Publications

Part 2, Edition 2 includes the insertion of Commentary F – Documentation and Quality Control of Benefit-Cost Analysis, and Commentary G Small Travel Times Savings, along with additional references.

This Guide contains estimates of road user unit costs for use in Australia, calculated as at 30 June 2010. The unit costs are presented in a format suitable for use with most road project evaluation models, techniques, and software used by…

Part 5 of the Guide to Bridge Technology: Structural Draftingsets out the principles involved in the presentation of bridge structural drawings and is intended to give engineers and draft persons at all levels a sound guide in drafting presentation…

Part 2 of the Austroads Guide to Pavement Technology - Pavement Structural Design contains procedures for the design of flexible pavements consisting of unbound granular materials, flexible pavements that contain one or more bound layers, and rigid…

This Part discusses all aspects of the planning, design and commissioning of road tunnels including structural and geotechnical requirements, fire and life safety, ventilation, lighting, traffic monitoring and control, plant monitoring and control,…

The Guide to Road Design Part 3: Geometric Designprovides road designers and other practitioners with information that is common to the geometric design of road alignments. Part 3 covers a range of geometric design topics such as operating speed,…

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 1 of the Guide to Road Designprovides an introduction to the guide, defining its status, purpose and areas of application and describing the functions and content of each of its nine parts. The context of the road design process within each of…

The Guide to Road Design – Part 4A: Unsignalised and Signalised Intersections provides road designers and other practitioners with guidance on the detailed geometric design of all at-grade intersections (excluding roundabouts). However, some of the…

Austroads Guide to Road Tunnels Part 3: Operation and Maintenance provides guidance on the management of operation and maintenance of road tunnels, including the factors to be considered in setting appropriate performance standards. It also provides…