Publications

This publication provides a framework for planners and designers of roads to become informed on environmental impacts and current methods to minimise them. The information is divided into three sections: this printed report is Section A, which…

This guide introduces the concept of risk based environmental management and describes the best practice process of environmental risk management. It provides guidelines on undertaking an environmental risk management process for road projects. For…

A form of contract, lane rental was developed to facilitate major motorway rehabilitation contracts in the United Kingdom in the 1980s, and has since been used in the United States. Lane rental contracts are a performance-based contract where road…

The State of the Environment Report (DEST, 1996, p.3-50) states that road planning priorities with an "emphasis ... on providing high-capacity roads to fringe and coastal areas" has led to dispersed land use that is now under question. Certainly…

The Federal Government's tax reform package (A New Tax System - ANTS) involves however a range of changes in the taxation of goods and services, especially transport fuel, the nature of social security and the level of income tax paid by individuals.…

The Government's plans for modernisation of the taxation system within Australia have fuelled public debate on the need and shape of this reform. A broad based consumption tax, a GST (Goods and Services Tax) has been proposed. The Government's tax…

The document provides a summary of experiences and contractual arrangements of private sector involvement and toll roads in Australia. It is intended to assist those who may be involved in establishing future mechanisms for major road projects where…

Governments are moving away from the traditional cash accounting framework to adopting accrual accounting, the method of accounting used in the private sector. This will require the capitalisation of the road infrastructure, which is an area of…

In response to a concern that road evaluation models utilised by Australian road authorities were yielding inconsistent and inaccurate estimates of road user benefits, Austroads surveyed and assessed evaluation models currently in use. Information…