Truck safety benchmarking study

This study was carried out to benchmark the safety performance of Australia's road transport industry against the safety performance of similar industries in a range of OECD countries. Comparisons were made of truck fatalities in Australia, the United States of America, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Sweden. Comparisons were made of fatality rates of trucks with a gross vehicle mass rating exceeding 4.5 tonnes. For the purposes of this study buses have been excluded. Fatality rates were used because of the range of comparable data. Injury data were not used because injury reporting criteria and completeness of reporting vary within Australia and in other countries. The study found that Australia's heavy vehicle fatality rate per kilometre travelled is 47 percent higher than the USA, 39 percent higher than the UK, comparable to Germany & Canada, 20 percent lower than Sweden, 45 percent lower than France, and 55 percent lower than New Zealand. The study concludes that the higher fatality rates on Australian roads compared to Great Britain and the United States may be largely explained by the lower proportion of truck travel on divided and limited access roads in Australia, and possibly truck speed limits. The report focuses on a range of areas that have the potential to improve the safety performance of the heavy vehicle industry. These include road standards, targeted low cost road safety treatments, single vehicle crashes, day and night time driving, measures to improve the safety of truck occupants, front and rear underrun protection, appropriate speed limits, and data collection.

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• Corporate Authors:

  National Road Transport Commission (NRTC)

  Melbourne, Victoria   
• Authors:
  • Haworth, N
  • Vulcan, P
  • Sweatman, P
• Publication Date: 2002-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 77p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benchmarks; Crash analysis; Data collection; Fatalities; Hazard mitigation; Highway design; Highway safety; Night; Single vehicle crashes; Speed limits; Trucks; Underride override crashes; Vehicle miles of travel; Vehicle safety
• Uncontrolled Terms: International comparison
• Geographic Terms: Australia
• ATRI Terms: Benchmarking; Crash analysis; Data collection; Day; Fatality rate; Injury prevention; International comparison; Night; Road design; Road safety; Single vehicle crash; Speed limit; Truck; Underride prevention; Vehicle kilometre; Vehicle safety
• Subject Areas: Highways; Motor Carriers; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01392006
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 1877093084
• Files: ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 23 2012 6:47AM