Publications

The Seaford Rail Extension Project, currently under construction to the south of Adelaide, South Australia, requires a 1.125km long viaduct to cross the Onkaparinga Valley and River. The solution chosen is an incrementally launched, concrete box…

The 2.5km long West Gate Bridge comprises an eastern and western concrete approach viaduct, 871m and 670m respectively in length either side of the 850 m long cable stayed steel box girder main span section. The key objective with the West Gate…

The main structural components of the railway bridge at Bankstown, installed in January 2011, are two 18m steel welded arch trusses with an overall height of 3.5m. Each truss comprises fabricated box sections for the chords and I sections for the…

The existing rail track support on the Sydney Harbour Bridge consists of timber transoms and deck supported on steel stringers and cross-girders of the Bridge. The deck area of the Bridge is solid except in the rail corridor. Not having a solid deck…

The East Coast Main Line (ECML) is one of the busiest and most successful railway lines in the United Kingdom and it is challenged with improving efficiency for passenger and freight services to meet future demands for low carbon transportation. A…

This paper provides a high level overview of the Kingsgrove to Revesby Quadruplication Project. This project is being delivered by Transport Construction Authority (TCA) in an alliance with Leighton Contractors, AECOM (formerly Maunsell Australia),…

The objective of Austroads Project NS1203 (Estimating Road Network Congestion and Associated Costs) is to develop a procedure to calculate delay and associated congestion costs by making use of directly measurable traffic data. Network performance…

This report reviews the tools that monitor, measure and evaluate the performance of the road network, for both arterials and freeways. The interest in measurement and evaluation tools for the overall network is mainly driven by the need to operate…

This Austroads project was initiated to enable road authorities to develop a better understanding of how various traffic management tools and proposed operational changes to the road network affected the performance of the entire road network, with…

Integrated tools can be a toolbox of technologies and procedures which combine both hard engineering methods such as the use of shoulders and lane access controls as well as dynamic traffic management tools such as ramp meters, incident detection,…