Publications

Road trauma in rural and remote areas of Australia is a major national road safety problem. 

Guide to Asset Management Part 5E contains guidelines for and background notes on network level measurement and reporting of pavement cracking data for road network management purposes in Australia and New Zealand. The guidelines discuss the types…

Guide to Asset Management Part 5C contains guidelines for, and background notes on, measurement and reporting of rutting or transverse profiles for road network management purposes in Australia and New Zealand. The guidelines define rutting as a…

This document is Part 2 of the Austroads Guide to Road Safety. It is intended as a guide to the process of strategy development and evaluation. It outlines options for strategy development and the value of a ‘vision’ in driving strategy development.…

This document is an overview of Austroads road safety publications, including those still in the preparation or planning stage. It commences with a discussion of road crash costs and road authorities’ duty of care to provide safe travel. The…

Part 8 of the Guide to Project Evaluation (the Guide) presents worked examples demonstrating appropriate use of project evaluation techniques applied to a selection of infrastructure upgrading projects commonly faced by practitioners. Some of these…

Part 4D of the Guide to Pavement Technology replaces, in part, the 1988 Austroads Guide to Stabilisation in Roadworks. 

This Guide introduces the concepts of risk assessment and risk management in the road safety network context. The joint Australia and New Zealand Standard on risk management (AS/NZS 4360:2004) is used as the basis and structure for this document.…

Guide to Asset Management Part 5B contains guidelines for and background notes on the conduct of response type and profile-based roughness measurement for road network management purposes in Australia and New Zealand. The guidelines define roughness…