Publications

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Webinar: Is Zero Road Trauma Possible?
This webinar explores how to use backcasting, a vision-based planning approach, to determine what the metrics of a safe road system should look like in order to achieve zero road trauma and how the current road system is tracking towards this…
Guide to Road Safety: Set
Easy access to all parts of the Guide to Road Safety
Webinar: Review of the Guide to Road Safety and Structure for Online Access – Part 7
The Review of the Guide to Road Safety and Structure for Online Access project has updated the Guide to Road Safety with the latest research, primarily from Austroads published material, and restructured the guide for better online access and to…
Guide to Road Safety Part 7: Road Safety Strategy and Management
Guide to Road Safety Part 7: Road Safety Strategy and Management is a guide to the process of road safety strategy development, management, evaluation and risk assessment.
Webinar: Local Government Road Safety Management Guidance
This webinar, presented on 27 February 2020, provides an overview of Austroads' guidance on contemporary best practice methods for developing and implementing road safety management frameworks for local government. The webinar was presented by Paul…
Local Government Road Safety Management Guidance
This guidance is designed to provide contemporary best practice methods on the development and implementation road safety management frameworks suitable for use in a local government context. The type of roads managed by local government means that…
Safe System Infrastructure on Mixed Use Arterials

This report provides a synthesis of key safety solutions as well as issues that need to be considered when effectively addressing safety on urban mixed use arterial routes.

Mixed use urban arterials account for a large proportion of high?severity…

Verification of Austroads Road Design Criteria Based on Objective Safety Evidence

This report provides a compendium of recent and robust evidence on the relationships between twenty key geometric design criteria and safety outcomes.

The project critically reviewed quality research sources to identify crash modification factors…

Guidance on Median and Centreline Treatments to Reduce Head-on Casualties
This report presents a compendium of local and overseas practice and experience in minimising the risk and severity of head-on crashes. It is intended to assist road safety practitioners identify effective actions that can be taken to reduce the…
Road Geometry for Improved Rural Safety

This report draws on literature and crash data analysis to identify and quantify geometric road design elements which contribute to casualty crash occurrence and severity on rural roads, e.g. lack of sealed shoulders, steep downhill grades combined…