Want to be rewarded up to
$120 for good driving ?

Young driver crash risk

1

5

in

deaths of young people

Road crashes account for

to monitor your driving

using technology

smartphone app

provides drivers feedback

What is the trial about?

The FEEDBACK Trial aims to reduce road crashes among young drivers by trialling a new
intervention that uses technology to monitor your driving and provide feedback

Young drivers are at increased risk of crashing

Young drivers comprise

14%

25%

of licence holders yet

of all serious crashes

are young drivers

THE FEEDBACK TRIAL*

4000

young drivers

recruiting

Source: VicRoads (2023). Reducing P driver crash risk & Transport for NSW (2023). Young drivers ;

* This is a joint research conducted in collaboration with the University of Western Australia, the University of Melbourne, Monash University, and the Queensland University of Technology. The research is supported by government agencies and has been approved by the University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Committee (ID 2024-25244-52011-6)

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What’s in it for you?


You can be rewarded up to $120 and have the chance
to win $100 vouchers every week just by driving

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What do you have to do?

Complete a 10-minute
questionnaire


Download the app

Drive as you

normally would

Compete a post-trial

10-minute questionnaire

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Are you eligible?

You are between

17-23 years old

Young driver

Have a P1 licence
(first provisional
licence or red Ps)
to drive a car


Licence

Have access to a
vehicle you drive
regularly


Vehicle

Have a
smartphone with
location services

Smartphone

Live in QLD, NSW, VIC and WA

Location

How fast you go

Speed

Using mobile phone

Distraction

Braking and cornering

Smoothness

Travel distances and frequency of trips

Usage

What info does the app provide?

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Download

You can download the DrivePoints app from your app store.

We will email you an activation code once you have registered for the study
(using the “join the trial” button)


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  • Yes! As long as you are
    on your P1 licence at the
    time of joining, you'll be
    eligible.

I'm about to reach the
end of my P1 licence,
can I still join?

  • You are welcome to withdraw from the trial at any point, although you may not be eligible to receive financial compensation. To withdraw, please contact the research team at feedback-thus@unimelb.edu.au.

How can I withdraw
from the trial?

  • You will receive an SMS message on the first day of the trial given that you have successfully activated the app

How will I know when
the trial has started?

  • At the end of the trial, you
    will receive an SMS
    message with a link to the
    post-trial questionnaire.
    Once you have fill out this
    questionnaire, the trial will
    be completed.

How will I know when
the trial has ended?

You will receive weekly SMS. You'll receive two messages during the
first four weeks of the trial. After the first four weeks, you will receive a
message indicating the start of the weekly draw. Depending on the
groups you will be assigned to, you will be informed about your safe
driving account, your DrivePoints scores, and your monthly targets.


For the next 20 weeks, you'll get a message every Sunday announcing
the weekly draw winner. After this 20-week period, there will be a final
4-week period where you will only get two messages, the last one
including the questionnaire you'll have to complete to conclude the
trial.




Why am I receiving SMS messages & when can I expect
them?

  • You may be able to see
    feedback on your driving in
    the form of a DrivePoints
    that based on factors like
    how fast you've been
    driving, how harshly you're
    braking or accelerating.

What can I see in the
app?

If you have a safedriving
account, you will receive
an update on your
balance every month via
SMS




  • .

How can I check how
much money is left in
my safe driving
account?

  • Every Sunday, the winner of the weekly draw will be announced via SMS.

How will I know who
won the weekly
draw?

  • The research team will contact you to confirm your choice of either
    a $100 Uber Eats or petrol voucher. You will then receive a text
    message with your voucher details. Please contact the research
    team (smart-thus@unimelb.edu.au)     if you won the draw but didn't
    receive your voucher.

I won the weekly draw, how will I get my voucher?

  • If you are in the group that have safe
    driving account, at the end of the
    28-week trial, you'll receive an SMS
    message with a link to complete the
    final questionnaire. Once you have
    done this, the research team will be
    in touch via phone or email to
    coordinate depositing the remaining
    funds of your safe driving account
    into a nominated bank account.

How will I get the funds from
my safe driving account?

  • Your data is handled according to
    the     Australian Privacy Principles
    (APP) guidelines. The app will collect
    data on your car's movements, but
    all of your data is de-identified and
    stored in a secure database, and is
    only used for research purposes.

Am I being tracked, and is my
data secure?

  • Your data will be used to see whether feedback and financial compensation had an
    effect on improving your DrivePoints scores. We will also use your driver's licence
    information to check with each of the three states' Department of Transport whether
    you were involved in any police-reported crashes during the trial.

How is my data being used?

Yes, this project was approved by the University of Melbourne Human Ethics Committee and assigned the number: 0390039002

This trial is also registered under the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR) under the registration number ACTRN12623000387628p.


Does this project have Ethics
approval?

frequently asked questions

general

  • Once you have registered,
    we will send you an email
    with a link to download the
    app to your smartphone,
    and an activation code.
    Once you have installed
    and activated the app, you
    can follow the steps
    provided on screen to set
    it up.

How do I install and
activate the app?

APP

&

SMS

  • No one will see any information in the app during
    the first and last four weeks of the trial.
    Depending on the groups you will be assigned to,
    you may not see anything in the app during the
    entire trial - but in order to be eligible for the
    draw, please ensure that your location services
    remain switched on for the app the whole time!

Why am I not seeing anything in the app?

Weekly draw and

safe driving account

Data security and privacy

Contact

Transport, Health and Urban Systems Research Lab.

The University of Melbourne Parkville, Victoria, 3010, Australia

Web: https://msd.unimelb.edu.au/thus

Mailing Address

feedback-thus@unimelb.edu.au

  • Email Address

* This is a joint research conducted in collaboration with the University of Western Australia, the University of Melbourne, Monash University, and the Queensland University of Technology. The research is supported by government agencies and has been approved by the University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Committee (ID 2024-25244-52011-6)