Publications
2004 ACRS Yearbook
Excerpts from the 2004 Year Book of the Australasian College of Road Safety:
- Dr. George Rechnitzer - "Crocodile Tears for Heavy Vehicle Safety"
- Shane Richardson - "Rollover: One of the Road Safety Problems that is Not Being Addressed"
The full 2004 ACRS Yearbook may be downloaded here.
Articles
DVE's experts are constantly being asked to provide safety and crash related commentary in the media and industry publications. A selection of these articles may be found below:
- 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 Papers
DVE staff have presented papers at numerous conferences. Some of these papers may be found below:
- 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)
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Simulation of Truck Rear Underrun Barrier Impact Presented by Dr George Rechnitzer, Dr Roger Zou and Dr Raphael Grzebieta at ESV 17, June 2001
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Role of Design in OH&S - Presented by Dr George Rechnitzer at the Safety in Action Conference, 2001