Austroads: Transport Research and Trends
Government
Physical road infrastructure such as pavement markings and signals may have an important role to play to support the uptake of automated vehicles (AVs). Austroads has recently completed a project to provide road agencies with clear advice on investing in physical infrastructure to support the operation of AVs.
This webinar, presented by Andrew Somers, Simon Xue and Elnaz Irannezhad, provides a detailed overview of the advice that addresses which infrastructure types should be prioritised for investment, as well as the timing and scale for that investment.
The advice has been developed against a backdrop of significant uncertainty around the future of AVs. These uncertainties include the year high-level AVs will become market-ready and the level of reliance of future AVs on physical infrastructures. To inform the development of the advice, the project first undertook an uptake forecast, an infrastructure assessment and economic analysis.
Having accounted for the various uncertainties of future AVs, the project has found the greatest return can be achieved by investments that will:
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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