Publications

Road users in regional and remote Australia are at a greater risk of road trauma than those living in major cities. Approximately one third of Australians live in regional or remote areas but two thirds of fatal crashes occur in these areas. The…

Information on injurious road crashes is required for prevention. National information on fatal cases has been available for many years, but information on serious non-fatal cases has been lacking. This webinar will take participants through the…

In this webinar, Chris Koniditsiotis, Lead Implementation Consultant and Patsy Thomas, National Temporary Traffic Management (TTM) Operations Manager provide an update on the implementation and operational commencement of the Austroads National…

This report, published in January 2022, provides a basis for future testing and standardisation of the symbols and road signage for low and zero emission vehicles in Australia and New Zealand, paving the way to adopt consistent symbols in the road…

Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW) QA Specification B80 'Concrete work for Bridge' (TfNSW B80)10 has seen continual improvement over the years. These improvements adopted recent industry trends and new technologies including self-compacting…

In attempts to reduce the CO2 footprint of the construction industry, technologies have been developed in the past for the replacement of Portland cement by other materials, such as supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), which have had the…

The Dynon Road Bridge over Moonee Ponds Creek is a 12-span, 61 metre long cast in-situ concrete flat-slab bridge constructed in 1941. This art-deco style bridge is heavily trafficked and an important link between Melbourneís western suburbs and the…

This paper will give a brief history of our concrete technology and concrete durability journey within TMR QLD over the last 20 years together with our present position and issues, and where we see some of our future challenges and development.…

The potential benefits of using structural health monitoring systems in measuring and recording bridge data have been established in many applications around the world, but the efficiency and effectiveness of such systems depends on how they are…

The Peka Peka to Ōtaki (PP2O) Expressway is a 12km section of the new Kapiti Expressway, north of Wellington, New Zealand. The project includes nine road bridges, two underpasses, five pedestrian bridges and several large culverts. Innovative…