Dr Robert Anderson

Position Deputy Director Email robert@casr.adelaide.edu.au Telephone +61 8 8303 5888 Fax +61 8 8232 4995 Qualifications B.E. (Hons) University of Adelaide; Ph.D. (Mech Eng) University of Adelaide Specialised Areas Brain injury biomechanics; Pedestrian injury; Simulation and modelling of pedestrians and occupants in crashes; Road safety evaluations; Sub-system impact testing to simulate pedestrian impact severity Awards Elizabeth Penfold Simpson Prize 2003 awarded by the Brain Foundation (SA); Peter Vulcan Award 2002 awarded by the Austroads Conference Committee Professional Affiliations Engineers Australia Injury Biomechanics Panel; SA Road Safety Advisory Council Vehicle Restraint Use Task Force; CS-076, Standards Australia Committee for Protective Helmets for Vehicle Users; CS-085, Standards Australia Committee for Child Restraints For Use In Motor Vehicles Current Research Multi-body models for stochastic modelling of pedestrian collisions; Design-for-age specifications for child restraints; Finite element modelling of mechanisms of brain injury; Estimating future benefi ts of vehicle Electronic Stability Control in Australia CASR Publications Anderson RWG, Doecke S, Searson DJ (2009) Vehicle age-related crashworthiness of the South Australian passenger fleet (CASR062), Centre for Automotive Safety Research, Adelaide. Anderson RWG, Doecke S, Van Den Berg AL, Searson DJ, Ponte G (2009) The effect of bull bars on head impact kinematics in pedestrian crashes (CASR059), Centre for Automotive Safety Research, Adelaide. Anderson RWG, Hutchinson TP (2009) 'Many children progress from one type of restraint to the next at too small a size: should advice to parents be simple and based on child age, with variation in child size accommodated by overlaps in restraint specifications?', Australasian College of Road Safety on Infants, Children and Young People and Road Safety, Sydney, Australia, 2-3 August 2007. Anderson RWG, Long AD, Serre T (2009) 'Phenomenological continuous contact-impact modelling for multi-body simulations of pedestrian-vehicle contact interactions based on experimental data', Nonlinear Dynamics, 58(1), pp 199-208. Edwards SA, Anderson RWG, Wundersitz LN (2009) Impediments to the use of child restraints (CASR023), Centre for Automotive Safety Research, Adelaide. Mackenzie JRR, Anderson RWG (2009) The effects of Electronic Stability Control interventions on rural road crashes in Australia: simulation of real world crashes (RSRG 2009-005), Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, Canberra. Wundersitz LN, Anderson RWG (2009) On-road observational survey of restraint and child restraint use, 2009 (CASR065), Centre for Automotive Safety Research, Adelaide. Anderson RWG, Baldock MRJ (2008) Vehicle improvements to reduce the number and severity of rear end crashes (CASR052), Centre for Automotive Safety Research, Adelaide. Anderson RWG, Hutchinson TP (2008) 'Optimising product advice based on age when design criteria are based on weight: child restraints in vehicles', Ergonomics, 52(3), pp 312-324. Anderson RWG, Ponte G, Doecke S (2008) A survey of bull bar prevalence at pedestrian crash sites in Adelaide, South Australia (CASR040), Centre for Automotive Safety Research, Adelaide. Anderson RWG, Ponte G, Searson DJ (2008) Benefits for Australia of the introduction of an ADR on pedestrian protection (CASR048), Centre for Automotive Safety Research, Adelaide. Anderson RWG, Ponte G, Searson DJ (2008) 'Potential benefit of an Australian design rule on pedestrian protection', Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 9-12 November 2008. Anderson RWG, Van Den Berg AL, Ponte G, Streeter LD, McLean AJ (2008) 'Testing the pedestrian safety of bull bars: methods and results', Journal of the Australasian College of Road Safety, 19(1), pp 35-43. Anderson RWG (2008) Pedestrian collisions in South Australia (CASR039), Centre for Automotive Safety research, Adelaide. Doecke S, Anderson RWG, Ponte G (2008) 'Bull Bar Prevalence