Publications

Dubai is known for its impossibly tall skyscrapers, confoundingly large shopping malls and unbearable summer heat. One aspect of this gleaming city that is sometimes overlooked is its varying array of beautiful vehicular bridges, tiled underpasses…

The purpose of this document is to develop and present a catalogue/checklist of items, which can be employed by transport agencies and their practitioners and consultants to properly document the methodology, data, analysis and results of project…

This document contains estimates of road user unit costs for use in Australia, calculated as at 30 June 2005. The unit costs are presented in a format suitable for use with most road project evaluation models, techniques, and software used by…

Austroads and the Australian Asphalt Pavement Association (AAPA) have jointly prepared this Guide to the Audit and Surveillance of Sprayed Sealing Contract Works as an aid to promoting good practice in the performance of sprayed sealing work.…

The purpose of these Guidelines is to assist road agencies and their contractors in developing a systems approach in the management of environmental issues. The guidelines are structured in four parts to allow the reader to readily access…

This paper describes a study undertaken for Austroads into the growing use by road authorities of "performance" as opposed to "prescriptive" forms of contracts and specifications, and attempts to quantify the expected benefits from this approach and…

This report has been prepared as part of Austroads project NT & E 9904 (T & EP N006), “The Development of Performance Contracts and Specifications”, the goal of which is to develop a framework for performance contracts and specifications. The report…

This document was produced to assist clients and contractors and establish the principles of quality assurance in contracts and defines desirable practice for clients to adequately specify requirements and contractors to deliver capably. It also…