Publications

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Sprayed Sealing: Aggregate Precoating
This Pavement Work Tip provides a guide to precoating aggregates and use of adhesion agents in hot sprayed sealing work.
Sprayed Sealing: Rolling of Cover Aggregate
This Pavement Work Tip provides a guide to rolling and compacting cover aggregates used in sprayed sealing road works.
Lane Rental: Contract Options, Practices, Benefits and Disbenefits
A form of contract, lane rental was developed to facilitate major motorway rehabilitation contracts in the United Kingdom in the 1980s, and has since been used in the United States. Lane rental contracts are a performance-based contract where road…
Road Investment Profiles and Potential Environmental Consequences
The State of the Environment Report (DEST, 1996, p.3-50) states that road planning priorities with an "emphasis ... on providing high-capacity roads to fringe and coastal areas" has led to dispersed land use that is now under question. Certainly…
Polymer Modified Binder Sprayed Seal Trials
Two significant road trials have been initiated to better understand the performance defining properties of Polymer Modified Binders when used in sprayed sealing applications over cracked pavements. Treatments varied from manually applied crack…
Implications for the Road Transport Sector of Tax Reform
The Federal Government's tax reform package (A New Tax System - ANTS) involves however a range of changes in the taxation of goods and services, especially transport fuel, the nature of social security and the level of income tax paid by individuals.…