Publications

This document contains estimates of road user unit costs for use in Australia, calculated as at 30 June 2007. The unit costs are presented in a format suitable for use with most road project evaluation models, techniques, and software used by…

The document provides a guide to the use of bituminous materials in road-making applications. Bituminous materials include bitumen obtained from the refining of crude oil and products derived from bitumen through additional manufacturing processes…

Guide to Road Design Part 5: Drainage Design is concerned with road drainage design for all drainage infrastructure, except bridges which is covered in the Austroads Guide to Bridge Technology. Part 5 provides guidance on good design process and…

Part 2: Pavement Structural Design – provides advice for the structural design of sealed road pavements. The advice has been generally developed from the approaches followed in the Austroads member authorities. However, as it encompasses the wide…

The aim of the Guide to Traffic Management Part 2: Traffic Theory is to provide practitioners with the theoretical background necessary to appreciate the nature of traffic behaviour and to undertake analyses required in the development and…

This document gives guidance to project delivery practitioners on the use of contracts for the delivery of projects. It is primarily for those who are gaining experience in contract management, however it will also be a useful reference for more…

This document outlines appropriate standards of practice and procedures for the delivery of works by direct management. It assumes that the organisation has a commitment to undertake works using a direct management workforce with appropriate…

This method describes the procedure for the determination of the surface texture depth of road surfaces, by the sand patch technique. This method is only applicable to surface texture depths greater than 0.3 mm. This method was developed from BS…

Guide to Asset Management Part 5D contains guidelines for, and background notes on, network level measurement and reporting of deflection data, for road network management purposes in Australia and New Zealand. The guidelines discuss the frequency…

Part 8 of the Guide to Traffic Management – Local Area Traffic Management, is concerned with the planning and management of road space usage within a local area, to reduce traffic volumes and speeds in local streets, to increase amenity and improve…