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Update to Guide to Road Design: Intersections
This report summarises the activities undertaken as part of a project to provide contemporary intersection design guidance and achieve timely updates to Austroads Guide to Road Design Part 4, 4A, 4B and 4C based on best practice evidence to improve…
Minor Amendments to the Austroads Guide to Road Design: Part 4, 4A, 4B, 4C
Road authorities, practitioners and other stakeholders have identified minor editorial issues within the Austroads Guide to Road Design (GRD) Parts 4, 4A, 4B and 4C that result in possible ambiguity or inconsistency within the Guides to Road Design…
Effectiveness and Implementation of Raised Safety Platforms
The purpose of this report is to provide clarity around the design and operation of raised safety platforms and deepen understanding of leading international practice across a range of applications and performance dimensions. A review of literature…
Improved Guidance on Interrupted Traffic Flow Theory
This report summarises activities undertaken to update guidance on interrupted traffic flow theory contained within Austroads Guide to Traffic Management Part 2 and Part 3. The updates to the guidance will enable practitioners to improve their…
Understanding and Improving Safe System Intersection Performance
Intersection crashes account for approximately 30% of severe injuries in Australia and New Zealand. This study sought to improve understanding of the key factors in intersection severe injury crashes, and to develop initiatives to improve the design…
Bicycle Safety at Roundabouts
This report investigates how the geometric design components of a roundabout may contribute to bicycle crashes.
Specification of Geopolymer Concrete: General Guide
This general guide contains: an introduction to geopolymer concrete, its constituents and how it is manufactured
Improving the Performance of Safe System Infrastructure: Final Report
This report summarises the findings of a three-year study which reviewed the safety performance of selected road infrastructure elements and provided solutions that were more closely aligned with the Safe System ideal.
Cemented Materials Characterisation: Final Report
This report brings together five years of research into the modulus, strength fatigue characteristics of cement treated granular materials as used in road pavements. Laboratory procedures used to prepare, cure and test materials for flexural modulus,…
Framework for the Revision of Austroads Design Procedures for Pavements Containing Cemented Materials

The laboratory characterisation of cemented materials for road pavements was completed in Austroads Project TT1359 Cost-Effective Structural Treatments for Rural Highwaysand more recently in Austroads Project TT1664 Cemented Materials…