Comprehensive Guidance on Safe People
Tender ID: 609870
Tender Details
Tender Description
The purpose of this project is to comprehensively update the Austroads Guide to Road Safety Part 4: Safe People (AGRS04) to ensure it reflects contemporary evidence, emerging risks, and best practice approaches to influencing road user behaviour within a Safe System framework. The updated guidance will support jurisdictions to implement effective, consistent and evidence‑based interventions that reduce road trauma associated with human factors.
Scope:
This project will undertake a structured, evidence‑based review and update of the Austroads Guide to Road Safety Part 4: Safe People (AGRS04), explicitly addressing the gaps, limitations and priority update areas. The scope includes the following elements:
Core scope
- A targeted desktop review of national and international research, policy and best practice relating to road user behaviour, human factors and Safer People interventions, with an emphasis on evidence based‑ what works rather than demographic risk profiling.
- A focused review of the existing AGRS04 structure and content to identify sections that are outdated, overly descriptive, insufficiently practical or misaligned with contemporary Safe System and behaviour change‑ approaches. Priority content areas include:
- High-risk road user groups, reframed from descriptive profiling to intervention‑- focused guidance for priority groups (e.g. young and older drivers, motorcyclists, pedestrians, cyclists, personal mobility device users, Indigenous Australians‑ and Māori).
- Education, licensing and training, including graduated licensing, driver and rider training, testing and hazard perception.
- Alcohol, illicit drugs and prescription medication impairment, and other high risk behaviours, with increased focus on effective interventions such as enforcement, alcohol interlocks and education programs.
- Distraction, fatigue, seatbelt and child restraint use, with emphasis on intervention effectiveness.
- Skill, ability and medical fitness to drive/ride, recognising fitness to drive as a critical Safer People topic requiring more practical guidance.
- Review of AGRS04 content that is not central to Safer People practice or lacks clear application value (e.g. information processing and road user error theory), with recommendations for refinement, consolidation or removal.
Expansion and new content areas
Development of new or expanded guidance on Safer People topics that are currently absent or underrepresented in AGRS04, including behaviour change and deterrence, ‑risk-taking‑ and risk perception, speed management (aligned with Safer Speeds guidance), safety device use (motorcycle and bicycle helmets), workplace road safety, safe behaviour in the context of driver assistance and automated vehicle technologies, local government applications, and advertising, marketing and public education campaigns.
Consultation and validation
- Targeted consultation with jurisdictions, the Safe People Technical Reference Group and subject matter experts to validate priority topics, intervention effectiveness‑ and practical applicability.
- Mapping of evidence and consultation findings against a revised AGRS04 structure to ensure clarity, consistency and alignment with other parts of the Austroads Guide to Road Safety.
Out of scope and guide positioning
- AGRS04 will not duplicate or replace detailed technical or policy guidance that is provided in other Austroads publications. In particular, the guide will refer to and align with the forthcoming Graduated Licensing Systems Guide (Austroads project SRL6645), rather than providing detailed graduated licensing design, implementation or evaluation guidance.
- The AGRS04 update will not develop new graduated licensing frameworks, technical specifications, jurisdiction specific GLS models or implementation guidance, as these matters sit within the scope of SRL6645 and other relevant Austroads Guides‑.
- The guide will not function as a technical manual. AGRS04 is intended to be a high-level, ‑practitioner focused guide that supports understanding of Safer People principles and interventions, and clearly directs readers to more detailed, technical Austroads guidance (including SRL6645 and related publications) where appropriate.
Deliverables:
The project will produce the following deliverables:
- Research report summarising evidence review, consultation findings and recommended updates.
- Updated Guide to Road Safety Part 4: Safe People.
- Webinar to disseminate findings and promote adoption of the updated guidance.
Location
New South Wales : Central West : Far North Coast : Far West : Hunter : Illawarra : Mid North Coast : Murray : New England : Orana : Riverina : Southern Highlands : Sydney
Queensland : Cairns & Far North Queensland : Gladstone : Mackay Whitsunday Region : Mount Isa & North West Region : Rockhampton : South East Queensland : South West & Darling Downs : The Central West : Townsville : Wide Bay Burnett
Victoria : Barwon South West : Gippsland : Grampians : Hume : Loddon Mallee : Melbourne
South Australia : Adelaide : Eyre & Western : Far North : Fleurieu & Kangaroo Island : Limestone Coast : Murray & Mallee : York & Mid North
Northern Territory : Barkly : Big Rivers : Central Australia : East Arnhem : Greater Darwin : Top End
Australian Capital Territory
Tasmania
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