Publications

This report investigates policy options for reducing the harmful effects of the oldest trucks operating on Australian and New Zealand roads. Aged trucks impose a financial burden on the community through their effects on human health and the…

This report examines the benefits of using end-to-end supply chain visibility technologies and considers issues relating to leadership and practical adoption of the technology.

The number of light commercial vehicles in Australia has increased at a faster rate than both population and state economic growth. This report examines the contribution of light commercial vehicles and light rigid trucks to the urban supply chain.…

This report describes the perceived impact of heavy freight vehicles using major freight routes on people living or working close to such routes. The literature obtained, and the experience of relevant stakeholders, suggested that noise and…

It is predicted that the Australian road freight task will more than double between 2000 and 2020. The Australian heavy vehicle industry estimates that the increased road freight task will result in the addition of approximately 50,000 trucks to the…

Selection of maintenance techniques is always a balance between the administering authority costs and social and environmental costs and outcomes. This project provides practical information and a methodology (including a worked example) for…

The Austroads project T+E.E.531 was undertaken to determine to the state of the art in regional and local air quality modelling within Australia as applied to road transport projects and to provide recommendations for the way forward to address…

Queensland Transport, on behalf of Austroads, commissioned PricewaterhouseCoopers in association with Macarthur Agribusiness and Hughes Consulting Services to conduct a study of the transport / logistics chain for cotton industry inputs and outputs,…

This report includes a review of recent freight transport case studies including a number involving intermodal operations, and the identification of broader trends and conclusions on freight operations that can be inferred from case studies.…

The principle objective of air quality impact assessment is to give the community an acceptable assessment of the air quality changes brought about through a significant road project. The initial in-house scoping of a significant road project,…