehicle Weights and Dimensions)

11th International Symposium on Heavy Vehicle Transport Technology, (HVTT11) took place in Melbourne, Australia, 15 - 17 March 2010.
10th International Symposium on Heavy Vehicle Weights and Dimensions (ISHVWD) was held in Paris, France 19-22 May 2008. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 30 June, 2007. Renamed to International Conference on Heavy Vehicles, May 19-22, 2008 Paris, France
Previous conference proceedings
Archives of Road Transport Technology email discussions

International Symposium on Automotive Lighting - ISAL2007. September, 25-26 2007 - Darmstadt, Germany (thanks Michael Griffiths) . 2005 conference.
11th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportations Systems - August 29th-31th, 2006, Rijkswaterstaat Testcentre / Technical University Delft, The Netherlands
2006 SAE Commercial Vehicle Engineering Congress and Exhibition, October 31 - November 2, 2006, Rosemont, Illinois.
11th European Automotive Congress, EAEC2007 in Budapest 30 May - 1 Jun 2007.
Saferoads 2006 conference - Melbourne, 7-8 Sept 2006.
Cambridge Uni (UK): MECHANICS OF HEAVY-DUTY TRUCK SYSTEMS was held at Cambridge University from 23-26 April 2007. The event was be led by three 'gurus' of heavy vehicle dynamics: Chris Winkler and Bob Ervin from UMTRI, and Dick Radlinski of LINK Radlinski Inc...
People Safe In Rollovers Foundation: EMERGENCY WORLD SUMMIT on ROOF CRUSH. Washington DC, 18-20 July 2007.
6th European Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services - Aalborg, Denmark 18-20 June 2007 (Clashes with 20th ESV!)
ITS Australia: SmartDemo 2007 - 13th to 15th August 2007 - Melbourne
Australian Intelligent Transport System Summit 2009 - 18-20 Nov, Melbourne.
ACRS: Infants, Children & Young People & Road Safety Conference - 2-3 August 2007 preceded by a half day seminar on Intelligent Speed Adaptation on 1 August (contact Ian Faulks for details)
The International Congress of Heavy Vehicles, Road-Trains and Urban Transport will be held in Minsk from 28-31 May 2008 under the patronage of FISITA.
South Africa: 4th Annual Road Safety Conference - Interventions To Successfully Reduce Road Fatalities By Half By 2014
September 26 - 28, 2007 - Johannesburg, South Africa
ACRS: Safe Walking: A Colloquium on Pedestrian Safety - Sydney 26th Nov 2007.
HCTP: The first national conference on best practice management of compensable soft tissue injuries in community settings. Adelaide 23-26 Nov 08.
ACRS: Motivating behaviour change among high risk road users: What works and what doesn't work? - Brisbane 18-19 Sep 2008.
Neck injuries in Road Traffic an Prevention Strategies, TUV Akademie, November 18 - 19, 2008, Munich, Germany
28‐29 September, 2009, Gothenburg, Sweden, Chalmers Uni: Call for Abstracts - First International Conference on Driver Distraction and Inattention, Abstracts due 15 April, 2009 (thanks Mike Regan)
9th National Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, 26-28 July 2009, Melbourne.
Speed, the acclaimed 4th international congress on speed reduction and control - Thursday 17 May 2012, 9am – 4pm, Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMECHE) London

ITS - Intelligent Transportation Systems

New page created - Autonomous and Driverless Cars

Electronic magazines

Motorweb
Carnet
Drive - Sydney Morning Herald
Fastlane
Popular Mechanics - Buyers Guide
Eauto.com.au
AutoSpeed - more about performance than safety but a good forum to increase road safety awareness
AutoWeb.
Overdrive.
GoAuto.
Vision Zero International

Australian manufacturers/distributors

Ford + Safety Press Releases from Ford US.
Holden
Mitsubishi
Toyota
Mercedes Benz
Volvo
Renault.
Lexus.

Sites with more links

Crash test partners
Transportation Research Board(USA)
Princeton University
Drive Links - Sydney Morning Herald automotive links
CNN Automotive News
Hyperbanner
Japanese automotive links. (dropped)
American Automotive Design - hundreds of links (updated URL)
TrafficLinq - great search system.
Motorzoo.
Red Book.

Road Users (these are just a few of many sites on this topic)

Drivers and general

Warrington Group of Advanced Motorists (UK)
Driving On-line (UK)
National Group Rides And Designated Drivers - US-based drink drive safety group
International Association of Road Rage Experts (New)
Institute of Driver Development Western Australia - specialise in the development of driver training and assessment programs and processes
Drivers.com with info about novice drivers and a great Links Page.
Association for Safe International Road Travel (ASIRT) provides tips for international travellers about the risks of road travel in each nation.
Learn-2-live -UK
Driving from "L" to "P" - book by Trevor Hobbs
Road Safety Website - NSW
ADVOCATES FOR HIGHWAY AND AUTO SAFETY (US).
SpeedImpact - Victorian organisation highlights the problems on our roads particularly the speeding/drink/drug driving problems.
Roadwatch.com.au - helping drivers avoid fatigue
Safe rural roads - USA
Pedestrian Council of Australia.
CARS - A Road Victim Support Group based in Queensland
SpeedImpact.org.
Consumer Reports - USA
Driving Plus Motor School - Adelaide
Teenagers Road Accident Group - Victoria
the Sink - Canadian site.
Road Supervisors' Network.
Traffic Offenders Program - Australia
Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS)
BBCSafe driving tips.
Prevention Routiere International + French organsiation: La Prévention Routière
Drive and Stay Alive - USA
Brake is a UK road safety charity dedicated to stopping deaths and injuries on roads through awareness-raising campaigns,
ArriveAlive - road safety in South Africa.
Driver ZED - teenage driver resources
Road 2 Survival - by Dr Bill Griggs, Director of Trauma Services at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia
ArriveSafe.org and Chandigarh Traffic Police - India
New Zealand Campaign Against Drugs on Roads (CANDOR)
Green Flag - UK
Fun and Safe Driving
Road Safety at Work of GeoLibrary.org
The DUI Foundation, New York.
Road Traffic Accidents - UK - advice and support + Bike Devil Net
Buzzy - award-winning road safety songs by John Chambers
Suncorp: Queensland Road Safety.
iPart-4-u:The dangers of using a mobile phone behind the wheel
Street Safety For Kids And Teenagers (thanks Pia Banks)
The Ultimate Guide to Driving Safely & Avoiding Distractions - thanks Michael Morris
RS: A Practical Guide to Road Safety

