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Preliminary Methodology for Estimating Cost Implications of Incremental Loads on Road Pavements
This report documents the development of a preliminary set of load-wear-cost (LWC) relationships as a basis for estimating the short-run marginal road wear cost (SRMC) and long-run marginal road wear cost (LRMC) for the main road types comprising…
Emerging Telecommunication Developments in WAN/LAN for Intelligent transport systems
This report provides the background information on analog and digital communication and a review on the WAN and LAN technologies currently used by road agencies. It also describes the future WAN/LAN technologies including their use within the new…
Upstream and Downstream Detection to Improve Congested Network Operation
Congestion in Australian cities has continued to get worse with significant increases in population and new car registrations. About a million new motor vehicles per year were registered in Australia in the years 2005-2007 before the global…
Investigating the Development of a Bridge Assessment Tool for Determining Access for High Productivity Freight Vehicles
This report deals with the first component of the bridge assessment tool and is a scoping study to determine whether there is sufficient data, and whether there exists suitable engineering models, to develop robust and nationally uniform technical…
Review of the Traffic Speed Deflectograph: Final Project Report
This project was established to enable ARRB and Austroads member authorities to work with the RTA to develop an independent national perspective on the applicability of the TSD to Australian conditions and practices. As the TSD is a newly developed…