Cars and Cities: Reducing Road Trauma and Enhancing Population Health

Self-harm in adolescence and risk of crash: A 13-year cohort study of novice drivers in New South Wales, Australia

P Cullen, H M'Ller, R Baffsky, A Martiniuk, T Senserrick, K Rogers, M Woodward, MR Stevenson, R McLean, S Sawyer, G Patton, RQ Ivers

2023-08-01

Introduction Self-harm and suicide are leading causes of morbidity and death for young people, worldwide. Previous research has id..

Extreme environmental temperatures and motorcycle crashes: a time-series analysis

MJ Zare Sakhvidi, J Yang, D Mohammadi, H FallahZadeh, A Mehrparvar, M Stevenson, X Basagaña, A Gasparrini, P Dadvand

2022-10-01

Extreme temperature could affect traffic crashes by influencing road safety, vehicle performance, and drivers’ behavior and abilit..

Creating healthy and sustainable cities: what gets measured, gets done

B Giles-Corti, AV Moudon, M Lowe, D Adlakha, E Cerin, G Boeing, C Higgs, J Arundel, S Liu, E Hinckson, D Salvo, MA Adams, H Badland, AA Florindo, K Gebel, RF Hunter, J Mitáš, AL Oyeyemi, A Puig-Ribera, A Queralt

2022-06-01

Modelling SARS-CoV-2 disease progression in Australia and New Zealand: an account of an agent-based approach to support public health decision-making

J Thompson, R McClure, T Blakely, N Wilson, MG Baker, JS Wijnands, TH De Sa, K Nice, C Cruz, M Stevenson

2022-06-01

Objective: In 2020, we developed a public health decision-support model for mitigating the spread of SARS-CoV-2 infections in Aust..

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on air pollution: A global assessment using machine learning techniques

JS Wijnands, KA Nice, S Seneviratne, J Thompson, M Stevenson

2022-06-01

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, most countries implemented public health ordinances that resulted in restricted mobility and..

The effect of telematic based feedback and financial incentives on driving behaviour: A randomised trial

M Stevenson, A Harris, JS Wijnands, D Mortimer

2021-09-01

Aim: In-vehicle telematics monitoring systems that provide driver feedback have been identified as a promising intervention to inf..

Persistence or reversal? The micro-effects of time-varying financial penalties

D Mortimer, A Harris, JS Wijnands, M Stevenson

2021-08-01

Many financial incentives are time-varying due to the presence of time-limits, benefit ceilings and/or penalty thresholds. The pot..

Particulate matter and premature mortality: A Bayesian meta-analysis

NT Waidyatillake, PT Campbell, D Vicendese, SC Dharmage, A Curto, M Stevenson

2021-07-02

Background: We present a systematic review of studies assessing the association between ambient particulate matter (PM) and premat..

Using machine learning to examine associations between the built environment and physical function: A feasibility study

JN Rachele, J Wang, JS Wijnands, H Zhao, R Bentley, M Stevenson

2021-07-01

Linking geospatial neighbourhood design characteristics to health and behavioural data from population-representative cohorts is l..

Identifying safe intersection design through unsupervised feature extraction from satellite imagery

JS Wijnands, H Zhao, KA Nice, J Thompson, K Scully, J Guo, M Stevenson

2021-03-01

The World Health Organization has listed the design of safer intersections as a key intervention to reduce global road trauma. Thi..

Streetscape augmentation using generative adversarial networks: Insights related to health and wellbeing

Jasper S Wijnands, Kerry A Nice, Jason Thompson, Haifeng Zhao, Mark Stevenson

2020-08-01

Deep learning using neural networks has provided advances in image style transfer, merging the content of one image (e.g., a photo..

Real-time monitoring of driver drowsiness on mobile platforms using 3D neural networks

JS Wijnands, J Thompson, KA Nice, GDPA Aschwanden, M Stevenson

2020-07-01

Driver drowsiness increases crash risk, leading to substantial road trauma each year. Drowsiness detection methods have received c..

A global analysis of urban design types and road transport injury: an image processing study.

Jason Thompson, Mark Stevenson, Jasper S Wijnands, Kerry A Nice, Gideon Dpa Aschwanden, Jeremy Silver, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Peter Rayner, Robyn Schofield, Rohit Hariharan, Christopher N Morrison

2020-01-01

BACKGROUND: Death and injury due to motor vehicle crashes is the world's fifth leading cause of mortality and morbidity. City and ..

The "Paris-end" of Town?: Deriving Urban Typologies Using Three Imagery Types

Kerry Nice, Jason Thompson, Jasper Wijnands, Gideon Aschwanden, Mark Stevenson

2020-01-01

Urban typologies allow areas to be categorised according to form and the social, demographic, and political uses of the areas. The..

Fewer cars, healthier cities.

Mark Stevenson

2019-12-18

Why winning a car lottery in Beijing isn’t such good news

Safer cycling and the urban road environment: A case control study

Lynn B Meuleners, Mark Stevenson, Michelle Fraser, Jennie Oxley, Geoffrey Rose, Marilyn Johnson

2019-08-01

This study aimed to identify features of the road environment that increased the risk of on-road bicycle crashes in Perth, Austral..