Home | About us | The Facts | Resources

About Us

About Safer Roads

SaferRoads is a diverse coalition representing motorists, medical practitioners, the transportation industry, local governments and others concerned about improving road safety for all Australians.

In conjunction with the World Health Organisation's World Health Day: Road Safety in 2004, we will be working to drive home to policy makers the need for safer roads.

A key aim of SaferRoads is to shift the focus of road safety away from being a narrow transport issue, to being one of preventable health, with enormous impact across Australian society.

Great attention has been paid to vehicles and driver behavior, but we now need to focus on improving the one area over which we have the greatest control, roads, and make travel safer for everyone. By making roads more forgiving in a crash, we can help to reduce the impact road trauma has on individuals, families, work places, hospitals, and society generally.

SaferRoads partners are:

Australian Automobile Association
Australian Trucking Association
Australian Local Government Association
Australasian College of Road Safety

Click here to see SaferRoads 'supporters'.

Australian Automobile Association

Established in 1924, the AAA serves as the federal secretariat of the state and territory motoring organisations. The AAA represents the interests of constituent organisations, their 6.2 million members and, indirectly, all Australian motorists at the national and international levels.

Click here for more: www.aaa.asn.au

Australian Local Government Association

The Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) represents the interests of local government at the national level. ALGA is constituted as a federation of the peak state and NT Local Government Associations and the ACT Government.

For more information on Local Government and road safety, click here.

Click here for more: www.alga.asn.au

Australian Trucking Association

The Australian Trucking Association (ATA) is the national body representing the Australian trucking industry. First established in 1989 as the Road Transport Forum (RTF), the ATA provides public policy advocacy for trucking operations within Australia through research, lobbying and communication. The ATA's policy coverage embraces safety, taxes and charges, infrastructure, environmental and technical issues.

Click here for more: www.trucknbus.com.au/ata

Australasian College of Road Safety

The College was established in 1988 as an association for individuals and organisations working in or interested in supporting road safety. The College is multi-disciplinary in its membership, and values experience as much as academic qualifications in its members.

Click here for more: www.acrs.org.au

SaferRoads 'Supporters'

Click on our Supporters' name or logo for more information.

	Australian Council for Infrastructure Development
	Australian Road Federation
	ARRB Transport Research
	Bus Industry Confederation
	Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory
	Civil Contractors Federation
	Confederation of Australian Motor Sport
	Engineers Australia
	Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC)
	Murdoch University (PaTReC)
	Pedestrian Council of Australia
	Queensland University of Technology (CARRSQ)
	Rural Doctors Association of Australia
	The National Farmers Federation
	The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
	University of South Australia (Transport System Centre)
	The George Institute, University of Sydney