Austroads: Transport Research and Trends
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Austroads latest webinars. Sharing transport research and trends.
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Coordinated Use of Austroads Guides to Support Safe and Efficient Road Networks
Design, traffic management and road safety are critical to achieving safe, efficient and context-responsive transport. Road design, traffic management and road safety practitioners often work towards the same outcomes, but they see things differently. This webinar helps these practitioners...
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Using and Understanding the Austroads Guide to Temporary Traffic Management for Traffic Controllers & Traffic Management Impleme
The Austroads Guide to Temporary Traffic Management (https://austroads.gov.au/publications/temporary-traffic-management/agttm-set) (AGTTM) provides nationally consistent guidance for the planning, design, and implementation of safe and efficient temporary traffic management across Australia and…
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Measuring Climate and Natural Hazard Resilience Performance of Transport Assets and Services
Transport networks across Australia and New Zealand are increasingly experiencing disruption and damage from extreme weather, natural hazards and long-term climate change. While the transport sector’s preparedness for and response to these impacts is improving, organisations continue to face...
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Identifying and Prioritising Climate Adaption Actions for Transport Assets
Climate change is placing increasing pressure on transport infrastructure across Australia and New Zealand, creating growing challenges for asset owners and network managers. This webinar introduced the findings of an Austroads report, Identifying and Prioritising Climate Adaption Actions for...
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Webinar: Standards Australia – Bitumen and related materials for roads (2024-26)
Bituminous binders that are used to construct roads are tested prior to use to ensure they will perform satisfactorily during a road’s lifecycle. Standards Australia Committee CH-025 ‘Bitumen and related products for roadmaking’ is responsible for the revision of 4 national specification…
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Managing Transport Management Centre Workplace Fatigue and Psychosocial Hazards
Transport Management Centres operate at the heart of our transport networks, coordinating responses to incidents, managing disruptions and supporting the safe and efficient movement of people and goods. Alongside these responsibilities come unique challenges, including shift work, high workloads,...
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Using and Understanding the Austroads Guide to Temporary Traffic Management for Road Infrastructure Managers
The Austroads Guide to Temporary Traffic Management (AGTTM) provides nationally consistent guidance for the planning, design, and implementation of safe and efficient temporary traffic management across Australia and New Zealand. Road Infrastructure Managers (RIMs) play a critical role in setting...
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Austroads Guide to Road Safety Part 7: Road Safety Management
The Austroads Guide to Road Safety Part 7: Road Safety Strategy and Management has been updated to Edition 3.0, published April 2026. AGRS Part 7 supports Australian and New Zealand jurisdictions to reach their national targets of zero road deaths and serious injuries by 2050 (and interim targets...
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Urban Freight Scoping Study
Urban freight plays a critical role in supporting cities and regional centres across Australia and New Zealand; however, despite its importance, urban freight is not consistently defined, measured and planned for across jurisdictions. This webinar presents an overview of the Urban Freight Scoping...
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Update to Austroads Guide to Road Design: Addressing Identified Gaps and Inconsistencies 2
This webinar presents the outcomes of Austroads research into intersection sight distance, identifying key gaps, inconsistencies, and opportunities for harmonisation across Australian and New Zealand road design guidance. Drawing on an extensive literature review, international best practice, and...
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Update to Guide to Road Safety Part 3: Safe Speed Management
This webinar provides an overview of the updated Austroads Guide to Road Safety Part 3: Safe Speed Management, with a focus on how the guidance can support safer speed limit setting in practice.Designed for road authorities, transport practitioners and others involved in speed management, the...
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Update to the Austroads Guide to Road Design: Addressing Identified Gaps and Inconsistences 1
This project delivered a range of important updates to the AGRD aimed at improving the clarity, consistency and contemporary relevance of road design guidance across Australia and New Zealand. It incorporated findings from the All User Groups and All Stereotypes and Safe System Median Treatments...
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Development of a New Austroads Fatigue Cracking Performance Test for Bitumen in Sprayed Seals
This webinar presents the outcomes of Austroads Project APT1975, which conducted research to develop a new Austroads test method for evaluating the fatigue cracking performance of aged bitumen. The test method was developed for road agencies to select durable binders for constructing sprayed seal...
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Using and Understanding the Austroads Guide to Temporary Traffic Management for Traffic Management Designers
The Austroads Guide to Temporary Traffic Management (AGTTM) provides nationally consistent guidance for the planning, design and implementation of safe and efficient temporary traffic management across Australia and New Zealand. Traffic Management Designers (TMDs) play a critical role in the...
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Implementation of Austroads Technical Specifications
The Austroads Technical Specifications provide a comprehensive framework for the construction of roads and bridges, defining key requirements for materials, treatments and infrastructure across the industry. They establish a consistent, best-practice approach to the design, specification and...
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Determining the Minimum Data Requirements to Progress Pedestrian Safety
This webinar presents the development and application of the Minimum Data Requirements for Pedestrian Safety Guideline and its supporting research. Participants will gain an overview of the challenges associated with inconsistent and incomplete pedestrian safety data, and why a nationally...
