Publications

DVE prides itself on it's employees' contributions to engineering and scientific knowledge. Employees contribute to textbooks and write many articles and papers which are presented at major safety conferences worldwide. Some of these publications have been made available for download:

Articles

DVE's experts are often asked to provide safety and crash related commentary in the media and industry publications. A selection of these articles may be found below:

• Interface Design: The Next Major Advance in Road Safety - Dr George Rechnitzer, Shane Richardson, Maxwell Shifman (ACRS Journal, May 2009)
• Safety is by Design, Never by Accident - Dr George Rechnitzer (WorkWISE, November 2008)
• Crash experts slam train safety after Kerang disaster - Dr George Rechnitzer (Herald Sun, 5 June 2008)
• Accident Waiting to Happen - Dr George Rechnitzer (The Age, 9 June 2007)
• How To Reduce the Road Toll - Dr George Rechnitzer, Shane Richardson, Dr Raphael Grzebieta (Safety In Australia, Vol. 26 No. 3, December 2004)
• The Cars that Ate Suburbia - Shane Richardson (The Age, 10 November 2004)
• Survival of the best fitted - Shane Richardson (The Age, 20 January 2004)
• Cutting the Carnage - Shane Richardson, Dr George Rechnitzer, Dr Raphael Grzebieta  (21 July 2002)
• Rails put to the test - (Herald Sun, 17 November 2006)
• Determining Speed from Braking Skid Marks - Dr George Rechnitzer, Shane Richardson, Dr Raphael Grzebieta, & Maxwell Shifman (This article first appeared in the September/October 2006 edition of Precedent, the journal of the Australian Lawyers Alliance)
• Accident Investigation and Reconstruction - Shane Richardson, Dr George Rechnitzer, Dr Raphael Grzebieta & Roger Zou (This article first appeared in the July/August 2006 edition of Precedent, the journal of the Australian Lawyers Alliance)
• Crash information for litigation - what's NEEDED - Dr George Rechnitzer, Shane Richardson, Dr Raphael Grzebieta (This article first appeared in the March/April 2006 edition of Precedent, the journal of the Australian Lawyers Alliance)

Conference/Technical Papers

DVE staff have presented papers at numerous conferences. Some of these papers may be found below:

• Assessing Potential Risks Faced by Road Authorities and Councils from Road AccidentsAssessing Potential Risks Faced by Road Authorities and Councils from Road Accidents - Presented at the 2nd Local Road Safety and Traffic Engineering Conference, August 2008 (reproduced in ROADS Magazine)
• Crashworthy Systems - A Paradigm Shift in Road Safety Design - Transport Engineering in Australia, IEAust, Vol.5, No.2, Dec. 1999
• Crashworthy Systems A Paradigm Shift in Road Safety Design (Part II) - Transport Engineering in Australia, IEAust, Vol. 7, Nos. 1&2, Dec 2001 (Recipient of 2003 Warren Medal by the Institution of Engineers Australia)
• Simulation of Truck Rear Underrun Barrier Impact  Presented by Dr George Rechnitzer, Dr Roger Zou and Dr Raphael Grzebieta at ESV 17, June 2001
• Role of Design in OH&S - Presented by Dr George Rechnitzer at the Safety in Action Conference, 2001
• Tram Interface Crashworthiness - Dr George Rechnitzer, Dr Raphael Grzebieta, 2000
• Applying First Principles for the Design of Crashworthy Systems for Road Safety - Presented by Dr George Rechnitzer at the
  Road Safety Research, Policing and Education 2000 Conference, Brisbane, QLD, November 26-28, 2000.
  George Rechnitzer
  Road Safety Research, Policing and Education 2000 Conference, Brisbane, QLD, November 26-28, 2000