Publications

In 2006, BIS Shrapnel prepared a report for Austroads Incorporated which provided a detailed outlook for road construction and maintenance activity and its implications for workforce capability for member authorities. The report, titled Australia…

Seven government regulatory areas, which operate under legislation with some features in common with chain of responsibility legislation, were reviewed to identify work undertaken to define workforce roles, competencies and/or capabilities and the…

This project achieved the objective of consolidating the available research on the impacts of lower speed limits on network operations. It extended this knowledge to bridge an identified knowledge gap regarding urban arterial roads by modelling the…

The evaluation of road network operation schemes often requires the use of modelling to forecast the performance of proposals. There is a variety of modelling techniques available, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. Certain modelling…

Future skilled labour supply in Australia and New Zealand is not likely to be sufficient in meeting forecast demand in the roads sector, based on forecast construction, maintenance and road management activity, and taking into account labour lost…

The objective of this study was to identify performance information that are understood and would be used by all road users to make informed road transport decisions and that would assist road managers' in decision making in relation to the…