Fifty-eight projects will share over $29 million in grant funding to improve road safety thanks to the Albanese Government's National Road Safety Action Grants Program.
Grants of between $20,000 and $1.5 million have been awarded to non-infrastructure road safety projects focused on expanding new road safety technology, research and education.
Assistant Minister for Regional Development, Senator Anthony Chisholm will visit the team working on UNSW's VRStreetLab project today, who are set to use their grant funding allocation of $233,965 to evaluate cyclist behaviour through a Virtual Reality (VR) Street Simulator.
Promoting road safety in First Nations communities has also been prioritised through the Program, with nearly $1.3 million allocated to the Katherine West Health Board Aboriginal Corporation in the Northern Territory to reduce road trauma through awareness programs and educational technology.
The National Road Safety Action Grants Program has already provided funding toward 23 non-infrastructure road safety projects, through its previous round, by prioritising five key areas critical to reducing deaths and serious injuries on Australian roads:
- Vulnerable Road Users
- Community Education and Awareness
- First Nations Road Safety
- Technology and Innovation
- Research and Data.