Welcome to the Road Safety Body of Knowledge
Welcome to the Australasian College of Road Safety’s Road (ASCRS) Safety Body of Knowledge (RS BoK), a freely accessible resource for road safety professionals and practitioners across the globe, supported by the Australian Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts.
Impetus for the development of a Body of Knowledge for road safety emerged from realisation that in the context of deteriorating road safety in many countries, building capacity for road safety and increasing professionalism in those working in the area has only rarely been employed as a road safety strategy. A Body of Knowledge will provide the framework for education, training and certification and accreditation programmes for professionals/practitioners working in the field of road safety.
The Road Safety Body of Knowledge takes a transdisciplinary approach, integrating the different disciplines that currently contribute to road safety to construct new frameworks and knowledge about road safety to go beyond these narrower disciplinary perspectives. This aims to encourage broader ways of thinking about road safety for new road safety professionals and for those who may have been working in the field for some time, so helping to avoid complacency in approaches to road safety problems.
Building capacity is a primary role of a professional society such as the Australasian College of Road Safety. It will target members already working in the field to develop a broader range of strategies to improve road safety and provide members new to the field with the knowledge to achieve high quality road safety.
Why do we need a Road Safety Body of Knowledge
How to interact with the Road Safety Body of Knowledge
Contribute to the Road Safety Body of Knowledge
A Body of Knowledge will provide the framework for education, training and certification and accreditation programmes for professionals/practitioners working in the field of road safety. The approach to developing this Body of Knowledge is based on that used in occupational health and safety which has been highly successful in increasing the status and professionalism in that field. The Road Safety Body of Knowledge takes a transdisciplinary approach, integrating the different disciplines that currently contribute to road safety to construct new frameworks and knowledge about road safety to go beyond these narrower disciplinary perspectives.
The Road Safety Body of Knowledge is a living (ever evolving and frequently-updated), freely accessible, searchable and interactive resource created by the ACRS for road safety professionals working across the globe in all road safety disciplines.
How to Interact with the RS BoK
- Learn more about the definition of terms specific to a chapter by hovering over any green text;
- Clicked linked text for further reading across other chapters and resources; and
- Access links within the bibliography to an open-source version of the source data (where possible).
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03. Understanding the Global Road Trauma Crisis
02. The History of Road Safety
01. Introduction
Contributing Partners
