Activities & Events

Australasian Program

For full details on any program please contact head office on +61 2 6290 2509

2008 Joint Conference with the Travelsafe Committee of the Queenland Parliament and the Australasian College of Road Safety

Theme: Motivating behaviour change among high risk road users: What works and what doesn't work?

Parliament House, Brisbane on 18th & 19th September 2008.

This conference seeks to encourage debate on how to;

• achieve change in high risk behaviours, particularly among persistent offenders including: drink driving, drug driving, unlicensed/disqualified driving and driving at excessive or inappropriate speeds.
• to motivate behaviour change among high risk road users, including, young drivers. motorcyclists, fatigued drivers, work related drivers, rural and remote road users, older drivers and drink walkers.

The conference organisers wish to acknowledge Queensland Transport, the Motor Accident Insurance Commission, NRMA - ACT Road Safety Trust, Cozart and CARRS-Q for their support of the conference. 

The conference organisers gratefully acknowledge the support of The Marque Hotel Brisbane in making discounted accommodation rates available to conference attendees. 

Hotel bookings should be made directly with the hotel and quote 'ACRS National Conference' to obtain the discount rate.

Conference brochure now available.

Click here to register for the 2008 Joint Conference

Victoria Chapter Seminar -   Sleepy in Charge! Driving When Fatigued   

When: 19 June 2008 Where: Parliament House,  Melbourne, 2 pm-5 pm   Cost $20 Members $50 non-members. To register Phone Eva Spychalla on 03 9664 6281 or email eva_spychalla@tac.vic.gov.au      For brochure with full details

Older Drivers Seminar

The first Seminar was held in Canberra on 30 October 2006, and has progressed throughout the state chapters.  The seminar series is sponsored by the NRMA-ACT Roaad Safety Trust and features a presentation by Robin Anderson on the findings of his Churchill Fellowship to study community based road safety programs for older drivers in Europe and the USA. 

The College, is completing this series on Older Drivers with a one day seminar in Wellington at a date to be announced.   Full details will be available shortly.

PAST EVENTS

Older Drivers Seminar - Queensland Chapter

The Queensland Chapter with kind sponsorship from CARRS-Q and the NRMA ACT Road Safety Trust held the Older Driver Seminar on Friday 28th March, at Carseldine Campus, Queensland University of Technology, Beams Road Carseldine, Brisbane.

"Safe Walking: A Colloquium on Pedestrian Safety"

This seminar was hosted by the NSW Injury Risk Management Research Centre on Monday 26th November 2007 at the Grace Hotel, Yurra Room, Level 2, 77 York Street, Sydney.

Infants, Children and Young People and Road Safety National Conference

The College, in partnership with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau and assisted by the NSW (Sydney) Chapter Executive,  conducted a conference on "Infants, Children and Young People, and Road Safety",  at the Parliament House Theatrette, Macquarie Street, Sydney on 2-3 August 2007.  This event was sponsored  by NRMA Motoring Services, Safe n Sound and the Motor Accident Authority

The Australasian College of Road Safety’s 2007 conference focused on reflecting the inaugural 2007 UN Global Road Safety Week theme.  Australian and New Zealand youth representatives attended the World Youth Assembly in Geneva in late April 2007, and the outcomes of the Youth Assembly were reported and discussed at the conference.

Full conference proceedings will be available for download on completion of peer reviews.

 Older Drivers

The College Office, in collaboration with the College Chapters, is organising seminars on 'Older Drivers' in the State/Territory capitals in 2006-2007.  The first Seminar was held in Canberra on 30 October 2006.  The seminar series is being sponsored by the NRMA-ACT Roaad Safety Trust and features a presentation by Robin Anderson on the findings of his Churchill Fellowship to study community based road safety programs for older drivers in Europe and the USA. 

Other speakers at the Canberra Seminar included:

• Dr Bella Dinh-Zarr, formerly National Director of Traffic Safety Policy for the American Automobile Association (AAA) where she was the traffic safety spokesperson and lead scientist, developing tools for older drivers such as Roadwise Review and CarFit. 
• Associate Professor Drew Richardson, the NRMA-ACT Road Safety Trust Chair of Road Trauma and Emergency Medicine at the ANU Medical School. 
• Jim Langford, Senior Research Fellow at the Monash University  Accident  Research Centre
• Allan Brownsdon, a consultant to COTA responsible for the development of an “Older Persons Road Safety Needs Analysis” for the ACT.

Recidivist Drink Driving and Unlicensed Driving

The College Office, in collaboration with the College chapters,organised seminars on 'Recidivist Drink Driving and Unlicensed Driving' in some State/Territory capitals during 2005-2006.

Sydney International Conference on 'Driver Distraction

This was held in Sydney on 2/3 June 2005 and was attended by over 100 delegates. All delegates will be sent a free copy of the CD-ROM of the papers and presentations once the peer review process of the papers has been completed - we had hoped to have the CD available by the end of August 2005. However, there has been a delay beyond our control, but we are now in April 2008 inthe process of having CDs produced and will also be available via the web.

1st United Nations Global Road Safety Week 23-29 April 2007

State and Territory Chapter Events

Australian Capital Territory and Region Chapter

For information about Chapter activities please contact Robin Anderson tel: (02) 6251 2461.

New South Wales (New England) Chapter

For information about Chapter meetings please contact Tom Fisher tel: (02) 6770 3569.

New South Wales (Sydney) Chapter

For information about the Chapter please contact Ms Liz de Rome , tel: (02) 9550 2292 

Queensland Chapter

For information about meetings contact the Secretary, Peter Kolesnik, tel: (07) 3238 6666.

South Australia

For information about meetings contact the SA Chapter President, Paul Simons tel: (08) 8273 3100

Victorian Chapter

For information about the next Chapter meeting please contact  Greg Rowe tel: (03) 9854 2655.

West Australian Chapter

For information on the next Chapter meeting please contact A/Prof Lynn Meuleners tel: (08) 9266 4636.

New Zealand Chapter

For information on the next Chapter meeting please contact Michael Cummins tel: (04) 931 8937