Highlights of the 2006-07 Annual Report

Publications website
Austroads' publications website continues to be effective and successful in promoting Austroads publications. Statistics show the number of PDF downloads of all Austroads publications has continued to increase. An average of 2,250 PDF downloads were recorded each month in 2006-07.

Guides
Austroads is producing a comprehensive library of guides which cover the design, construction, maintenance and operation of the road network for use by road authorities in Australia and New Zealand. Guides are intended to be a reference for road authorities, and to promote national consistency and harmonisation. They represent an agreed approach to the work road authorities undertake in relation to the road network. Austroads member organisations have agreed to adopt the guides as the basis of their operation. A further six parts of various guides were published during the year, bringing the total number of completed parts to 23.

Technical research
2006-07 was the third year of the Austroads/ARRB technical research agreement, which provides for an ongoing research program in the four key areas of:

• bituminous surfacings
• pavement technology
• asset management
• road safety engineering.

The agreement with ARRB was established to develop and sustain a national capability for technical research and knowledge in each of the key areas, to be available to meet the future requirements of the Australasian road industry.

Projects completed
There were a total of 126 projects in the 2006-07 work program. A number of these are scheduled to run over three years. Thirty one projects were completed during 2006-07.

Young professionals study tour
A young professional's study tour visited North America in September 2006 to study current practice in the field of asset management. The study tour visited four Canadian provinces, Washington and Maryland in the USA. Seven Austroads member organisations participated in the study tour. A presentation on the tour findings was made to the Austroads Council and a comprehensive report prepared.

Annual Reports

2006-07

2005-06

2004-05

2003-04

2002-03

2001-02