Publications

The Austroads Guide to the Structural Design of Road Pavements: Pavement Design (now the Guide to Pavement Technology: Part 2 – Pavement Structural Design) has been used throughout Australia for over 20 years. Progressive development of the Guide is…

Part 4I: Earthworks Materials provides advice on the general requirements for earthworks materials and the characteristics of material types used in a range of specific applications. The advice has been generally developed from the approaches…

A road trial was established at Gisborne on the Calder Highway. The aim of the trial was to review the performance of sprayed seals constructed from a number of binder types. Class 170 is typically used in Victoria for sprayed seals and a section…

To improve the understanding of the nature of dynamic wheel loads and associated pavement damage, Austroads commissioned ARRB Group to research heavy vehicle dynamic wheel loads through the development and implementation of a measurement system as a…

Austroads commissioned ARRB to consider the current costing procedures used in determining the relative cost share of safety in project evaluation. Australia currently uses a human capital approach to the valuation of crash costs, while many other…

Little data is available to allow trends in bitumen properties to be determined or to compare the properties of bitumens used in different jurisdictions. Such information will become important as more imported, non-traditional bitumens are used in…

Freight vehicles are becoming more productive in order to meet these demands. All of these changes have impacts on the amount of travel and the loads carried by trucks on roads. This in turn leads to a range of environmental, safety, cost and…

The aim of this project was to establish the effectiveness of key Local Area Traffic Management (LATM) treatment types in reducing traffic speeds and in reducing the risk of crashes on local roads in Australia. A review of recent literature (post-…

The economic and functional impacts of PBS PVLS were quantified at network level using a life cycle costing approach. The assessment involved comparative analysis of the changes in agency and user costs associated with a number of scenarios with a…

The composition of the Australian heavy vehicle fleet has changed over time and no doubt will continue to change in response to pressures to achieve maximum economic benefits. Considering the predicted doubling in the road freight task by 2020, the…