Publications

This webinar, presented by Andrew Somers and John Wall on 6 August 2020, outlines the results of Austroads&rsquo

This webinar, presented on 13 May, identifies the skills, knowledge and behaviours drivers need, now and in the future, to safely operate cars and trucks equipped with higher levels of automation. Building on lessons learned from the aviation sector,…

This report documents the outcomes of research designed to: examine what role, if any, registration and licensing authorities should undertake to ensure that licence applicants are competent in the use of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS

This webinar, presented on 17 February 2020, provides an overview of the life cycle management of local sealed and unsealed  roads. It highlights the Austroads Guides and the AUS-SPEC national local government specification system which assist local…

This report has developed a new index, the Heavy Vehicle Roughness Band Index (HVRBI), as a measure of ride quality for heavy vehicles. The HVRBI is intended for use by road asset managers as a trigger to initiate pavement intervention works…

This study obtained an indication of the proportion of Australian commercially manufactured polymer modified binders (PMBs) liable to segregate, identifed suitable tests to measure segregation propensity and proposes measures to help prevent or…

This report is an investigation on the development of the performance relationships used in the 2002 AASHTO Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG). The primary objective of this investigation was to see if these relationships could be…

This report explores the dynamic forces that heavy vehicles apply to road pavements and the effects that these forces have on pavement performance. The research focussed on identification of accurate and cost effective means to quantify dynamic…

This report is a scoping document aimed at establishing how road deterioration (RD) models can be developed on a probabilistic basis. Deterministic RD models provide an average estimate to a future condition which is not necessarily likely to be…

Austroads Project AT1064 Long Term Performance Monitoring to Develop Consistent Performance Models has been running since 1994-95. A review of the analysis of US long term pavement performance (US LTPP) data used to validate the performance…