Researcher's Resource Page
Summary: References and resources for bicycle helmet research
Helmet Construction and Performance
Some great articles
Statistics and Medical Journal References
Consumer information
SafetyLit produces a weekly digest with hundreds of journal articles abstracted every week. A search using the phrase "bicycle helmet" finds more than 300 journal articles and reports on the topic. A goldmine for researchers provided by the Center for Injury Prevention Policy & Practice at San Diego State University. You can subscribe for the weekly report, one of the most useful ways to keep current on journal articles in the helmet field.
The TRIS page
You can research journal articles on bicycle helmets (and other subjects) on the
TRIS Search Page. TRIS has more than 400,000 books, journal articles, and technical reports on transportation research from the 1960's to the present. Put "bicycle and helmet" in the search window and it will return more than 145 references. The abstracts are sometimes disappointing, but the citations are very useful.
Evaluations
We have a page up on evaluations for helmet campaigns. But the best list of studies and references on educational campaign evaluations is the page titled "Bicycle Injury Interventions Programs to Increase Helmet Use: Education" on the Harborview Injury Prevention Center site. We can't hope to match that. You may find a lot more with a search on helmets on their site.
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, part of DOT, has an extensive report called
It includes lessons learned from Austin, Texas; Jacksonville and Duval County, Florida; the State of Maryland; the State of Oregon; Port Angeles, Washington, and Seymour, Connecticut. The Web link actually has the entire CD if you click on "Table of Contents," and clicking on the "printer friendly version" link gets you a 219 page file in .pdf format that is actually the whole report.
Market Statistics
What little we know about the size of global or national helmet markets.
Our Search Function
You can use our site's search function for specific points that we may have missed.
What we do not have
We have put up virtually everything we know on the Web. Some major gaps remain, and you will not find information here on:
Another recommended site
- For a broader range of bicycle safety information than the helmet material we have here don't miss The BikePlan Source. It is a unique Web page dedicated to bike program planners. It has information on bicycle-friendly facilities, a growing and evolving online bicycle planning and program guide, an extensive reference library and much more.
A Site by Helmet Sceptics
How to Cite or Reference Our Materials
We include author information for any material that is not our own. Since our own Web pages are not articles, we don't identify an author, and anyone checking your references will not find one either. We suggest that you use Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute as the author, and the Last Revised date at the bottom of each page as the date. A reference checker seeing a more recent date will then know the reason why anything you cited might have changed.
This page was last revised on: October 18, 2009.
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