Network Operations

The transport of people and goods is essential to the economic and social development of the community. Our network operations focus is to improve the efficient, reliable and safe operation of the road network.

Latest publications and webinars

Webinar: Safe Active Streets – An Overview of WA's Pilot Program
This webinar explores the origins of the program, how and why it started, it will share high-level insights from the evaluation, including what worked, what didn’t and what was learnt along the way. It also shares ‘where to next’ for the program and…
Webinar: Driving Data Potential: Exploring the Country's Road Network in the Digital Atlas of Australia
This webinar explores how the Digital Atlas is transforming the way we access and use location data. It discusses the National Roads dataset – a comprehensive dataset on Australia’s roads, now freely accessible to the public.
Webinar: Multimodal Incident Management – Reference Architecture
Austroads has developed a set of reference architecture models, content and guidance for use by road agencies to identify, plan and improve their multimodal incident management (MMIM) capabilities. MMIM is the resolution of an unplanned incident that…

The Network Task Force's objective is to improve the efficient, reliable and safe operation of the road network. Read about their work and projects.

Austroads' Guide to Traffic Management provides comprehensive traffic management guidance for practitioners involved in traffic engineering, road design and road safety.

Austroads' Guide to Temporary Traffic Management details contemporary temporary traffic management practice for application in Australia and New Zealand.

Austroads' Guide to Smart Motorways  provides practitioners with a standardised set of smart motorway information within a single reference document.

A overview of Austroads' projects to develop a National ITS Architecture,  a priority action in the Policy Framework for ITS in Australia. 

The Pedestrian Facility Selection Tool helps practitioners select the most appropriate type of pedestrian crossing based on walkability, safety and economic outcomes. Link to Tool and user guide.

Background to the development of the SmartRoads Tool and links to the current version.

This library provides practitioners with a Network Operation Planning framework, links to more detailed information and Australasian case studies.