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…

Urban road performance metrics, indicators and benchmarks describe how our road assets (and transport systems) are functioning and operating. Indicators in particular are useful to understand how well our road assets are performing within the…

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…

This report presents the definitions and calculations of five new network performance indicators. These indicators are measured on-line with the use of freeway and arterial traffic control systems. These systems provide 24-hour 7-day traffic data at…

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 purpose of these Guidelines is to assist road agencies and their contractors in developing a systems approach in the management of environmental issues. The guidelines are structured in four parts to allow the reader to readily access…

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…

Comparison of the efficiency and effectiveness of practices used by road agencies to deliver their services can contribute to the identification and implementation of national best practice in this regard. This report addresses road authority…

Current approaches to national road network planning generally focus on links and corridors in themselves and do not allow the assessment of each link as a component of the network as a whole. This document describes a study to demonstrate the…