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Productivity Implications of Heavy Vehicle Safety Programs
The purpose of this project was to assess the productivity benefits achieved by companies as a result of improving the safety of their operations, particularly in relation to safer driving. The objectives were therefore to identify safety programs…
Environment and Design for Older Drivers: Stage II Volume 1 - Overview
Road design plays a major role in road safety, however, has generally not taken the older road user into consideration. There is therefore a need to take effective action to reduce risk levels to older drivers by designing roads that accommodate…
Development of the Austroads School Road Safety Education Check List: Final Report
Most Australasian jurisdictions remain committed to school-based road safety education (RSE) programs in both the primary and secondary sectors. Whilst the difficulties of conducting outcome evaluations appear daunting, the magnitude of the…
Economic Evaluation of Road Proposals: Harmonisation of Non-Urban Road User Cost Models
The purpose of this document is to maintain and improve the validity and harmonisation of estimates of non-urban road user costs (RUCs) in Australia. Australian road agencies use a range of models to estimate RUC’s for use in investment evaluation,…
Australia at the Crossroads, Roads in the Community: A Summary
The findings of Austroads major theme project - Roads in the Community - have been published as a two-part report Roads in the Community Are They Doing Their Job? and Roads in the Community: Towards Better Practice. The report was commissioned as an…
Roads in the Community Part 2: Towards better practice
The findings of Austroads major theme project - Roads in the Community - have been published as a two-part report Roads in the Community Are They Doing Their Job? and Roads in the Community: Towards Better Practice. The report was commissioned as an…
Roads in the Community Part 1: Are they doing their job?
The findings of Austroads major theme project - Roads in the Community - have been published as a two-part report Roads in the Community Are They Doing Their Job? and Roads in the Community: Towards Better Practice. The report was commissioned as an…
A Minimum Common Dataset for Reporting of Crashes on Australian Roads
Although there is considerable commonality of data among existing State and Territory road crash data collections, there is also much that is dissimilar. Lack of consistency in data collection reduces the potential to analyse recorded road crash…
Benchmarking Framework
This document establishes a framework for Austroads member organisations to implement benchmarking programs to improve their effectiveness and efficiency by discovering and sharing best practices.
Economic Effects of Infrastructure
This report enables Austroads to effectively position the debate in identifying and assessing the macroeconomic affects of investment in road infrastructure. The report also provides a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model for use by Austroads…