Publications

By 2025, it is predicted that most new vehicles will be equipped with systems that can read traffic lines and signs. The purpose of this project (FSP6088) is to identify areas of current physical and digital road infrastructure on key highways and…

This project undertook an extensive field audit of Australian and New Zealand freeways and highways to inform the assessment of their readiness for active safety systems and automated driving.The road audit included more than 8 million individual…

This report provides updated unit costs and price indices used to estimate environmental costs in the economic evaluation of Australian road infrastructure and transport projects.

This publication reviews current methodologies for estimating vehicle operating costs (VOC). Recent Austroads work (TP1349) highlighted the need to improve the VOC-road roughness relationship. This report achieves this by conducting a literature…

Local road expenditure data is collected and reported by the Australia Bureau of Statistics and used by the National Transport Commission (NTC) in its heavy vehicle charging methodology. This project is to improve local road expenditure data to…

Austroads commissioned ARRB to consider the current costing procedures used in determining the relative cost share of safety in project evaluation. Australia currently uses a human capital approach to the valuation of crash costs, while many other…