Publications

Guide to Traffic Management Part 13: Road Environment Safety 

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…

Guide to Pavement Technology Part 3 addresses the selection of the most appropriate pavement surfacing. The Guide identifies the significant factors that need to be considered in the selection of the most appropriate surfacing, their inter-…

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…

This Guide has been prepared as part of the Austroads Guide to Pavement Technology to provide an introduction to the nature of asphalt as a material and its application in road pavements. Further publications in this Guide provide supporting detail…

This document is Part 2 of the Austroads Guide to Road Safety. It is intended as a guide to the process of strategy development and evaluation. It outlines options for strategy development and the value of a ‘vision’ in driving strategy development.…

This document is an overview of Austroads road safety publications, including those still in the preparation or planning stage. It commences with a discussion of road crash costs and road authorities’ duty of care to provide safe travel. The…

This technical note provides an overview of the use of stone mastic asphalt in Australia.

Controlling the moisture content of pavements during construction reduces the risk of damage to the pavement. This technical note provides advice related to specifying, constructing and testing pavements.

This technical note provides guidance on the use of ultra thin asphalt surfacings which are typically placed with a minimum thickness of around 12-15 mm, or about half the thickness of similar sized conventional asphalt wearing course mixes.