Publications

This publication reviews current methodologies for estimating vehicle operating costs (VOC). Recent Austroads work (TP1349) highlighted the need to improve the VOC-road roughness relationship. This report achieves this by conducting a literature…

The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the Pavement Maintenance database creation, including documenting the cleaning and filtering of the results. The analysis was performed on SA, VIC, NSW and QLD datasets to identify…

This report provides a review of research and developments in skid resistance measurement methods. The objective is to provide up-to-date information on the major issues (e.g. variability) involved in skid resistance measurement.

This report…

After an introduction to ITS and the wireless communication requirements for the different ITS applications, the report summarises the overseas radiocommunications regulatory arrangements supporting 5.9 ITS and describes the technical and system…

The aims of this project are to provide decision-makers with broad advice to assist them in their policy decision-making on cooperative ITS by identifying and examining the main policy issues of cross-jurisdictional scope involved with the…

The National Transport Commission (NTC) and Austroads are developing Performance Based Standards (PBS) which will augment prescriptive regulations for heavy vehicle mass, dimensions and configuration.

Current skid resistance monitoring programs and investigatory limits used in Australia were based on systems developed in the UK where the climate, traffic intensity and network configuration are very different. These do not necessarily suit…

For years, improvements in driver behaviour, vehicle safety and road infrastructure have made the road network much safer. As roads become safer, many economic benefits are achieved for society, both direct and indirect. In the past, the primary…

There is a need to develop models to predict the horizontal forces applied by all combination vehicles with axle masses above the current allowances to assist in the prediction of the resulting pavement surface wear.

The impact of heavy vehicles on…

The impact of heavy vehicles on pavement surfacings needs to be quantified over typical surfacing lifecycles. Failure modes of surfacings are often horizontal shear-stress induced rather than vertical load