Date: Thursday, 22 August 2024
Location: Online, 1:00 – 2:00pm AEST
Organiser: Austroads
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The implementation of the National Roadmap on Driver Distraction is a commitment under Australia’s National Road Safety Strategy 2021-2030. Austroads has released a guide for this work and is preparing two research and development projects for delivery over the next financial year.
The webinar will present the guide, the first projects being prepared, and encourage further discussion and ongoing engagement about this important road safety issue.
This webinar will be presented by Matin Nabavi, Mike Regan and Martin Small.
There will be question and answer opportunities during the webinar.
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Matin Nabavi Niaki is a project manager at Austroads in the Road Safety and Design program. She has experience in different areas of road safety ranging from conflict analysis, safety of active modes, infrastructure evaluation, and safety policy. She studied at the University of Toronto and Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal in Canada, and worked at the Dutch road safety research institute (SWOV).
Mike Regan is an Emeritus Professor with the Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation at UNSW Sydney. He has BSc (Hons) and PhD degrees in Psychology and Human Factors and 25 years’ experience in road safety. His key research interests include driver distraction and inattention, road user behaviour, human factors in road design and traffic engineering, vehicle human-machine interface design, and human interaction with intelligent transport systems. He is the author/co-author of around 200 peer-reviewed research papers, including two published books on driver distraction and inattention. Mike is the co-founder and co-organiser of the biennial International Conference on Driver Distraction and Inattention. He resides in Melbourne.
Martin Small is a road safety management consultant, engaged in a wide range of activities in Australasia, Asia and Africa. He is Immediate Past President of the Australasian College of Road Safety, Non-Executive Director of RAA, and has been working with Austroads to initiate this work on driver distraction.
No charge but registration is essential. Can’t make the live session? Register and we’ll send you a link to the recording.