Publications

These guidelines set out criteria that must be addressed in any application for an automated vehicle trial. Because trials will differ in technology, scale and risk, some criteria may not be relevant to some trials. Trialling organisations must set…

Guide to Road Design Part 6: Roadside Design, Safety and Barriers provides guidance on roadside design and in particular guidance on evaluating the risk of a roadside and the selection and use of road safety barrier systems. Roadsides have to…

Guide to Road Design Part 3: Geometric Design provides road designers and other practitioners with information about the geometric design of road alignments.

This Austroads Technical Specification ATS 3110 sets out the requirements for the supply of polymer modified binders (PMBs) and crumb rubber modified binders for use in both sprayed sealing and asphalt applications. The technical specification can…

Austroads Technical Specification ATS 5341 sets out the requirements for the repair of cracks in concrete, including supply and quality of materials, surface preparation, application, relevant testing and acceptance criteria. The technical…

Road trauma in rural and remote areas of Australia is a major national road safety problem. 

Guide to Asset Management Part 5E contains guidelines for and background notes on network level measurement and reporting of pavement cracking data for road network management purposes in Australia and New Zealand. The guidelines discuss the types…

Guide to Asset Management Part 5C contains guidelines for, and background notes on, measurement and reporting of rutting or transverse profiles for road network management purposes in Australia and New Zealand. The guidelines define rutting as a…

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.…