Australia’s key peak medical organisation has endorsed a push to link road safety data transparency with federal road funding to help reduce the nation’s surging road toll.
read moreThe Albanese Government’s hand-picked reviewer of federal-state road funding arrangements says urgent reform is needed to improve data reporting, manage project performance, and ensure funding integrity.
read moreInitial results of Australia’s first program to test vehicle real-world performance show the cars tested use up to 13% more fuel on the road than they did in lab tests reported by manufacturers.
read moreNew data shows the nation’s road toll continuing to climb. Yet the Government has not prioritised transport safety in its announced Infrastructure Policy Statement.
read moreThe quarterly update of the AAA’s EV Index shows the Australian new vehicle market continuing to change.
read moreState and territory governments have assessed more than 450,000km of Australian roads using a globally recognised star-rating system. But not one has yet published the results derived and they keep the data secret.
read moreRoad deaths rose by 4.6% over the 12 months to 30 September. We can’t explain these increases or be confident about proposed solutions because state governments are withholding crucial data about road quality and crash causes.
read morePeople in the Hunter Valley, New England and the Mid-North Coast are more than seven times more likely to die on roads than their metropolitan Sydney counterparts.
read moreLack of published data means policy experts and the Australian community have no basis to understand why cyclist deaths surged by nearly a third in the past year.
read moreThe PM has joined the AAA to launch a program designed to improve consumer information and help Australian car buyers save on fuel bills while improving environmental outcomes. First results will be reported in November.
read moreAustralia’s peak motoring body encourages Federal Transport Minister Catherine King to reconsider her rejection of an all-party parliamentary committee’s call to let Australians see secret safety ratings of the roads they use every day.
read moreThe Australian Trucking Association has joined the AAA’s Data Saves Lives campaign, aimed at compelling governments to end secrecy about data revealing the causes of car crashes and the state of the nation’s roads.
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