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Options for Managing the Impacts of Aged Heavy Vehicles
AP-R637-21
8 Apr 2021
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This report investigates policy options for reducing the harmful effects of the oldest trucks operating on Australian and New Zealand roads. Aged trucks impose a financial burden on the community through their effects on human health and the…
Community Attitudes to Road Freight Vehicles
AP-R314-07
30 Oct 2007
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This report describes the perceived impact of heavy freight vehicles using major freight routes on people living or working close to such routes. The literature obtained, and the experience of relevant stakeholders, suggested that noise and…
Strategies for Reducing the Environmental Impacts of Increased Night-Time Operations of Road Freight: A Scoping Study
AP-R315-07
30 Oct 2007
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It is predicted that the Australian road freight task will more than double between 2000 and 2020. The Australian heavy vehicle industry estimates that the increased road freight task will result in the addition of approximately 50,000 trucks to the…
Maintenance Techniques to Reduce Social and Environmental Impacts
AP-R291-06
30 May 2006
Asset Management
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Selection of maintenance techniques is always a balance between the administering authority costs and social and environmental costs and outcomes. This project provides practical information and a methodology (including a worked example) for…
Modelling, Measuring and Mitigating Road Traffic Noise
AP-R277-05
1 Nov 2005
Environment
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This Report examines the role of noise impact assessment in the management of road traffic noise. Part 1 provides an overview of noise impact assessment including issues such as the existing noise environment, route selection and route changes,…
Review of Air Quality Models for Roads
AP-R249-04
12 May 2004
Environment
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The Austroads project T+E.E.531 was undertaken to determine to the state of the art in regional and local air quality modelling within Australia as applied to road transport projects and to provide recommendations for the way forward to address…
Guidelines for Conducting Air Quality Studies
AP-R175-00
1 Jan 2000
Environment
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The principle objective of air quality impact assessment is to give the community an acceptable assessment of the air quality changes brought about through a significant road project. The initial in-house scoping of a significant road project,…
Review of Vertical Exhausts
AP-105-93
1 Jan 1993
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The Review of Vertical Exhausts report concludes that vertical exhaust stacks on heavy vehicles result in dramatically improved air quality and only slightly higher noise levels compared to conventional low exit exhaust systems in an urban…
Review of Noise Generated by Heavy Vehicle Exhaust/Engine Brake
AP-101-93
1 Jan 1993
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This Austroads report gives details on the noise levels and changes in frequencies generated by the operation of engine brakes. The report proposes development of a test for noise monitoring (stationary or moving vehicle) as an Australian Design…
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