Publications

This report provides descriptions of processes for setting maintenance intervention criteria and allocating budgets. Due to the multi-objective nature of road asset management activities, the decision process including setting maintenance…

Road authorities in Australia and New Zealand have an established system of vehicle classification. The system is the Austroads classification system that was last updated in 1994. This system provides vehicle classification by axle configuration or…

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…

Unsealed roads are the largest single component of the Australian road network, in terms of lane kilometres. The purpose of this document is to record the results of an Austroads project on the management of unsealed roads The main activities in the…

The state of the art in using GIS to integrate crash data with other information sources, and resources and capabilities available for this purpose in Australia and New Zealand, were established through a literature review and a series of…

The aim of this Issues Paper is a further refinement and clarification of the ITS Workshop outcomes and so that the following is achieved: The identification of the extent and role of ITS applications and their potential impact of future road asset…

This report draws out principles of successful environmental management from case studies of various projects. The case studies have been selected to cover a wide range of phases of road planning, construction, maintenance and operation. It…

This report describes a benchmarking study of road asset management decision processes. The study was conducted in 1999, and involved 12 road agencies in 5 nations, with 8 in Australia, and 1 in each of France, New Zealand, Switzerland and the…

This document contains guidelines for integrating road network asset management into a road agency's overall business planning cycle. The guidelines are intended to assist large and small road agencies develop and implement stakeholder driven…

This report contains guidelines describing a typical community consultation process, and its application to the asset management task of defining suitable levels of service and target or intervention standards for configuration, condition, and…