Publications

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.…

This document introduces the Austroads Guide to Asset management, the aim of which is to offer guidance on how to best manage physical road infrastructure. The guide covers various aspects of asset management including how to determine and plan to…

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…

Guide to Asset ManagementPart 8 provides a comprehensive guidance for asset managers in the road industry. Part 8 provides guidance on how to undertake an asset valuation to assist the asset manager with long-term asset and financial management…

Guide to Asset Management Part 4 gives practitioners guidance for decision making with respect to good practice asset management at a network levelfor program development and implementation. Program development involves identifying asset…

Guide to Asset Management Part 3: Asset Strategies provides guidance on the frameworks and principles of asset strategies. Asset strategies articulate the proposed management of the capacity, condition and use of road system assets to achieve the…

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 document introduces the Austroads Guide to Asset Management, the aim of which is to offer guidance on how to best manage physical road infrastructure. The Guide covers various aspects of asset management including how to determine and plan to…