Corporate

Austroads has released its 2020-2024 Strategic Plan which refocuses the organisation to help solve problems for transport agencies in Australia and New Zealand.

Austroads purpose is to provide high-quality, practical and impartial advice, information, tools and services to help our members to deliver efficient, reliable and safe mobility to their customers.

Eight focus areas will direct the work of Austroads:

• Infrastructure | Delivering affordable infrastructure that meets community needs
• Technology | Optimising the benefits of new technologies
• Data | Managing and harnessing the decision making power of data
• Sustainability | Reusing materials, reducing emissions and mitigating the impacts of climate change
• Investment | Optimising transport investment
• Safety | Improving safety for road users and workers
• Journeys | Improving the reliability and efficiency of end-to-end journeys
• Customers | Understanding and meeting customer needs.

This plan builds on our strengths of delivering high quality technical guidance and collectively identifying and solving Australasian transport problems.

We will continue to use a Program Management approach to deliver a schedule of projects that continually evolves to meet the needs of our members. Our programs are:

• Transport Infrastructure
• Road Safety and Design
• Transport Network Operations
• Future Vehicles and Technology.

We will also continue to deliver highly regarded national services such as:

• Transport Certification Australia (TCA)
• National Exchange of Vehicle and Driver Information System (NEVDIS)
• National Prequalification System for Civil (Road and Bridge) Construction Contracts
• Austroads Safety Barrier Assessment
• Austroads Safety Barrier Installation Accreditation Scheme

To ensure currency and respond to emerging issues this plan will be reviewed every 12 months at the mid-year Board meeting.