Designing injury rehabilitation schemes for transport systems of tomorrow

A framework for considering the utility of models when facing tough decisions in public health: a guideline for policy-makers

Jason Thompson, Roderick McClure, Nick Scott, Margaret Hellard, Romesh Abeysuriya, Rajith Vidanaarachchi, John Thwaites, Jeffrey Lazarus, John Lavis, Susan Michie, Chris Bullen, Mikhail Prokopenko, Sheryl L Chang, Oliver M Cliff, Cameron Zachreson, Antony Blakely, Tim Wilson, Driss Ait Ouakrim, Vijay Sundararajan

2022-10-08

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the combined disciplines of public health, infectious disease and policy modelling squarely into..

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

Jasper S Wijnands, Kerry A Nice, Sachith Seneviratne, Jason Thompson, Mark Stevenson

2022-05-18

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

Development of a Computational Policy Model for Comparing the Effect of Compensation Scheme Policies on Recovery After Workplace Injury

Jason Thompson, Camilo Cruz-Gambardella

2022-05-10

Introduction The direct comparison of real-world workers' compensation scheme management policies and their impact on aspects of s..

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

Jason Thompson, Rod McClure, Tony Blakely, Nick Wilson, Michael G Baker, Jasper S Wijnands, Thiago Herick De Sa, Kerry Nice, Camilo Cruz, Mark Stevenson

2022-03-03

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

Identifying safe intersection design through unsupervised feature extraction from satellite imagery

Jasper S Wijnands, Haifeng Zhao, Kerry A Nice, Jason Thompson, Katherine Scully, Jingqiu Guo, Mark Stevenson

2020-10-19

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

Computational modelling and systems ergonomics: a system dynamics model of drink driving-related trauma prevention

Paul M Salmon, Gemma JM Read, Jason Thompson, Scott McLean, Rod McClure

2020-08-02

System dynamics is a computational modelling method that is used to understand the dynamic interactions influencing behaviour in c..

Simulating the behaviour of complex systems: computational modelling in ergonomics

Gemma JM Read, Paul M Salmon, Jason Thompson, Roderick J McClure

2020-08-02

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..

Who is to blame for crashes involving autonomous vehicles? Exploring blame attribution across the road transport system

Elin Poellaenen, Gemma JM Read, Ben R Lane, Jason Thompson, Paul M Salmon

2020-04-02

The introduction of fully autonomous vehicles is approaching. This warrants a re-consideration of road crash liability, given driv..

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 perils of perfect performance; considering the effects of introducing autonomous vehicles on rates of car vs cyclist conflict

Jason Thompson, Gemma Read, Jasper Wijnands, Paul M Salmon

2020-01-01

How humans will adapt and respond to the introduction of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is uncertain. This study used an agent-based mo..

Computational methods to model complex systems in sports injury research: agent-based modelling (ABM) and systems dynamics (SD) modelling

Adam Hulme, Scott Mclean, Paul M Salmon, Jason Thompson, Ben R Lane, Rasmus Oestergaard Nielsen

2019-12-01

The safety in numbers (SiN) effect for cyclists is widely observed but remains poorly understood. Although most studies investigat..

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

Jasper S Wijnands, Jason Thompson, Kerry A Nice, Gideon DPA Aschwanden, Mark Stevenson

2019-10-13

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

Evidence for the 'safety in density' effect for cyclists: validation of agent-based modelling results

Jason Hugh Thompson, Jasper S Wijnands, Suzanne Mavoa, Katherine Scully, Mark R Stevenson

2019-10-01

The safety in numbers (SiN) effect for cyclists is widely observed but remains poorly understood. Although most studies investigat..

Towards a complex systems approach in sports injury research: simulating running-related injury development with agent-based modelling

Adam Hulme, Jason Thompson, Rasmus Oestergaard Nielsen, Gemma JM Read, Paul M Salmon

2019-05-01

OBJECTIVES: There have been recent calls for the application of the complex systems approach in sports injury research. However, b..

A complex systems approach for understanding the effect of policy and management interventions on health system performance

Jason Thompson, Roderick McClure, Andrea DeSilva

2019-03-29

While many authors in the areas of public health and medicine have encouraged use of complex systems methods for investigating pre..

On-road bicycle lane types, roadway characteristics, and risks for bicycle crashes

Christopher N Morrison, Jason Thompson, Michelle C Kondo, Ben Beck

2019-02-01

Bicycle lanes reduce real and perceived risks for bicycle vs. motor vehicle crashes, reducing the burden of traffic injuries and c..

Bad behaviour or societal failure? Perceptions of the factors contributing to drivers' engagement in the fatal five driving behaviours

Paul M Salmon, Gemma JM Read, Vanessa Beanland, Jason Thompson, Ashleigh J Filtness, Adam Hulme, Rod McClure, Ian Johnston

2019-01-01

The so-called 'fatal five' behaviours (drink and drug driving, distraction and inattention, speeding, fatigue, and failure to wear..

Health and the compact city

Mark Stevenson, Jason Thompson

2019-01-01

This book focuses on the challenge that Australia faces in transitioning to renewable energy and regenerating its cities via a tra..

Optimising the health of people in road injury compensation processes; What is the role of regulators and insurers?

J Thompson, Nieke Elbers, Ian Cameron

2019-01-01