Publications

Economic risk analysis is useful because it can develop an awareness of the impact of risk and uncertainty on decision making processes and help with the formulation of appropriate policies and strategies to minimise risk. This report describes a…

Austroads commissioned ARRB Transport Research in 1998 to undertake an investigation into the economic evaluation of kerb-lane space. The resulting model, ParkLane v1.0, was the first significant attempt at developing a tool to understand on-road…

This document contains two reports which describe the development of improved models for predicting the effect of proposals for investment in road infrastructure on the numbers, severity and costs of road crashes in Australia. The two reports cover…

The practice of full or part sealing shoulders on two-lane rural roads was originally introduced to reduce seal edge and shoulder maintenance costs, and to shift the seasonal edge moisture zone away from the outer wheel path. The practice has since…

This project evaluation compendium stemmed from a project with the primary aim to develop a guide comprising information, processes, ideas and tools related to road project and program evaluation practice suitable for Australian applications. This…

A need exists in Australia and New Zealand, as it does in other countries, for a means to evaluate and prioritise candidate transport infrastructure investments, so as to ensure funds flow to the most worthwhile projects. Transport agencies around…