Publications

The Austroads Improving Traffic Incident Management project involves a review of traffic incident management in major urban regions across Australia and New Zealand. This report provides a brief overview of all aspects of traffic incident management,…

This report reviewed current traffic incident management practices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, to identify successful practices and challenges or gaps in current practices that could lead to improvements in the management of…

This report investigates the appropriateness of microsimulation modelling for the planning, operation and training of incident management in a road network. The methodology for this study includes a literature review and a modelling case study of…

It could be argued that literature on traffic incident management seemed to fall into two categories

This report comprises Task 3 of Austroads Project NS1017, ‘Improving Traffic Incident Management’. Task 3 is to contribute to the development of an evaluation framework to assess priorities for new alternatives in traffic incident management (TIM).…

This report considers the issues and possibilities of a data framework, incorporating road use data and network performance data, that could apply for all road authorities and provides guidance on a way forward, taking into account the current…

The report considers the issues of pricing, partnerships and accessibility in relation to road use data, traffic and network performance data. The aim of this report is to provide information on industry practices and inform the discussion on…

This report addresses the issue of calculating ESA-km in the road maintenance funding formula of AusLink This study recommends the use of an average ESA per heavy vehicle class in the funding formula This requires each jurisdiction to prepare from…

This document reports the results of an Austroads scoping study to formulate an approach to improve the collection, transformation and sharing freight data between jurisdictions, agencies and companies. The study is designed to inform development of…

A general literature survey and a user survey was conducted to obtain information on existing data aggregation methods and their status in Australia and New Zealand. The responses to the survey indicated that all agencies use or are close to…