Cycling

The Effectiveness of Bicycle Helmets:A Review (by Michael Henderson).
Pedestrian and cyclists safety research page - US government.
FHWA Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Research Program.
Is Cycling Dangerous?

Consultants and Research Organisations in the Vehicle Safety Field

"An expert is someone brought in at the last minute to share some of the blame"

Sydney, Australia

Michael Paine & David Paine - Vehicle Design & Research P/L
Michael Henderson(now retired) - Wikipedia entry
Michael Griffiths Road Safety Solutions P/L
Tom Gibson (email), Human Impact Engineering.
Ian Faulks
Dept of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney
Neura (Lynne Bilston & Julie Brown)
SINTA - Special Interest Network for Transport in Australia - project by UTS.
Nautitech Australia - has recently won engineering excellence awards for the VW DCT transmission and an Australian six speed automatic transmission.
NRMA Insurance (IAG) Research Centre - Newington, Sydney
Check-it - Damage and repair assessment
Vehicle safety compliance cerfication scheme (VSCCS) list of licensed vehicle certifiers. (PDF) - for modified and imported vehicles

Other Australian

[Institution of] Engineers Australia - National Panel on Biomechanics of Impact Injury (updated URL)
Centre for Automotive Safety Research (formerly RARU) The University of Adelaide (Jack McLean, Robert Anderson). CASR does pedestrian protection tests for ANCAP.
WHO Collaborating Centre for the Prevention of Road Traffic Accidents - University of Western Australia (Delia Hendrie) Note that Tony Ryan has retired but can be contacted by email.
Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC - Brian Fildes, Max Cameron, Stuart Newstead...).
Monash Civil Engineering department does virtual crash simulations. Crashworthiness & Road Safety - IEAust Warren Medal award winning papers by Raphael Grzebieta and George Rechnitzer
DVExperts - George Rechnitzer and Shane Richardson.
Melbourne Uni Research Centre for Advanced By-Wire Technologies (RABIT) - Craig Fletcher (email).
University of New England (Australia) offers a post graduate distance education study program in road safety.
ANU Engineering 4221 - a student's assignment.
ARRB ARRB Transport Research (formerly Australian Road Research Board) - ARRB road safety contacts register.
Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety - Queensland Uni. Fleet Safety Report. Dr Will Murray.
Injuries Australia
Loadsafe - Richard Larsen, Queensland
Ian Pettigrew (email) - Queensland
Transport Roundtable - Phil Charles
Bob Pearson (email) - Victoria
Mike Upton (email) - Western Australia. Ph 08 9243 7625
RTDynamics
Mechanical System Dynamics - Hans Prem
ADVEA Engineering - Melbourne - Josef Tomas
Australasian College of Road Safety - Archive of Annual Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference Proceedings.
List of consultants who do ADR certifications.

International

Transport Engineering Research New Zealand Limited - Peter Baas, John de Pont
Rona Kinetics, Jocelyn Pedder, Canada (email)
Don Friedman, USA (email) Xprts - dynamic rollover testing
Hamilton Associates more road safety links
Failure Analysis Associates - now Exponent, USA
Birmingham University Centre for Automotive Safety (Accident Research Centre) (Murray Mackay)
Loughborough University Vehicle Safety Research Centre - Pete Thomas
University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). Search UMTRI's extensive library catalogue. Director Peter Sweatman.
Vehicle Systems and Safety Program - Pennsylvania State University (Donald A. Streit, Sean Brennan), USA.
Automobile Safety Laboratory - University of Virginia, USA.
Cambridge University Dept of Engineering & Vehicle/Roads Email Network (David Cebon)
INRETS French road safety research (Mike Regan)
TRL UK road research
Automotive Consulting Engineers - UK
Engineering Research(Sweden)
Chalmers University - School of Mechanical and Vehicular Engineering(Sweden)
Lund University(Sweden)
Japan Automobile Research Institute.
KATRI - Korean Automobile Test and Research Institute (Dr Gyuhyun Kim)
Korean University of Technology & Education: School of Mechatronics Engineering (Prof Young-Han Youn)
Children's Hospital of Philiadelphia - TraumaLink publications (Kristy Arbogast, Dennis Durbin, Rajiv Menon, Flaura Winston...)
HILTech Developments - electric vehicles
Jeanne Breen Consulting (email) - London
Accident Reconstruction Network.
Leonard Evans - Traffic Safety papers.
Safety and Policy Analysis International - Kathryn Stewart, - NSW office: Ian Faulks Ph: 9487 2727 (sadly Barry Sweedler died on 27 Oct 2009)
Crashworthy.com - vehicle defect litigation.
Mechanical Simulation Corporation (Tom Gillespie)

More links

Yahoo - Automotive Research

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