Publications

The Guide to Road Design Part 5: Drainage – General and Hydrology Considerations provides road designers and other practitioners with guidance on the design of drainage systems.

The Guide to Road Design Part 5A: Drainage &ndash

Guide to Bridge Technology Part 7 discusses the structural management of existing bridges in practical technical terms. It documents practices relevant to forward works programming, inspection, recording, reporting, evaluation of bridge condition…

Guide to Bridge Technology Part 8 provides a guideline for issues related to the waterway design of bridges. It covers various topics such as design flood standards and estimation methods, general considerations in waterway design and design…

This document contains estimates of road user unit costs for use in Australia, calculated as at 30 June 2007. The unit costs are presented in a format suitable for use with most road project evaluation models, techniques, and software used by…

The document provides a guide to the use of bituminous materials in road-making applications. Bituminous materials include bitumen obtained from the refining of crude oil and products derived from bitumen through additional manufacturing processes…

Guide to Road Design Part 5: Drainage Design is concerned with road drainage design for all drainage infrastructure, except bridges which is covered in the Austroads Guide to Bridge Technology. Part 5 provides guidance on good design process and…

Part 2: Pavement Structural Design – provides advice for the structural design of sealed road pavements. The advice has been generally developed from the approaches followed in the Austroads member authorities. However, as it encompasses the wide…

The aim of the Guide to Traffic Management Part 2: Traffic Theory is to provide practitioners with the theoretical background necessary to appreciate the nature of traffic behaviour and to undertake analyses required in the development and…

This document gives guidance to project delivery practitioners on the use of contracts for the delivery of projects. It is primarily for those who are gaining experience in contract management, however it will also be a useful reference for more…