Thursday, 2 November 2017
Today Austroads published its 2016-17 annual report.
The report provides a detailed review of the strategic focus of each Austroads Program as well as the projects completed and progressed during the year.
At a glance, in 2016-17 Austroads:
- invested $12.4m in our roads related research work program, contracting 40 organisations to deliver our work program including $6.9m in infrastructure design and testing, $3.6m in road safety, $1.6m in road network management and $200K in connected and automated vehicles
- undertook work in 125 projects, completing 46 during the year
- published 226 papers, reports and updates to the Austroads Guides (with 340,000 publications sold and downloaded)
- enabled 135m driver licence and vehicle registration database transactions via the National Exchange of Vehicle Data Information Service (NEVDIS).
Significant achievements include:
- Delivery of the first Data Standard for Road Management and Investment, which is being developed to provide Australian and New Zealand road agencies and their suppliers with a common approach to the specification of operational data.
- Publication with Standards Australia of the highly anticipated seven part Standard AS(/NZS) 5100:2017 Bridge Design published in March.
- Publication of the Congestion and Reliability Review which measures the levels and identifies the key causes of congestion across major cities in Australia and New Zealand.
- Finalisation of projects which reviewed the funding and financing arrangements for regional and remote roads in Australia and the application of community service obligations to the roads sector
- Delivery of 13 two-day Safe System Infrastructure workshops across Australia and New Zealand.
- Development of a library of modern hazard perception test videos using computer-generated imagery. The project will allow jurisdictions to introduce a hazard perception test specifically designed for motorcyclists, a world first road safety initiative.
- Publication of an updated edition of Assessing Fitness to Drive, a joint publication of the National Transport Commission and Austroads, and includes standards for private and commercial drivers of heavy vehicles, light vehicles and motor bikes (more than 90,000 copies downloaded).
- Publication of Guidelines for Trials of Automated Vehicles in Australia, a joint publication of the National Transport Commission and Austroads, support state and territory road agencies in providing exemptions or permits for trials, and give greater certainty to industry.
- Finalisation of an investigation into the potential changes needed to the way road networks are managed to consistently support and optimise the outcomes from the introduction of automated vehicles.
Report link: Austroads 2016-17 Annual Report