Wednesday, 28 September 2016
Austroads has published the third edition of the Guide to Road Design Part 3: Geometric Design.
The Guide provides road designers and other practitioners with information about the geometric design of road alignments.
Changes to this edition of the Guide include:
- Expanded information on the design objectives
- Additional information on vulnerable road users, particularly motorcyclists
- New information on emergency aircraft runway strips
- Guidance for determining desired speed for rural roads and on steep grades
- Additional guidance on crown line and rural road lane and shoulder widths
- Additional guidance on shoulder widths and sealing
- Additional guidance on verge slopes and rounding
- Additional information on providing bicycle lanes
- New guidance on a procedure for designing superelevation and development of superelevation on shoulders
- New information outlining a procedure for checking critical vertical clearance points
- Additional guidance on selecting a starting and terminating point of an auxiliary lane.
- New appendices: emergency aircraft runway strips; narrow median treatments with wire rope safety barrier; guidance for wide centreline treatments; and flowcharts and table for determining stopping sight distance requirements for curves with barriers.
This edition was prepared by Richard Fanning, Gary Veith, Mike Whitehead and Peter Aumann, ARRB Group and project managed by Richard Fanning, VicRoads and John Spathonis, Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads.
The hard copy can be purchased for $176 (+postage and handling) and the PDF for $140.80.
Austroads members can download PDF versions of the Guides for free. This includes all state and territory road agencies and local councils in Australia and New Zealand.
To request your user login and password for free access please send an email from your work email address to austroads@austroads.com.au.
Guide link: Guide to Road Design Part 3: Geometric Design
Webinar: Austroads Guide to Road Design Part 3: Geometric Design
18 October and 25 October 2016 | 2-3pm Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time
This two-part webinar will provide participants with an overview of the updated Guide to Road Design Part 3.
Presented by Peter Aumann, Principal Research Engineer, ARRB Group. Peter specialises in road design with a cross over in traffic management and road safety. He has played a pivotal role in the 2016 update of the Guide.
No charge but registration is essential.