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Charting a Path to Eliminating Road Death and Serious Injury
This webinar presents the completed Austroads Charting a Path to Eliminating Road Death and Serious Injury project, including all three streams and newly released knowledge transfer resources. It introduces the Planning for Zero Framework (PfZF)—a practical, system-based approach to achieving...
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Updates to Austroads Guide to Temporary Traffic Management in Edition 1.2
The Austroads Guide to Temporary Traffic Management (AGTTM) provides nationally consistent guidance for the planning, design, and implementation of safe and efficient temporary traffic management across Australia and New Zealand. Recent revisions to AGTTM Parts 1–7, 9 and 10 (Edition 1.2) focus…
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Use Cases For Fibre Optics Technology
This webinar presented the outcomes of Austroads Project NEG6439, which examined how fibre optic sensing technologies can be applied to support improved road agency services and functions. While fibre optic networks are widely deployed across Australian and New Zealand transport agencies for...
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Investigating New Performance Testing of Unbound Granular Materials
Unbound granular materials play a crucial role in providing cost-effective road transport infrastructure across Australia and New Zealand. Compared to the thick asphalt and concrete pavements common in urban centres, thin bituminous surfaced unbound granular pavements offer a more economical...
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Enabling Accessible Electric Vehicle Charging
This webinar highlights key themes from the Enabling Accessible EV Charging guidelines, which provide guidance on improving the usability of EV charging infrastructure for people with disability. The session touches on selected aspects of the EV charging experience, including site layout…
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Austroads Guide to Pavement Technology Part 4K: Selection and Design of Sprayed Seals
This webinar presents the outcomes from a series of workshops with industry and users aimed at identifying future research needs and required changes to the Austroads Guide to Pavement Technology Part 4K: Selection and Design of Sprayed Seals. The aim of this projects was to continue refining the...
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Design Principles for Adapting Roads and Infrastructure for Emerging Mobility Technologies
As automated, connected and electric vehicle technologies continue to develop, road agencies across Australia and New Zealand need to prepare infrastructure for new operating conditions. Technologies such as Automated Vehicles (AVs), Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs), Electric Vehicles…
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Implementation of the National Driver Distraction Roadmap: Incorporating Human Factors in Transport Systems
Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) is the discipline that focuses on understanding and optimising interactions between humans and system components to enhance performance, safety, health and wellbeing. Human Factors Integration (HFI) is the process by which HFE knowledge, principles and methods…
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Keeping People Safe When Walking Stream 2 – Economic Assessment of Safer Speeds
This webinar provided an overview of the Austroads’ report, Keeping People Safe When Walking – Stream 2: Economic Assessment of Safer Speeds, completed as part of the Keeping People Safe When Walking program. The assessment applies a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) approach, which estimates and...
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Travel to School Guidelines
This webinar introduces the Travel to School Guideline, developed to support the planning and delivery of safe, active travel for students. The guideline promotes integrated, evidence-based approaches that prioritise children’s mobility, health, and safety within transport and land-use planning.…
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Carbon Reduction and the Use of Low-Carbon Concrete
Concrete is the most widely used material in transport infrastructure, and one of the largest sources of embodied carbon in road and rail projects. Because these emissions are locked in at the point of construction, reducing emissions from concrete represents one of the most immediate and...
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Environment and Sustainability Initiatives Stocktake 2025-27: Year 1
The Austroads 2025 Environment and Sustainability Initiatives Stocktake examines how member agencies are developing and embedding sustainable practices across their organisations. The Stocktake included reviews of environment and sustainability strategies, policies, and practices related to...
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Incident Response for Low and Zero Emission Vehicles
As electric vehicle (EV) uptake increases across Australia and New Zealand, there are new risks and operational impacts of EV incidents, and amended incident response practices are needed. This webinar presents the Austroads framework from the project NEG6523 on EV incident response. Watch to…
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Designing Roads for Large Freight Vehicles
Road agencies on behalf of governments in Australia and New Zealand are increasingly supporting the use of Large Freight Vehicles (LFVs) to deliver the growing freight task more productively, sustainably and safely. The Austroads project Design for Large Freight Vehicles (NEF6394) aims to develop...
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Fatigue Performance Evaluation and Design of Thin Asphalt Surfaced Granular Pavement
A recent Austroads research project has examined opportunities to improve the design guidelines for thin asphalt–surfaced unbound granular pavements, with a focus on their susceptibility to asphalt fatigue distress. This webinar presents the key outcomes of the project, including insights drawn...
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The Importance of Connection in Road Safety and Singing our Success from the Rooftops
Road safety is a team sport – a marathon, not a sprint. The greatest gains occur when many elements synthesise and successes are shared. This webinar draws on experience across more than 140 countries, working alongside partners from every road safety ‘walk of life’ – including governments,...
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Austroads’ Strategic Review of Pedestrian Planning Guidance
Discover the latest findings from the Austroads Review of Pedestrian Planning Guidance. Join moderator Mary Haverland (Avandra) and presenters Tim Judd (PJA) and Prue Oswin (Sidelines Traffic) as they share practical strategies for safer, more inclusive pedestrian infrastructure. Learn about a...
