Laurie Budd

Laurie Budd works in the Injury Analysis and Data group at the Monash University Accident Research Centre. She has written or contributed to the following reports:

Related Links:

• CMARC fact sheet Flexible Road Safety Barriers
• CMARC fact sheet Improving Motorcycle Safety in a Safe System
• Child restraints: Parents' attitudes, knowledge and behaviours relating to safe child occupant travel.Accident Analysis and Prevention 11/2012; 51C:18-26. DOI:10.1016/j.aap.2012.10.009
• Fleet vehicles: cmarc newsletter
• Fleet vehicles: Modelling the road trauma effects of potential vehicle safety improvements in the WA light passenger vehicle fleet
• Heavy Vehicles Potential benefits of emerging crash avoidance technologies in Australasian Heavy vehicles
• Heavy vehicles: conference-Heavy vehicle chain of responsibility
• Heavy vehicles: Conference slides:Potential benefits of emerging crash avoidance technologies in Australian Heavy vehicles
• Motorcycles: Evaluation of the effectiveness of ABS on motorcycle safety in Australia
• Older Drivers: The potential crash and injury reduction benefits of safer vehicle choices for older drivers in Australia and New Zealand
• SUV: Camera effectiveness and backover crashes with Pedestrians
• Speed cameras: Evaluation of the Crash Effects of Victoria’s Fixed Digital Speed and Red-Light Cameras
• Taxis: Research on the safety implications of taxi and hire car age limits

Road Safety

Evaluated jurisdictional speed enforcement startegies and safety cameras including Hume Freeway Point to Point Cameras, Victorian Digital Red Light 
speed cameras and the whole state program of Queensland

Evaluated Victorian Safer Road Infrastructure Projects- Stages I, II and III

Evaluated parental compliance survey about Child Care Restraints (logistic regression for paper in web links)

Produced Data for Western Australian Road Safety fact Sheets- No. 8 and No. 13 (see web links)

Profiled Older Road user vehicles, crashes and driving habits from licensing, registration and crash data bases

Profiled WA fleet Victorian taxi fleet, Australasian passenger vehicle, concessional vehicle and Australasian heavy vehicle 
and projected crash related benefits of additional safety technology

Estimated the safety benefits of ABS technology in motorcycles

Prepared policy documents on the use of new safety technologies in heavy vehicles and SUVs and for use in improving pedestrian safety based on the survey of recent literature.

Assisted with logistic regression analysis for studies into the characteristics of outer urban 
crashes.

Performed Novice Driver education program evaluation.

Disaster Resiliance

Assisted with logistic regression analysis for studies into fire-preparedness .

Volunteer tutor of Biostatistics with Peoples University from 2010-2015.

Co-Author of Australasian Road Safety Conference  Peter Vulcan Award for Best Research Paper 2016:
Interim Evaluation of the Victorian Safer Road Infrastructure Program Stage 3 (SRIP3)