Publications

This webinar, presented on 26 March 2019, provides an overview of Infrastructure Risk Rating - a simple road assessment methodology designed to assess road safety risk at a network level, primarily as an input to the speed limit setting process.

This manual sets out the steps for undertaking an IRR assessment. It is divided into four parts: identify supporting data sources

Inappropriate or excessive speed is a major road safety issue. Effective speed management is fundamental and critical to reducing speed-related road trauma. Speed limit setting is at the core of speed management. Speed limits need to be set at a…

AS 5100, the Australian Bridge Design Code, is currently under review. AS 5100.2, Design Loads, sets out the minimum design loads, forces and load effect for road, railway, pedestrian and bicycle bridges and other associated structures.The review of…

The Regional Rail Link is a $4.8 billion, joint Commonwealth and Victorian Government funded infrastructure project designed to remove major bottlenecks in Victoria’s rail network by separating regional and metropolitan trains as they travel from…

The Regional Rail Link (RRL) project is Victoria’s largest rail infrastructure project providing 47.5 km of new dual railway tracks for dedicated V/Line regional rail services between Southern Cross Station and West Werribee Junction via Sunshine…

The south-west of Melbourne has experienced huge residential development, and a corresponding increase in rail patronage. The Regional Rail Project effected the separation of Regional and Metropolitan lines between Southern Cross Station, and…

AS 5100, the Australian Bridge Design Code, is currently under review. AS 5100.1, Scope and General Principles, sets out the requirements for the design of new bridges, using limit states principles for bridges associated with roads, rail, tramways,…

As part of the ongoing upgrade of timber-piled bridges on the North Island Main Trunk, KiwiRail identified three bridges (BR 280, 281, 282) to be replaced in 2012. These bridges all cross streams of 16 m to 42 m in width and provide a ballast deck…

The North Coast Rail Line in Queensland between Bundaberg and Gladstone has three major crossings over the Burnett, Kolan and Boyne Rivers. The bridges were constructed in the 1890s using cast iron piers and through-girder spans. Queensland Rail…