Publications

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…

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…

In this webinar, Chris Koniditsiotis, Lead Implementation Consultant and Patsy Thomas, National Temporary Traffic Management (TTM) Operations Manager provide an update on the implementation and operational commencement of the Austroads National…

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…

The webinar showcases the projects recognised with the Austroads Bridge Awards. The Austroads Bridge Awards acknowledge individuals and organisations that have delivered outstanding bridge structures and design across Australia and New Zealand. The…

This report, published in January 2022, provides a basis for future testing and standardisation of the symbols and road signage for low and zero emission vehicles in Australia and New Zealand, paving the way to adopt consistent symbols in the road…

A load rating was undertaken as part of the asset owners regular periodic load rating on a 139 m total length, 12-span bridge carrying a single ballasted rail track on curved horizontal and vertical alignment originally constructed in 1996. The…

In addition to providing the southern hemisphere's largest-diameter tunnel as an alternative major Yarra River crossing to ease congestion on the 50-year-old West Gate Bridge, the West Gate Tunnel Project is also one of Australia's largest bridge…

New Zealand has many historic and significant steel truss road and rail bridges, with the majority of these constructed between early 1900s to mid-1960s. Steel truss bridges are able to span long distances, and bridge members commonly include…