Publications

This report outlines a number of methods for estimating externalities and gives a brief description of the current position with development of estimates of road transport externalities, based on a review of recent local and international literature.…

In 1995 Austroads Strategy for Ecologically Sustainable Development indicated that progress needed to be regularly reviewed in so far as ESD was a journey rather than a destination. Subtitled Progress and Directions, this document represents a…

The National Strategy for Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) was released in 1992. Recognising the strategic importance of ESD to the transport sector, Austroads developed a Strategy for Ecologically Sustainable Development in 1995, which…

The State of the Environment Report (DEST, 1996, p.3-50) states that road planning priorities with an "emphasis ... on providing high-capacity roads to fringe and coastal areas" has led to dispersed land use that is now under question. Certainly…

Split into two sections, a summary and detailed scientific report, this report details a study into the environmental impact of the use of alternative bituminous binders in sprayed sealing work. An important goal of the work was to gain an…

The principle objective of air quality impact assessment is to give the community an acceptable assessment of the air quality changes brought about through a significant road project. The initial in-house scoping of a significant road project,…