Publications

Many level crossings have been removed in Victoria since 2016 to improve safety for road users and pedestrians. Typically, they are single span or two span bridges over existing rail tracks and without batter in front of abutment to allow rail…

The paper presents a whole life cycle analysis of bridges and civil structures with due consideration of environment and economic aspects. The study is presented considering variables of constituent materials components so as to reduce the…

The Rail Integration and Systems (RIS) Alliance (comprising the Cross River Rail Delivery Authority, Queensland Rail, CPB contractors, UGL, Aecom and Jacobs) is part of Brisbaneís wider Cross River Rail (CRR) project to provide the rail systems…

For the design of rail viaducts in our congested cities and for rail viaducts having complex geometry with grade separation, the adoption of precast segmental construction techniques is becoming the almost universal approach. The transportation and…

The Bruce Highway Upgrade project is a $932m highway improvement scheme between Caloundra Road and Sunshine Motorway (CR2SM) on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. The project involves the widening of the existing highway to 6 lanes over a heavily…

This study relates to ongoing Austroads Project ABT6152, which seeks to verify compliance of a bridge barrier design against relevant Australian Standards that have been recently updated, and the American Association of Highway and Transportation…

Castlereagh Road is a key transport corridor in Western Sydney which was constrained by the existing rail overbridge at Penrith on the Sydney Trains Main Western Line adjacent to the Great Western Highway. A new bridge spanning 40m across the…

Inspections and load ratings commissioned by WaterNSW discovered that the Bridge over the Nepean River was in poor condition, concluding that the bridge was unusable and needed replacing. With the Avon Dam Main Access Road being a critical route for…

The Regency Road to Pym Street (R2P) project was a $354 million upgrade of a 1.8km section of Adelaideís North-South corridor. The project was delivered by the R2P Alliance consisting of the Department for Infrastructure and Transport (DIT),…

The Standards Management Framework provides a consistent, whole of life cycle approach to the way standards are developed, applied, managed, and governed in Transport for NSW (Transport). This framework aims to deliver the appropriate balance of…