Publications

Following extensive engagement with industry, representative specialist groups and transport agency stakeholders across Australia and New Zealand, Austroads has developed a guide to digital engineering. The purpose of the guide is to assist…

The Guide to Digital Engineering is designed to assist transport agencies in Australia and New Zealand to deliver and operate their assets more effectively by obtaining better value and consistency in the application of digital engineering. The…

Climate change is causing irreversible damage to communities, the economy and the environment, and it is imperative that strong and sustained action is taken to limit its future impacts. Extreme weather events are projected to become more frequent…

This report provides practical guidance and user cases for asset managers within the transport sector to embed consideration of climate resilience into asset management.

The Climate Change and Natural Hazard Risk Assessment Guidelines set out a framework for Australian and New Zealand transport agencies to consider when undertaking climate change and natural hazard risk assessments and developing adaptation plans.…

Austroads has updated their Lifeline Risk Indicator Tool and migrated it to the Austroads website as an online-enabled tool. This tool has two purposes. First is to identify lifeline freight routes and allow road managers to establish a lifeline…

In Australia and New Zealand maintaining road connections to communities in rural and/or remote areas is vital as often there is a lack of alternative connections. Where there are few road options to communities, these are known as lifeline routes.…

This document provides a hyperlinked list of the Austroads Test Methods and Specifications.

Austroads Technical Specification ATS 5820 specifies the requirements for the supply and application of anti-graffiti coating systems to structures, roadside furniture and traffic controller boxes. It excludes the application of coating systems to…

Road deterioration (RD) models help in predicting future road condition and assessing maintenance needs. Austroads recent project updated the current Austroads RD models using the additional long-term pavement performance (LTPP) and long-term…