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Review of Speed Management Evidence and Guidance
Speed is a significant contributor to road trauma, influencing both the likelihood of a crash, and also the severity of crash outcomes, regardless of the cause. Austroads is updating the Guide to Road Safety Part 3: Safe Speeds (AGRS Part 3) with the latest evidence and best practice in speed...
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Guidance on Flood Recovery, Assessment and Risk Management for Bridges
This project involved the development of a guideline for bridge owners on managing the risk of bridge flooding, scour and resilience due to floods and an update to the Austroads Guide to Bridge Technology Part 8: Hydraulic Design of Waterway Structures (AGBT08) . The guideline provides a…
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Research Climate Change and Natural Hazards Resilience Needs and Guidance Approaches
Extreme weather events including torrential rain, flooding, landslides, heat waves and bushfires, as well as longer term changes such as increasing temperatures and sea level rise, take a dramatic toll on our transport infrastructure and the functioning of our road infrastructure networks. This...
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Update to the Guide to Pavement Technology Part 2: Pavement Structural Design
Austroads Guide to Pavement Technology Part 2: Pavement Structural Design is the primary reference for designing new sealed road pavements in Australia and New Zealand and has recently been updated. Since its last major update in 2017, Austroads has completed several research projects. The latest...
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An Evaluation of Methods for Estimating Remaining Asphalt Fatigue Life
This Austroads project has investigated methods for engineers to design more efficient and cost-effective road rehabilitation treatments by estimating the remaining fatigue life of existing asphalt. Current design practice assumes existing asphalt layers have no remaining life, even when…
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Update to the Guide to Pavement Technology Parts 1, 3 and 4
The Austroads Guide to Pavement Technology provides informative guidance on different pavement types and the optimal conditions they are suited to throughout Australia and New Zealand. In addition, the Guide provides in-depth analysis and technical advice on the construction, maintenance, and...
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Updates to the Guide to Pavement Technology Part 4B: Asphalt
The Austroads Guide to Pavement Technology Part 4B: Asphalt provides comprehensive guidance for the selection of constituent materials, mix design, testing, manufacture and placement of commonly used asphalt mix types in Australia and New Zealand. The Guide was first published by Austroads in…
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CWANZ National Walking and Cycling Participation Survey 2025
How are Australians walking and cycling in 2025? The National Walking and Cycling Participation Survey is Australia’s most comprehensive source of data on how people move through their communities. Conducted every two years since 2011 and commissioned by Cycling and Walking Australia and New...
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Managing the Unexpected: A Framework for TMC Response to ITS Outages
As transport systems grow more complex and interconnected, the ability to manage both planned and unplanned Intelligent Transport System (ITS) outages is essential to keeping people and goods moving safely. This webinar presents findings from an Austroads project focused on strengthening the...
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Bridge Assessment Guideline: Heavy Vehicles
Austroads' Bridge Assessment Guideline: Heavy Vehicles emphasises risk-informed decision-making for the asset management of road bridges and the management of heavy vehicle access. The emphasis on decision-making, rather than focussing only on the calculation of rating factors or assessment…
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2025 Winners of the Austroads Bridge Awards: Part 1
The Austroads Bridge Awards celebrate outstanding achievement in bridge design, management and delivery across Australia and New Zealand. Recognising innovation, technical excellence and collaboration, the Awards highlight projects that address complex engineering challenges while contributing to...
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Austroads Cycling and Micromobility Planning Tool
This practical webinar unpacks the new cycling and micromobility planning tools from Austroads' recent report ‘Improving Austroads Guidance for Cycling and Micromobility Planning’ (AP-R724-25). This session is designed for transport practitioners looking to apply best practice principles in...
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Sustainability Review of Austroads Technical Specifications and Test Methods
Governments around the world have set sustainability targets in areas such as greenhouse gas emissions , climate resilience and the circular economy. Meeting these sustainability targets will challenge Austroads member agencies and the infrastructure sector to identify and adopt new and changed...
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Austroads' Review of Movement and Place Guidance
Movement and Place is a cross-cutting planning principle that that recognises streets and roads as both transport corridors and public spaces; supporting the flow of people and goods while also shaping the activity, built form and identity of places. This webinar introduces the findings of the...
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Driving Safety for Two: Study on Correct Seatbelt Use During Pregnancy
In this webinar, Sjaan Koppel, winner of the Austroads-sponsored Women in Road Safety Award 2024, presents findings from an Australian study on the importance of correct seatbelt use during pregnancy for maternal and fetal safety in car crashes. Sjaan discusses practical strategies to improve...
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Updating the Standardised Bridge Barrier Design Guidelines
Inconsistency in the design of traffic barriers for bridges has been identified as a major issue in current practice throughout Australia and New Zealand. The need for standardised solutions has been recognised by road jurisdictions, consultants, and contractors. Key concerns include the...
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Road Manager Operations Capability Framework
The transport sector, particularly in road network operations and management, is experiencing a period of significant and rapid change globally. This disruption is directly affecting how people and industry access, navigate and use transport and road networks. Expectations around transport…
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