Thursday, 1 June 2023
Austroads has updated its Guide to Road Design part 4 series and the Design Vehicles and Turning Path Templates Guide providing contemporary intersection design guidance based on best-practice evidence to improve road safety.
Michael Nieuwesteeg, Austroads’ Road Safety and Design Program Manager, says the road transport industry is ever evolving and guidelines for practitioners must be maintained to include the latest research and best practices from across Australia and internationally.
A literature review of 14 Austroads research reports and key relevant jurisdictional supplements formed the basis of the updates with captured learning and experiences from road authorities and industry sharing insights into the application of the Guide to Road Design parts 4, 4A, 4B and 4C.
“We undertook this comprehensive update to ensure the most current body of knowledge is transferred into the Guide for implementation,” said Michael. “We consolidated new approaches to intersection and crossing design developed by jurisdictions and provided clear instruction to road practitioners on how Safe System principles are to be applied in the road design context.”
The updates focused on pedestrian crossings over raised platforms, railway crossing design, rural channelised intersection design, acceleration lane lengths for heavy vehicles to accelerate from rest to a specified speed, compact roundabouts, radial design of roundabouts, bicycle lanes at roundabouts and geometry of interchange ramps.
Edition 4.0 of the Design Vehicles and Turning Path Templates Guide has been restructured with additional guidance included on design vehicles versus checking vehicles, performance-based standards, clearances between swept paths, software parameters and a new design vehicle for a passenger vehicle towing a trailer.
Download the Guides:
Guide to Road Design Part 4: Intersections and Crossings: General
Guide to Road Design Part 4A: Unsignalised and Signalised Intersections
Guide to Road Design Part 4B: Roundabouts
Guide to Road Design Part 4C: Interchanges
Design Vehicles and Turning Path Templates Guide
For a summary of activities undertaken as part of the project, view the Update to Guide to Road Design: Intersections report.
Join us for a series of webinars with authors Noel O’Callaghan and Malcolm Mak to hear more about the update:
Webinar 1: Overview of the Changes to the Guide to Road Design Part 4 Series, Thursday 1 June 2023, 1 pm AEST.
Webinar 2: Using the Updated Guide to Road Design Parts 4 and 4A, Wednesday 7 June 2023, 1 pm AEST.
Webinar 3: Using the Updated Guide To Road Design Parts 4B and 4C, Tuesday 27 June 2023, 1 pm AEST.
Webinar 4: New Edition of the Design Vehicles and Turning Path Templates Guide, Wednesday 5 July 2023, 1 pm AEST.
No charge but registration is essential.
Can’t make the live sessions? Register and we’ll send you a link to the recordings.