Among Types of Vehicle in Metropolitan Adelaide', Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 9-12 November 2008. Kloeden CN, Anderson RWG, Hutchinson TP (2008) 'Differences between groups of drivers: offences contrasted with crashes', Flinders Journal of Law Reform, 10(3), pp 815-830. McLean AJ, Anderson RWG (2008) 'Metrication of the urban speed limit and pedestrian fatalities', Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 9-12 November 2008. Searson DJ, Anderson RWG (2008) 'Pedestrian Impact Testing: Modelling the Effect of Head-form Mass and Speed', Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 9-12 November 2008. Anderson RWG, Hutchinson TP, Edwards SA (2007) 'Using child age or weight in selecting type of in-vehicle restraint: implications for promotion and design', 51st Annual Scientific Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, Melbourne, Australia, 14-17 October 2007. Anderson RWG, Hutchinson TP (2007) 'The feasibility of age-based criteria for child restraint selection', 20th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles, Lyon, France, 18-21 June 2007. Anderson RWG, McLean AJ, Ponte G, Streeter LD (2007) 'Pedestrian reconstruction using multibody MADYMO simulation and the Polar-II dummy: a comparison of head kinematics', 20th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles, Lyon, France, 18-21 June 2007. Anderson RWG (2007) 'A method for intra-experimental validation for head impact acceleration measurements', Journal of Biomechanics, 40(S2), p S89. Anderson RWG (2007) 'Rate-dependent multibody impact modelling for pedestrian crash simulation', Journal of Biomechanics, 40(S2), p S91. Gibson T, Thai K, Anderson RWG (2007) 'Motorcycle helmet protection and basilar skull fracture', Journal of Biomechanics, 40(S2), p S92. Long AD, Ponte G, Anderson RWG (2007) 'The CASR pedestrian crash analysis: at-scene investigation, computer simulation and sub-system reconstruction', Journal of Biomechanics, 40(S2), p S216. Ponte G, Anderson RWG, Searson DJ (2007) 'A comparison of the pedestrian pasive safety performance of the new vehicle fleet in Australia, France and the United Kingdom', 2007 Road Safety Research, Education and Policing Conference, Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 17-19 October 2007. Anderson RWG, Edwards SA, Hutchinson TP (2006) 'Results and implications of a survey of child restraint use in South Australia', Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 25-27 October 2006. Anderson RWG, Gibson TJ, Cox M, Ryan GA, Gun RT (2006) Whiplash associated disorders: a comprehensive review (CASR016), Centre for Automotive Safety Research, Adelaide. Anderson RWG, Kloeden CN, Hutchinson TP, McLean AJ (2006) 'Choice of licensing method and crashes of young drivers', Journal of the Australasian College of Road Safety, 17(3), pp 28-33. Anderson RWG, Thomas H, Somers RL (2006) 'South Australian primary schools bicycle helmet usage survey', Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 25-27 October 2006. Anderson RWG, Van Den Berg AL, Ponte G, Streeter LD, McLean AJ (2006) Performance of bull bars in pedestrian impact tests (CASR020), Centre for Automotive Safety Research, Adelaide. Anderson RWG, Van Den Berg AL, Ponte G, Streeter LD, McLean AJ (2006) 'Testing the pedestrian safety of bullbars - methods and results', Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 25-27 October 2006. Edwards SA, Anderson RWG, Hutchinson TP (2006) A survey of drivers' child restraint choice and knowledge in South Australia (CASR012), Centre for Automotive Safety Research, Adelaide. Anderson RWG, Kloeden CN, Hutchinson TP, McLean AJ (2005) 'Choice of licensing method and crashes of young drivers', Proceedings of Australasian Road Safety Research, Policing, Education Conference, pp 236-241. Anderson RWG, McLean AJ, Dokko Y (2005) 'Determining accurate contact definitions in multi-body simulations for DOE-type reconstruction of head impacts in pedestrian impacts', 19th International