Publications

For decades, Austroads Guide to Road Design (AGRD) has served as a critical resource for practitioners involved in road planning, design and engineering. Austroads recently completed a strategic review of road design guidance, identifying strategies…

This webinar explores how to use backcasting, a vision-based planning approach, to determine what the metrics of a safe road system should look like in order to achieve zero road trauma and how the current road system is tracking towards this…

This report details road and transport safety interventions that can reduce fatal and serious injury crashes in regional and remote areas. It contains the factsheets, prioritisation framework, and evaluation framework from the report Practical…

Supplements have provided important additional guidance to the Austroads Guide to Road Design (Guide). But there are questions about their use. Are these supplements needed? What should they contain? Should the information in the agency supplements…

For over a decade, the National Telematics Framework has been setting a benchmark as an effective regulatory framework for optimised vehicle movements, making Australia a world-leader in intelligent access management. The National Telematics…

This report details road and transport safety interventions that can reduce fatal and serious injury crashes in regional and remote areas. A literature review expands on the Austroads National View on Regional and Remote Road Safety report by…

Between December 2023 and September 2024, Telstra, Optus and Vodafone will close their 3G networks to make room for new, faster services. The 3G network shutdown will affect vital equipment and services across the road transport sector. Devices that…

Transport for NSW (TfNSW) is transitioning from Interim On-Board Mass (OBM) management to Smart OBM. All Performance Based Standards (PBS) vehicle operators with mass monitoring as a condition of access will need to transition to the more advanced…

This report is one of the two reports that document the findings of a research project undertaken to update the Austroads Guide to Road Design (AGRD). The project reviewed the jurisdictional practices of developing supplements to the AGRD to…

This report is one of the two reports that document the findings of a research project undertaken to update the Austroads Guide to Road Design (AGRD). The project reviewed the jurisdictional practices of developing supplements to the AGRD to…