Teaming up to drive real change
Liz
Road Safety Specialist
Teaming up to drive real change
Liz
Road Safety Specialist
Our three investment areas
- Safe and accessible transport
We invest in activities that promote safe driving, prevent injury on the roads, and ensure people can connect, through transport, with work, family and the wider community.
- Local communities
We invest in local communities (communities located directly along our road network) by supporting causes that are important to residents and by partnering with organisations that help mitigate the impact of large infrastructure projects on the environment.
- Education and training
We invest in vocational training opportunities for disadvantaged communities and invest in activities encouraging diversity in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education.
Grant and partnership applications
We’re not currently looking for new partners — but our local community grant program runs every six months and will be open again in mid-2019. Through this program, we offer grants of up to $5,000 to local initiatives that help build strong and connected communities.
Have a cause you’d like to see up in lights? Apply to change the light colours on:
- the Sir Hielscher Bridges (Gateway Motorway in Queensland)
- the Bolte Bridge (CityLink in Melbourne)
- the Sound Tube (CityLink in Melbourne)
Our bridge lights can help raise awareness for all kinds of eligible causes and not-for-profit groups. Some examples include:
- Carers Week
- World Diabetes Day
- White Ribbon Day (International Day of the Elimination of Violence against Women)
- Road Safety Week
- NAIDOC Week
We can also promote charitable causes and events through electronic message boards located along our road network.
Find out if your cause is eligible.
Contact us and apply
Joining forces for good
In Queensland we host an annual charity day to raise money for Ronald McDonald House Charities South East Queensland. During the past three years, we’ve raised $545,000 for this charity that provides a home away from home for families with seriously ill children.
Also in Queensland we donate one cent from every toll collected on Legacy Way to Legacy Australia, a charity providing services to Australian families suffering financially or socially during or after defence force service.
In Melbourne we support the Royal Children’s Hospital’s Good Friday Appeal through the Run for the Kids fun run event. As well as giving financial support, we also open our roads for the event so participants can run or walk through the Domain Tunnel and over the Bolte Bridge. We’ve helped raise more than $17 million for the hospital since the event began in 2006.
In Sydney we partner with NeuRA in researching road safety at the Transurban Road Safety Centre.
In Greater Washington we’re working with Union by 1776 to deliver the Transurban Smart Highways Challenge. This program connects transport technology start-ups with experts in the field to develop new products and approaches to vehicle monitoring, smart transportation and road safety.
Transurban Road Safety Centre research partnership
Airbags and other safety features protect passengers in the front of a vehicle. But what about rear seat passengers – how can we better protect them? And how about about seatbelt covers, beaded seat covers, and other comfort aids. Do they prevent or cause injuries in a crash? What can be done to improve safety for motorcyclists?
These are some of the questions we’re investigating through the Transurban Road Safety Centre with our research partner Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA).
NeuRA is an internationally recognised leader in brain and nervous system research and has a strong focus on road safety. The NeuRA team is exploring practical injury prevention strategies to prevent and reduce serious injuries and deaths on the road.
Housed at NeuRA’s headquarters in Randwick, the Transurban Road Safety Centre combines world-class research with state-of-the-art facilities. It includes a crash test sled capable of reaching real-life crash speeds and cameras that can record up to 1200 frames per second, allowing researchers to see what occurs in collisions.
Research topics
During our three-year partnership, NeuRA is testing road-safety issues including:
- the effects of comfort aiders (such as beaded seat covers) on aged driver and passenger safety
- motorcyclist safety and motorcycle design
- rear-seat occupant safety and restraint systems
We will report on NeuRA’s findings and recommendations as the research progresses.
