Dr Oscar Oviedo Trespalacios
Faculty of Health,
School of Psychology & Counselling
Biography
Dr Oscar Oviedo-Trespalacios is a Strategic Senior Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) with expertise in human factors engineering, injury prevention, intelligent transport systems, and transportation safety and security. He specialises in the safety and security of all road users (drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians) and the human factors of technological change in the transport system. Dr Oviedo-Trespalacios has extensive experience researching driver behaviour safety issues such as risky driving behaviour in international research projects in more than 25 countries. His clients and partnerships include all levels of government (federal, state, and local), as well as private industry.Dr Oviedo-Trespalacios regularly publishes in major international journals like Accident Analysis and Prevention and Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology, and his research is widely reported in Australian and international media, including the ABC, the New York Times, the Independent, the Men’s Health Magazine, and the Washington Post. In 2019, Dr Oviedo-Trespalacios received the Australasian College of Road Safety’s Inaugural Young Leaders Oration Award in recognition of his inspiring work and growing reputation in distracted driving research. He has served as an expert witness in road safety cases in Australia courts.
Personal details
Positions
- Strategic Senior Research Fellow
Faculty of Health,
School of Psychology & Counselling- Kelvin Grove Q Block Membership
Institute of Health Biomedical Innovation (IHBI),
IHBI Health Projects - Kelvin Grove Q Block Membership
Keywords
Human Factors, Safety Science, Cognitive Engineering, Transport, Injury Prevention, Industrial and Organisational Psychology
Discipline
Public Health and Health Services, Information Systems, Psychology
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
Publications
- Oviedo-Trespalacios O, Regan M, (2021) Driver Distraction. In R Vickerman, International Encyclopedia of Transportation: Volume 7, Transport Psychology, Transport Sustainability and Health, Elsevier p113
- Oviedo-Trespalacios O, Çelik A, Marti-Belda A, Wlodarczyk A, Demant D, Nguyen-Phuoc D, Rubie E, Oktay E, Argandar G, Rod J, Natividade J, Park J, Bastos J, Martínez-Buelvas L, Pereira da Silva M, Velindro M, Sucha M, Orozco-Fontalvo M, Barboza-Palomino M, Yuan Q, Mendes R, Rusli R, Ramezani S, Useche S, de Aquino S, Tsubakita T, Volkodav T, Rinne T, Enea V, Wang Y, King M, (2021) Alcohol-impaired Walking in 16 Countries: A Theory-Based Investigation, Accident Analysis and Prevention, 159 () p
- Oviedo-Trespalacios O, Tichon J, Briant O, (2021) Is a flick-through enough? A content analysis of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) user manuals, PLoS ONE, 16 (6) p
- Oviedo-Trespalacios O, Phillips J, (2021) Sexual activity while driving: A content analysis of media reports, Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 80 () p141
- Oviedo-Trespalacios O, Watson B, (2021) Navigation apps are becoming a threat to road safety (beyond distraction), Injury Prevention p
- Theofilatos A, Ziakopoulos A, Oviedo-Trespalacios O, Timmis A, (2021) To cross or not to cross? Review and meta-analysis of pedestrian gap acceptance decisions at midblock street crossings, Journal of Transport and Health, 22 () p
- Truelove V, Oviedo-Trespalacios O, Freeman J, Davey J, (2021) Sanctions or crashes? A mixed-method study of factors influencing general and concealed mobile phone use while driving, Safety Science, 135 () p
- Rod J, Oviedo-Trespalacios O, Senserrick T, King M, (2021) Older adult pedestrian trauma: A systematic review, meta-analysis, and GRADE assessment of injury health outcomes from an aggregate study sample of 1 million pedestrians, Accident Analysis and Prevention, 152 () p
- Haque M, Oviedo-Trespalacios O, Sharma A, Zheng Z, (2021) Examining the driver-pedestrian interaction at pedestrian crossings in the connected environment: A Hazard-based duration modelling approach, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 150 () p33
- Afghari A, Papadimitriou E, Li X, Kaye S, Oviedo-Trespalacios O, (2021) How much should a pedestrian be fined for intentionally blocking a fully automated vehicle? A random parameters Beta hurdle model with heterogeneity in the variance of the Beta distribution, Analytic Methods in Accident Research, 32 () p
QUT ePrints
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Awards
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2019
- Details
- Recipient of the 2019 Young Leaders Oration Award by the Australian College of Road Safety. This is the peak membership association for road safety professionals, advocates, and members of the public who are focused on improving road safety and achieving a vision of zero road fatalities.
Research projects
- Title
- A Novel Real-Time Risk Assessment System for Vulnerable Road Users at Signalised Intersections Using Artificial Intelligence-Based Video Analytics
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- RSIF2-32
- Start year
- 2021
- Keywords
- Title
- Examining Barriers Associated with the Uptake and Acceptability of Advanced Rider Assistance Systems
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- RSIF2-34
- Start year
- 2021
- Keywords
- Title
- Safe Distractions? Taking the Danger out of Competing Activities
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DE200101079
- Start year
- 2020
- Keywords
Supervision
Current supervisions
- The Effect of Interrelationship among Built Environment, Safety and Security on Pedestrian Route Choice Behaviour
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Shimul (Md. Mazharul) Haque, Dr Md Kamruzzaman, Associate Professor Mark King - Identifying mobile phone use while driving hotspots based on roadway and contextual characteristics
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Mark King - Improving deterrence strategies for drug driving
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Barry Watson, Professor Narelle Haworth - What are the mechanisms and attentional pathways by which roadside advertising impacts on driver attention, inattention and distraction?
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Barry Watson - Preventing the misuse of artificial intelligent technology in health care applications
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Sherrie-Anne Kaye - Developing technology-based intervention to reduce distracted walking
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Andry Rakotonirainy - Examining viability of mobile phone applications to reduce distraction on the roads
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Mark King, Associate Professor Amina Tariq - The epidemiological and psychological risk of older pedestrian trauma and its association with elderly travel patterns and walking intentions
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Mark King - A Human Factors Approach to Modelling Group Cycling Safety
MPhil, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Mark King - The Impact of the Road Environment and Mobile Phone Distraction on Driving Behaviour
MPhil, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Mark King