Austroads: Transport Research and Trends
Government
For decades, Austroads Guide to Road Design (AGRD) has served as a critical resource for practitioners involved in road planning, design and engineering. Austroads recently completed a strategic review of road design guidance, identifying strategies to sustainably maintain the AGRD as the pre-eminent road design guide in Australia and New Zealand.
Through an online survey and face-to-face interviews, the project team identified opinions and possible strategic actions from users of the AGRD, stakeholders in road design practice and international experts. This webinar describes what the review learned, and the nature of actions proposed to realise identified opportunities.
Webinar presenters, Andrew Somers and Dr Rod Troutbeck, report on the findings of the engagement with the AGRD’s users and non-users. Provided feedback identified that road design must be context-sensitive and Austroads’ road design guidance needs to cover the range of contexts and the application of judgement is a critical part of context-sensitive designs and solutions.
The presenters also explore how changes to structure and content might allow the AGRD to:
Road Cross-Section Design for Road Stereotypes and a Safe System
Pedestrian Planning and Design for Activity Centres
Pedestrian Planning and Design at Intersections
Midblock Crossings for Pedestrians
Transitions Between Steel Beam and Concrete Barriers
Road Space Allocation for Pedestrians
Opportunities to Build Capacity in Traffic Management
Development of Design Procedures for Lightly Bound Cemented Materials in Flexible Pavements
Improved Guidance on Interrupted Traffic Flow Theory
Best-Practice Approaches to Road Freight and Communities
Outcomes from the Long-Term Monitoring of Austroads Sprayed Seal Trials
Implications of Pavement Markings for Machine Vision
A Holistic Investment Prioritisation Framework for Road Assets
Updated Roadside Design Guidance: Crash Risk Evaluation Procedure Background
Optimising Project Delivery Performance
Updated Roadside Design Guidance: Crash Risk Evaluation
Framework and Tools for Road Freight Access Decisions
Draft National Prequalification Scheme for Temporary Traffic Management
Draft National Training Framework for Temporary Traffic Management
Classifying, Measuring and Valuing the Benefits of Place on the Transport System
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