Participate in the RSRP
The AAA Road Safety Research Program supports studies with high potential for delivering practical road safety benefits.
The RSRP is seeking partnerships with researchers and motoring and mobility stakeholders.
To register your interest in the Program or share a potential research idea, please contact research@aaa.asn.au
Road Safety Research Forums
The Road Safety Research Program collaboratively engages with a wide range of stakeholders interested in improving road safety and working to address some of Australia’s most critical road safety issues.
Each research cycle begins with a process to identify a specific road safety theme by asking interested stakeholders to identify key road safety problems that should be prioritised and research concepts that will help tackle these problems.
Once a research theme has been set, the AAA then hosts an invitation-only face-to-face forum.
The Road Safety Research Forum gives key stakeholders and experts an avenue to discuss issues, workshop possible solutions and further develop research concepts.
Industry and stakeholder partnerships
We encourage industry partnerships in our research projects to ensure that research outcomes are practical, effective and user-friendly.
Expressions of interests can be submitted via research@aaa.asn.au
Research partners
The AAA invites interested stakeholders to submit their ideas on:
- priority areas of research need for road safety related to the current research theme
- research project concepts / ideas that will help address these priority areas of research need.
The Program encourages project applications and methodologies that will help build road safety research capability. The AAA does not limit the number of proposals or applications that prospective participants can present. But it will only consider submissions that focus on identified research priorities.
Participation is not limited to Australian organisations and individuals. Overseas researchers can receive Road Safety Research Program funding, but only if they belong to a consortium led by an Australian organisation. The Program will not provide funding for PhD candidates or early-career researchers.
Assessing research proposals
The AAA invites interested stakeholders to submit their ideas on:
- priority areas of research need for road safety related to the current research theme
- research project concepts / ideas that will help address these priority areas of research need.
The RSRP’s two advisory bodies – the Club Advisory Group and the Expert Advisory Panel – in conjunction with the AAA, assess and provide recommendations to the AAA Board on:
- preliminary research concepts for further consideration
- full research proposals (and feasibility studies where appropriate) for funding.
The advisory groups and AAA adhere to the following principles:
TRANSPARENCY – all selection processes and all decisions on funding road safety research are transparently communicated to stakeholders.
COLLABORATION – the Program fosters collaboration across sectors and disciplines to identify and address road safety challenges.
ETHICAL AND RESPONSIBLE RESEARCH – the Program encourages research consistent with the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research.
QUALITY – the Program uses independent expertise to improve its processes and evaluate proposals against the assessment criteria.
KNOWLEDGE SHARING – the Program will share research outputs with the road safety research community to improve collective knowledge.
VALUE FOR MONEY – the Program will deliver value for money from its investments in road safety research to help maximise the achievement of its desired outcome and avoid duplicating research.
For more details, see the Assessment Framework and General Terms & Conditions (below).