technical conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles, Washington DC, USA, 6-9 June 2005. Anderson RWG, McLean AJ (2005) 'Biomechanics of closed head injury', in Head injury : pathophysiology and management, 2nd edition, P.L. Reilly, R. Bullock (eds), pp 26-40. Versteegh SL, Anderson RWG (2005) Using crash information to improve the treatment of crash injuries (CASR014), Centre for Automotive Safety Research, Adelaide. Anderson RWG, McLean AJ, Ponte G, Lindsay VL, Wundersitz LN (2004) 'Patterns in the incidence and consequences of pedestrian accidents', Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, Perth, Australia, 14-16 November 2004. Anderson RWG (2004) 'Finite element modelling of impact-induced axonal injury in sheep', 7th International Neurotrauma Symposium, Adelaide, Australia, 12-16 September 2004. Hutchinson TP, Anderson RWG, McLean AJ, Kloeden CN (2004) Trends in traffic casualties in South Australia, 1981-2003 (CASR008), Centre for Automotive Safety Research, Adelaide. Ponte G, Van Den Berg AL, Streeter LD, Anderson RWG (2004) 'Pedestrian protection in vehicle impacts: further results from the Australian new car assesment program', Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, Perth, Australia, 14-16 November 2004. Thomas H, Somers RL, Anderson RWG (2004) South Australian primary schools bicycle helmet usage survey (CASR006), Centre for Automotive Safety Research, Adelaide. Anderson RWG, Brown CJ, Blumbergs PC, McLean AJ, Jones NR (2003) 'Impact mechanics and axonal injury in a sheep model', Journal of Neurotrauma, 20(10), pp 961-974. Anderson RWG, Streeter LD, Ponte G, Van De Griend M, Lindsay VL, McLean AJ (2003) 'Pedestrian subsystem head impact results reflect the severity of pedestrian head injuries', International Journal of Vehicle Design, 32(1/2), pp 1-15. Dokko Y, Anderson RWG, Manavis J, Blumbergs PC, McLean AJ, Zhang L, Yang KH, King AI (2003) 'Validation of the human head FE model against pedestrian accidents and its tentative application to the examination of the existing tolerance curve', 18th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles, Nagoya, Japan, 19-22 May 2003. Anderson RWG, McLean AJ, Streeter LD, Ponte G, Sommariva M, Lindsay VL, Wundersitz LN (2002) 'Severity and type of pedestrian injuries related to vehicle impact locations and results of sub-system impact reconstruction', Proceedings of 1999 International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Impacts, pp 289-299. Anderson RWG, Ponte G, Streeter LD (2002) 'Development of head protection for car occupants'', Proceedings of Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, pp 9-14 (vol 1). Ponte G, Anderson RWG, McLean AJ, Streeter LD (2002) Development and testing of production protoype of a protective headband for car occupants (CR210), Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Canberra. Sommariva M, Ponte G, Streeter LD, Anderson RWG (2002) 'Protecting pedestrians in vehicle collisions: results from 2 years of the Australian new car assesment program and the analysis of actual accidents', Proceedings of Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, pp 255-262. Anderson RWG, McLean AJ (2001) 'Vehicle design and speed and pedestrian injury: Australia's involvement in the International Harmonised ResearchAactivities pedestrian safety expert group', Proceedings of Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, pp 1-7 (vol 1). Anderson RWG, Ponte G, McLean AJ (2001) Further development of a protective headband for car occupants (CR205), Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Canberra. Anderson RWG (2001) 'Vehicle travelling speeds and fatal pedestrian crashes in Adelaide', Proceedings of National Speed and Road Safety Conference, p T6a. Anderson RWG, Streeter LD, McLean AJ (2000) 'Estimation of impact severity in pedestrian accidents using accident investigation, computer simulation and physical reconstruction', Proceedings of Road Safety Research, Policing and Education