The Motor Accident Insurance Commission (MAIC) and Griffith University have embarked upon a collaboration across sectors of road safety and traffic psychology research. The MAIC Griffith University Road Safety Research Collaboration conducts traffic psychology and road safety research is primarily in Queensland, with a focus upon research in the areas of motorcycle safety, vehicles as a workplace and fleet safety including heavy vehicle transport and logistics, taxis and rideshare, grey fleet (private vehicles used for work) and motorhome hire and tourism and also driving safety in storm and adverse weather conditions. The research team are involved in extensive industry collaborative research to improve work driving and motorcycle safety along with conducting research utilising our state-of-the-art Traffic Psychology Lab comprising technology such as a driving simulator, biometric shirts, and eye tracker technology.
Our dedicated Traffic Psychology Lab at Griffith University, is at two locations, the School of Applied Psychology at the Mt Gravatt Campus in Brisbane, and also the Gold Coast Campus, Australia. Our Traffic Psychology Lab uses the latest technology to undertake research as part of the MAIC Griffith University Road Safety Research Collaboration. The Traffic Psychology Lab is home to our driving simulator where we can reproduce a wide range of road environments and scenarios designed to improve road safety. Our researchers also use the latest wearable technologies that provide physiological data gaining insight into the health and well being of drivers across typical simulated road environments. Our team also utilise advanced eye tracking technology in conjunction with other technology including gyroscopes to explore road user vision, perceptions and blind spot phenomena.
Our research is particularly focussed upon;
- Work driving safety
- Driver behaviour, attitudes and health and well being when driving for work
- Motorcycle safety
- First responder driving safety and well being
- Impaired driving in the work driving context
- Storm and adverse weather- decision making to drive or stay