Austroads Guides and Information

Austroads Guides- An Overview

Purpose

Austroads has produced a suite of guides which cover the design, construction, maintenance and operation of the road network. There are ten guides consisting of:

• Asset Management
• Bridge Technology
• Pavement Technology
• Project Delivery
• Project Evaluation
• Road Design
• Road Safety
• Road Transport Planning
• Traffic Management
• Road Tunnels.

The purpose of these guides is to promote consistency and harmonisation and be a reference for road agencies across Australia and New Zealand.

Development of Guides:

The ten guides contain 96 individual parts and sub parts. Their development required a substantial investment in time, research and knowledge.

Each guide provides key information, in a succinct form, for the topic area or process that it covers. A topic is only discussed in detail in one location in the ten guides and then referenced in other locations. These guides replace previous Austroads guide-type publications but in an updated form. Publications that have been replaced have been withdrawn from sale. Where appropriate earlier material has been built on and as such only the latest information is to be available.

Adoption by Road Agencies:

All road agencies in Australia and New Zealand have agreed to adopt the Austroads guides as their primary reference. This is a valuable step forward to creating a common approach -based on world's best practise principles, documented in the guides. All road agencies are currently transitioning to the guides.

Updating and Reviewing Guides:

In order to maintain the guides as up-to-date, consistent and contemporary, Austroads will continue to review and update them. Each guide will be reviewed as new research is conducted and published, otherwise they will each be reviewed every five years. Any reviews and updating of the guides will be communicated via our newsletter, RoadWatch and our website.

Mapping Old to New Guides:

As a consequence of the new guides being released there are a number of our older guides which are being superseded, particularly in the Guide to Traffic Engineering Practice series. To keep track of these changes and to know which parts/guides replace the previous guides.

Feedback:

Feedback on all our guides and publications can be directed here. If you have any specific questions about our guides please contact us via via austroads@austroads.com.au or call us on +61 2 9264 7088.

Each of the links below contain a presentation that details the development and content of each guide. These will give you an overview of what each particular guide contains and how they will assist you.

• Asset Management
• Bridge Technology
• Pavement Technology
• Road Design
• Road Safety
• Traffic Management

To view or purchase Austroads publications please visit the Austroads publications website.

The Austroads Guides and Cycling

The previous Austroads Guide to Traffic Engineering Practice Part 14 - Bicycles has now been integrated throughout the new Austroads series of guides.  The table below provides guideance on which austroads guides contain the cycling information:

If any further information is required contact the Australian Bicycle Council on abc@austroads.com.au .

Last Updated: 17 August 2010.