Motorcycles should be fitted with automatic crash call technology to reduce emergency response times which are more lethal in Australia’s...
Regional speed limits should be reduced up to 30km/h and riders slugged with a levy to fix rural roads, according...
Passing lanes make motorists safer with many speeding up to 125km/h to safely pass, yet police continue to set up speed traps in these safe sections of road. Austroads has published a report that found passing lanes have many safety benefits, including perceived safety by motorists, safer operational conditions, and...
Despite a 2014 Austroads report finding there are too many speed zones and the frequency of zone changes is too...
Roundabouts are just as dangerous for riders as intersections says Austroads which has called for riders to be considered a...
Australian governments have issued guidelines for trials of autonomous vehicles on our roads but made no mention of motorcycles. The 24-page Austroads and National Transport Commission report does not mention motorcycles once, although bicycles are mentioned. Austroads boss Nick Koukoulas says the guidelines draw on international best practice and have...
Road construction and road safety experts around the world are acknowledging that roads need to be designed with rider safety...
Austroads is producing a claimed world-first library of motorcycle hazard perception test (HPT) videos and supporting road safety material to...
Yamaha is testing a robot motorcycle, Kawasaki is developing a bike with artificial intelligence and now an engineering student has built a riderless model-sized motorcycle. Could the bikes of the future ride themselves and not need rider input? In the above video, micro-engineering student Eric Unnervik, from the Research institution in...
Roads need to be better designed, funded and maintained to reduce the risk of motorcycle crashes, a 244-page Austroads report...
Austroads makes no mention of lane filtering in its latest report concerned with achieving “safer” speeds in our urban road...
Austroads has published a major study into speeding which presumes that the public wants “safer speeds” that are lower speeds. The whole premise for the 161-page report seems to be that lower vehicle speeds means less risk. It recommends a wide range of campaign strategies including reducing speed limits, more...
Sportsbike riders, in particular older riders, have greater odds of being involved in serious injury crashes than riders of other types...
Some bike crashes are caused by poor rural road design, according to an Austroads report. The Austroads Road Design Task Force...
Riders are statistically insignificant according to Austroads, the leading transport and traffic authority in Australia and New Zealand, a situation described by rider advocacy spokespeople as “dismissive”, “ignorant” and “appalling”. Responding to the MotorbikeWriter petition for Austroads to pay more attention to riders when compiling important reports, chairman Peter Duncan defends...
In the wake of Austroads neglecting to mention motorcycles in two recent important reports that impact dramatically on riders’ safety,...
The leading transport and traffic authority in Australia, Austroads, has again neglected motorcyclists in its latest report on rear-ender crashes....
Slower speed limits, more hi-tech speed enforcement and safer, flexible road signs for motorcyclists are among the suggested actions from AustRoads’ Review of the National Road Safety Strategy. We recently criticised AustRoads because their 87-page report outlining the framework for planning road networks totally neglected motorcycle riders. There is no...
An 87-page Austroads report outlining the framework for planning road networks totally neglects motorcycle riders. The “Level of Service Metrics...
All novice riders will first have to hold a car licence for one year under a plan being considered by...
The dangers to motorcycle riders of wire rope barriers may have been overstated, according to an AustRoads report and the Australian Motorcycle Council. Motorcycle riders have called wire rope barriers “widow-makers”, “rider slicers” and “people graters”. However, an AustRoads “Improving Roadside Safety” report has found that fixed barriers are more...