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Webinar: Is Zero Road Trauma Possible?
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…
Practical Approaches for Managing Regional Road Safety Priorities: Practitioner Resources
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…
Practical Approaches for Managing Regional Road Safety Priorities
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…
Road Transport Suicide Prevention
This report details research undertaken to investigate and understand the scope of suicides in road transport, to establish mechanisms to appropriately monitor over time and seek to reduce its impact. The report comprises four project streams…
High Workability Concrete - Verification of Properties and Performance Criteria
Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW) QA Specification B80 'Concrete work for Bridge' (TfNSW B80)10 has seen continual improvement over the years. These improvements adopted recent industry trends and new technologies including self-compacting…
Effects of increasing Limestone content of cement on concrete performance
In attempts to reduce the CO2 footprint of the construction industry, technologies have been developed in the past for the replacement of Portland cement by other materials, such as supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), which have had the…
Bridge Strengthening Design and Construction - Dynon Road Bridge over Moonee Ponds Creek, West Melbourne
The Dynon Road Bridge over Moonee Ponds Creek is a 12-span, 61 metre long cast in-situ concrete flat-slab bridge constructed in 1941. This art-deco style bridge is heavily trafficked and an important link between Melbourneís western suburbs and the…
Concrete Technology and Durability in TMR - Past, Present and Future
This paper will give a brief history of our concrete technology and concrete durability journey within TMR QLD over the last 20 years together with our present position and issues, and where we see some of our future challenges and development.…
'Smart' bridge components (expansion joints, bearings, seismic devices) for intelligent infrastructure
The potential benefits of using structural health monitoring systems in measuring and recording bridge data have been established in many applications around the world, but the efficiency and effectiveness of such systems depends on how they are…
Seismic Resilience, Sustainability, Accelerated Bridge Construction and Urban Design for the Peka Peka to Ōtaki Expressway Bridges
The Peka Peka to Ōtaki (PP2O) Expressway is a 12km section of the new Kapiti Expressway, north of Wellington, New Zealand. The project includes nine road bridges, two underpasses, five pedestrian bridges and several large culverts. Innovative…