Publications

This report documents the outcomes of an Austroads project which considered the asset management implications of the new Safe System approach and investigated what implementing a Safe System would mean for asset managers. The report provides a…

Claims for compensation brought by road users against road authorities remain a significant issue across Australia. Further, the claims environment varies between jurisdictions (states and territories) and differences have been found in the…

This discussion paper is aimed to identify the issues relevant to the future operations of road network asset managers, arising from the consequences of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction in the context of reducing the impact of climate change.…

The state of the art in using GIS to integrate crash data with other information sources, and resources and capabilities available for this purpose in Australia and New Zealand, were established through a literature review and a series of…

This report explains why road network asset managers are concerned with understanding and quantifying the remaining life of key components of road infrastructure assets, especially road pavements and bridges. The issues in estimating remaining life…

This report draws out principles of successful environmental management from case studies of various projects. The case studies have been selected to cover a wide range of phases of road planning, construction, maintenance and operation. It…

This report describes a benchmarking study of road asset management decision processes. The study was conducted in 1999, and involved 12 road agencies in 5 nations, with 8 in Australia, and 1 in each of France, New Zealand, Switzerland and the…

This document contains guidelines for integrating road network asset management into a road agency's overall business planning cycle. The guidelines are intended to assist large and small road agencies develop and implement stakeholder driven…

This report contains guidelines describing a typical community consultation process, and its application to the asset management task of defining suitable levels of service and target or intervention standards for configuration, condition, and…