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Data Standard for Road Management and Investment in Australia and New Zealand: Version 1
  • Publication no: AP-T315-16
  • ISBN: 978-1-925451-43-6
  • Published: 10 November 2016

The Data Standard for Road Management and Investment is being developed to provide Australian and New Zealand road agencies and their suppliers with a common approach to the specification of operational data.

The Standard will establish agreed definitions of data to ensure it is collected, used and interpreted appropriately and consistently.

The Standard provides guidance for road managers with different levels of sophistication in inventory and asset planning, and will benefit anyone who uses road related data for research, policy development, expenditure comparisons, funding approvals, national reporting, shared services and inter-organisation communications. It will also benefit innovation and national reforms.This first version of the Standard has been prepared to provide information for road managers and the wider road sector. Austroads is now revising the Standard and plans to publish a second version in 2017. The 2017 version will contain additional data fields and be supported with an implementation plan.

To find out more about the project and sign up for project updates please visit the Road Data Harmonisation project page.

This version of the Standard was superseded by Edition 2.0 released in June 2018.

  • Summary
  • 1.            Overview
    • 1.1          Purpose
    • 1.2          Data Scope
    • 1.3          Data Standard Context
    • 1.4          Benefits and Impacts
    • 1.5          Reporting Data in terms of this Standard
  • 2.            Road Management and Investment Practice
  • 3.            Function Groups and Data Items
    • 3.1          Data Specification Structure
    • 3.2          Function Groups
    • 3.3          Asset Data Items
  • 4.            Setting the Context
    • 4.1          Using This Standard
    • 4.2          Road Network Definition
      • 4.2.1      Road Network Topology
      • 4.2.2      Link Sections
      • 4.2.3      Relative Lengths
    • 4.3          Location Referencing System
    • 4.4          Asset Planning
    • 4.5          Asset Data
    • 4.6          Data Schemas
      • 4.6.1      Road Management and Investment
      • 4.6.2      Functional Based Approach
      • 4.6.3      Logical Navigation to Data Specifications
    • 4.7          Determining the Appropriate Levels of Sophistication
  • 5.            Asset Data Life Cycle
  • 6.            Data Classes
    • 6.1          Data Class Definition
    • 6.2          Data Class Attributes (Data Item)
  • 7.            Data Item Specifications (Common Classes)
    • 7.1          Object Locations
      • 7.1.1      Points
      • 7.1.2      Polylines
      • 7.1.3      Polygons
    • 7.2          Data Confidence
  • 8.            Data Specifications (Data Classes)
    • 8.1          Network Definition
    • 8.2          Classification
    • 8.3          Inventory
      • 8.3.1      Amenities
      • 8.3.2      Bins
      • 8.3.3      Bridge / Major Culvert
      • 8.3.4      Culverts (Minor)
      • 8.3.5      Fences
      • 8.3.6      ITS Assets
      • 8.3.7      Kerb and Channel
      • 8.3.8      Landscaping
      • 8.3.9      Lighting
      • 8.3.10    Line-Marking Assets
      • 8.3.11    Mechanical and Electrical Assets
      • 8.3.12    Parking
      • 8.3.13    Pathways
      • 8.3.14    Pavement
      • 8.3.15    Pavement Surfacing
      • 8.3.16    Pits
      • 8.3.17    Poles
      • 8.3.18    Public Art
      • 8.3.19    Public Toilets
      • 8.3.20    Retaining Walls
      • 8.3.21    Road Barriers
      • 8.3.22    Shelters
      • 8.3.23    Signs
      • 8.3.24    Slopes
      • 8.3.25    Structures
      • 8.3.26    Table Drains
      • 8.3.27    Tactile Paving
      • 8.3.28    Traffic Management Devices
      • 8.3.29    Traffic Signals
      • 8.3.30    Trees
      • 8.3.31    Tunnels
      • 8.3.32    Vehicle Crossings
    • 8.4          Condition
    • 8.5          Performance (Asset)
    • 8.6          Performance (Service)
    • 8.7          Access
    • 8.8          Demand
    • 8.9          Works and Costs
  • 9.            Referenced Code Lists
  • 10.          Glossary of Terms and Definitions
  • References
  • Appendix A         Data Items Listing
  • Appendix B         Activities Listing