Publications

Guide to Road Design Part 1 provides practitioners with a detailed description of the critical aspects of road design.

Road trauma in regional and remote areas of Australia and New Zealand are a major road safety problem. Drivers and riders in regional and remote areas are at an unacceptably greater risk of road deaths and injuries than those living in major cities.…

Guide to Road Design Part 2 provides a detailed description of the three critical aspects of road design: the design objectives that apply to a road design project

Guide to Road Design Part 2 provides a detailed description of the three critical aspects of road design: the design objectives that apply to a road design project

Guide to Road Design Part 1 provides an introduction to the road design process, defining its status, purpose and areas of application. It describes the functions and content of the 15 parts in the Guide to Road Design. The context of the road…

Guide to Road Design Part 6B: Roadside Environmentcontains information on the components of roadside areas that may need to be accommodated within a road reserve. These components include environmental aspects such as fauna management and noise…

Part 1 of the Guide to Road Designprovides an introduction to the guide, defining its status, purpose and areas of application and describing the functions and content of each of its nine parts. The context of the road design process within each of…

Part 1 of the Guide to Road Design provides an introduction to the guide, defining its status, purpose and areas of application and describing the functions and content of each of its nine parts. The context of the road design process within each of…

This document is an overview of Austroads Guide to Road Safety. It commences with a discussion of road crash costs and road authorities’ duty of care to provide safe travel. The advantages and disadvantages of different ways of measuring road safety…

Part 13 of the Austroads Guide to Traffic Management is concerned with Road Environment Safety. It details traffic management practices under the Safe System philosophy. The guide emphasises the need for the road system to provide an environment…