Publications

Practitioners have raised concerns when designing for heavy vehicles with respect to the combination of design values for side and longitudinal friction demand as well as design criteria for horizontal curves with adverse superelevation. This report…

Road Authorities, practitioners and other stakeholders have identified minor editorial issues within the Austroads Guide to Road Design (GRD) Part 3 that result in possible ambiguity or inconsistency within the Guides to Road Design Series. A total…

Cycling is a sustainable means of urban travel. It has the potential to serve many short- and medium-distance trips &ndash

Austroads has recently completed a project to consolidate the previous Guide to Road Design Part 1: Introduction to Road Design, Part 2: Design Considerations and Part 8: Process and Documentation into a new Part 1: Objectives of Road Design. This…

Guide to Road Design Part 7: New and Emerging Treatments contains design-related knowledge, findings from research and practical experiences about new and emerging treatments.

Guide to Road Design Part 3: Geometric Design provides road designers and other practitioners with information about the geometric design of road alignments.

Guide to Road Design Part 6A: Paths for Walking and Cycling provides guidance for designers and other practitioners on the design of paths for safe and efficient walking and cycling, both within the road corridor and outside the road corridor. The…