Publications

This report looks at low-cost vehicle classifiers to provide some indication of pavement loading or gross vehicle mass (GVM). WIM equipment is relatively expensive to install and calibrate, and may not be easily installed anywhere in a road network.…

Austroads project Classification of motorcycles as a distinct vehicle class aims to test whether motorcycles can be identified as a separate class of vehicle based on distance between axles. Motorcycles are currently classified as light vehicles…

The purpose of this document is to report on the traveller information industry within Australia, how RAs are using real time traffic data to manage traffic congestion on their road networks, what access policies and pricing strategies are being…

Crash databases are an essential tool in analysing crash risk. Databases allow identification of high crash locations, and provide information on crash causation, allowing these crashes to be effectively targeted. The information contained in crash…

This project forms part of a major Austroads strategic research program to improve the understanding of the relationships between crash risk, road infrastructure and traffic operations. A crash rates database was created for all Australian…

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…

This report aims to ascertain the validity of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to forecast gross combination mass (GCM) values by the correlation of WIM data with classified counts. AI has been applied successfully to speech recognition,…

This report compares the deterioration of two pavement groups in the US-LTPP program (GPS1 and GPS2) with that of the Australian LTPP GPS1 and GPS2 pavement groups. For the non-freezing group of the GPS1 pavements, the US sections had similar…

This report considers the issues and possibilities of a data framework, incorporating road use data and network performance data, that could apply for all road authorities and provides guidance on a way forward, taking into account the current…

The report considers the issues of pricing, partnerships and accessibility in relation to road use data, traffic and network performance data. The aim of this report is to provide information on industry practices and inform the discussion on…