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Incident Response Vehicle Design and Procurement and the Use of Truck Mounted Attenuators in Incident Response
This report examines incident response vehicle (IRV) design and procurement, and the use of truck-mounted attenuators (TMA) in incident response. It documents the research and stakeholder consultation undertaken to inform the development of…
Development of Machine-Learning Decision-Support Tools for Pavement Asset Management
This report explores the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine-Learning (ML) in pavement asset management and details a methodology for developing new use-cases. While there are some existing uses of AI and ML technology in pavement asset…
Best Practice Guidance to Meet the Changing Needs of Transport Network Operations: Strategic Review of Austroads Guide to Traffic Management
This study aims to set a clear plan for the evolution of the Austroads Guide to Traffic Management to ensure it continues to meet the needs of users and remains a critical resource for member agencies and industry. The study was undertaken over…
Prolonging the Life of Road Assets Under Increasing Demand: A Framework and Tools for Informing the Development and Justification of Asset Preservation and Renewal
This report provides an evaluation framework, practices and supporting tools for evaluating road preservation and renewal treatment options for predominantly sprayed seal flexible pavements. It includes a compilation of case studies based on a…
Strategy for an Improved Mechanistic-empirical Flexible Pavement Treatment Design
This report details research undertaken to improve the mechanistic-empirical procedure for pavement rehabilitation and strengthening treatment design included in Austroads Guide to Pavement Technology Part 5: Pavement Evaluation and Treatment Design.…
Network Operation Planning: Case Studies and Capability Building
This report sets out the process, findings and recommendations relating to current network operation planning practices in Australia and New Zealand. The resulting material has been used to develop a Reference Material Toolkit / Library to help…
Decarbonisation of Road Transport Network Operations in Australia and New Zealand
There is a considerable focus on vehicle electrification as the primary driver of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the roads sector. Austroads commissioned the development of this Issues Paper to assess the specific relevance of the greenhouse…
Opportunities in Mobility as a Service (MaaS)
Mobility as a Service, referred to as ‘MaaS’, represents the opportunity for all available public and private transport services to be integrated and bundled into a platform directly accessible by the individual travellers through their mobile…
Case Studies of Critical Learnings in Network Operations, Congestion Management Relief Initiatives and Planned Activities
The 2016 Austroads Congestion and Reliability Review (AP-R534-16) measured the levels of congestion across major cities in Australia and New Zealand, assessed the key causes of congestion, and proposed an approach to identifying and assessing…
Techniques for Incident Management to Support Network Operations Planning
This report investigates current local and international incident management techniques and proposes an Australasian incident management framework that supports network operations planning.