Austroads: Transport Research and Trends
Government
Austroads has completed its update of Section 3: Inspection, Testing, Monitoring and Reporting of the Guide to Bridge Technology Part 7: Maintenance and Management of Existing Bridges.
The project involved taking a fresh look at the inspection process to provide a flexible framework from which users of the Guide can develop and improve their own inspection processes.
The project team undertook an assessment of Australian and New Zealand jurisdictions, as well as some international organisations. The assessment included reviewing the processes and practices and the uses of inspection data collected at each inspection level. This was followed up with a workshop with each individual jurisdiction.
Practices varied across the jurisdictions from basic to advanced levels in terms of programming, data collection, and inspection processes. Similar observations were also made of the international practices assessed. The current practices were also assessed against the existing documentation to quantify gaps within the existing documentation.
With the current range of complexities in systems, data requirements and processes, coupled with the intention of some jurisdictions to change existing practices, it was concluded that a flexible approach is needed within the revised inspection framework to enable varying jurisdictional needs to be accommodated. The fundamentals such as defining inspection types, components and component numbering are documented as a single approach, whilst for other sections, a risk-based framework will be adopted to allow flexibility, such as in assigning inspection timings.
Key updates to the Guide include:
The webinar will be presented by Andy Ng and Paul Cannons.
Strategic Review of Road Design Guidance
Safe Active Streets: An Overview of WA's Pilot Program
Feasibility of Using Anti-stripping Additives as an Alternative to Hydrated Lime
2023 National Walking and Cycling Participation Survey
Validation of Superpave™ Method of Asphalt Compaction for Australasia
Methodology for Comparing Dangerous Goods Risk in Road Tunnels to Those on Alternative Routes
Driving Data Potential: Exploring the Country's Road Network in the Digital Atlas of Australia
Optimising Project Delivery Performance (Accelerated Projects)
Guidelines for Incident Response Vehicles and Truck-Mounted Attenuators
Is Zero Road Trauma Possible?
Driver Licensing Directions
Changes to the National Heavy Vehicle Driver Competency Framework
Use of a Driving Simulator to Assess Driver Response to the NorthConnex Tunnel Design Features
Northern Territory Transition to Temporary Traffic Management National Training
Austroads Vehicle Classification Scheme – Measuring Active Transport
Austroads Vehicle Classification Scheme – Light Vehicles
Austroads Vehicle Classification Scheme – Heavy Vehicles
Physical Infrastructure to Support Connected and Automated Vehicles
Update to the Guide to Road Design – Detailed Review of Supplements
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