Publications

The main structural components of the railway bridge at Bankstown, installed in January 2011, are two 18m steel welded arch trusses with an overall height of 3.5m. Each truss comprises fabricated box sections for the chords and I sections for the…

The existing rail track support on the Sydney Harbour Bridge consists of timber transoms and deck supported on steel stringers and cross-girders of the Bridge. The deck area of the Bridge is solid except in the rail corridor. Not having a solid deck…

The East Coast Main Line (ECML) is one of the busiest and most successful railway lines in the United Kingdom and it is challenged with improving efficiency for passenger and freight services to meet future demands for low carbon transportation. A…

This paper provides a high level overview of the Kingsgrove to Revesby Quadruplication Project. This project is being delivered by Transport Construction Authority (TCA) in an alliance with Leighton Contractors, AECOM (formerly Maunsell Australia),…

This project aims to review current technologies and techniques for automatic freeway incident detection (AFID) and to provide guidance on the deployment of AFID applications, focusing on the operational aspects of incident detection. The focus is…

The Austroads Improving Traffic Incident Management project involves a review of traffic incident management in major urban regions across Australia and New Zealand. This report provides a brief overview of all aspects of traffic incident management,…

This report reviewed current traffic incident management practices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, to identify successful practices and challenges or gaps in current practices that could lead to improvements in the management of…

This report investigates the appropriateness of microsimulation modelling for the planning, operation and training of incident management in a road network. The methodology for this study includes a literature review and a modelling case study of…

It could be argued that literature on traffic incident management seemed to fall into two categories

This report comprises Task 3 of Austroads Project NS1017, ‘Improving Traffic Incident Management’. Task 3 is to contribute to the development of an evaluation framework to assess priorities for new alternatives in traffic incident management (TIM).…