Publications

This webinar, presented on 29 November 2019, outlines how local road managers can use the Australasian Road Asset Data Standard and engage with collaboration activities, to provide access to new asset management and maintenance insights with minimal…

This webinar, presented on 4 July 2019, provides an overview of the 2018 edition of the Austroads Guide to Asset Management.

This webinar, presented on 14 March 2019, provides an update on the Austroads’ project to develop the data to support the Heavy Vehicle Road Reforms.

This webinar, presented on 7 March 2019, provides an overview of Austroads' long-term pavement performance study.

This webinar, presented on 31 January 2019, provides an overview of Austroads' study that proposes a ride quality index of roads for heavy vehicles, a heavy vehicle equivalent of the International Roughness Index (IRI) for cars.

The Data Standard for Road Management and Investment provides road agencies and their suppliers, in Australia and New Zealand, with a specification for the data that supports common operational activities. The Data Standard also provides road…

The Priority Harmonisation Subset (PHS) of the Data Standard was developed to promote the realisation of benefits from comparative road network performance reporting and data items considered to be a priority for effective asset and maintenance…

This report summarises the outputs and benefits of the long‑term pavement performance (LTPP) study which ran from 1994 to 2018 and was funded by Austroads. The study had four primary objectives: to enhance road asset management strategies by 

Very little is known about riding quality for trucks. Pavement roughness is widely accepted as a reliable low-cost measure of ride quality for occupants of passenger cars, and of road condition, and is a significant input to the estimation of road…

This report provides the results of two separate reviews into practices relating to low trafficked roads: namely, the use of recycled materials and the management of roadside vegetation. The use of recycled materials is becoming increasingly common…