Conference, pp 285-290. Anderson RWG, White K, McLean AJ (2000) The development of a protective headband for car occupants (CR193), Australian Transport Safety Bureau, Canberra. Anderson RWG (2000) A study on the biomechanics of axonal injury (PhD thesis). Anderson RWG (2000) 'The biomechanics of axonal injury in a sheep model of brain injury', Proceedings of Impact of Biomechanics Australia Conference: Neck Injury 2000, pp 1-13. Brown J, Gorrie C, Waite PM, Gibson TJ, Anderson RWG, Griffiths M (2000) 'A study of head injury in fatally injured child pedestrians', Proceedings of Impact of Biomechanics Australia Conference: Neck Injury 2000, pp 25-36. Gibson TJ, Benetatos E, Anderson RWG, Brown J, Duflou J, Waite PM, Gorrie C (2000) 'The use of simulation to assess human tolerance to injury', Simtech 2000, Sydney, Australia, 28 February - 2 March 2000. Spencer SG, Anderson RWG, Streeter LD, McLean AJ (2000) 'Pedestrian sub-system testing in Australia', Proceedings of Impact of Biomechanics Australia Conference: Neck Injury 2000, pp 172-183. Anderson RWG, Brown CJ, Blumbergs PC, Scott G, Finney JW, Jones NR, McLean AJ (1999) 'Mechanisms of axonal injury: an experimental and numerical study of a sheep model of head impact', Proceedings of 1999 International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Impact, pp 107-120. McLean AJ, Kloeden CN, Anderson RWG (1999) 'Speed kills: setting and enforcing speed limits', 6th ITE International Conference on Road Safety and Traffic Enforcement: Beyond 2000, Melbourne, Australia, 6-7 September 1999. Anderson RWG, McLean AJ (1998) 'Crashworthiness research at the NHMRC road accident research unit', Proceedings of StaySafe 44: Developing Safer Motor Vehicles for Australia: seminar held at Parliament House, pp 99-108. Anderson RWG, Brown CJ, Scott G, Blumbergs PC, Finney JW, McLean AJ, Jones NR (1997) 'Biomechanics of a sheep model of axonal injury', Proceedings of 1997 International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Impacts, pp 181-192. Anderson RWG, McLean AJ, Farmer MJB, Lee BH, Brooks CG (1997) 'Vehicle travel speeds and the incidence of fatal pedestrian crashes', Accident Analysis & Prevention, 29(5), pp 667-674. Anderson RWG, McLean AJ (1997) 'Biomechanics of closed head injury', in Head Injury: pathophysiology and management of severe closed injury, P Reilly, R Bullock (eds), Chapman & Hall, London, pp 25-37. McLean AJ, Fildes B, Kloeden CN, Digges KH, Anderson RWG, Moore VM, Simpson DA (1997) Prevention of head injuries to car occupants: an investigation of interior padding options (CR160), Federal Office of Road Safety, Transport and Communiations, Canberra. Zhou C, King HY, Khalil TB, King AI, Anderson RWG, Garrett M, Kloeden CN, McLean AJ, Scott G (1997) 'Madymo model simulation of a pedestrian car accident', Proceedings of 7th Injury Prevention Through Biomechanics Symposium, pp 187-198. McLean AJ, Anderson RWG, Farmer MJB (1996) 'Pedestrian accidents on arterial roads', Highway Engineering in Australia, 28(1), pp 10-17. McLean AJ, Kloeden CN, Anderson RWG, Baird RP, Farmer MJB (1996) 'Data collection and analysis of vehicle factors in relation to pedestrian brain injury', Proceedings of 15th International technical conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV), pp 1408-1411 (vol 2). Willinger R, Guimberteau T, McLean AJ, Anderson RWG, Farmer MJB (1996) 'Experimental and theoretical modelling of head impact: influence of head modelling', Proceedings of International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Impacts, pp 21-34. Anderson RWG, McLean AJ, Farmer MJB, Lee BH, Brooks CG (1995) 'Vehicle travel speeds and the incidence of fatal pedestrian crashes', Proceedings of 1995 International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Impacts, pp 107-117. McLean AJ, Anderson RWG, Farmer MJB, Lee BH, Brooks CG (1994) Vehicle travel speeds and the incidence of fatal pedestrian collisions (CR146), Federal Office of Road Safety, Transport and Communiations, Canberra.