Date: Tuesday, 26 July 2022
Location: Online, 1:00 – 2:00pm AEST
Organiser: Austroads
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Austroads has updated the Guide to Road Design Part 6: Roadside Design, Safety and Barriers (AGRD Part 6) introducing new sections on the fundamentals of safety barrier systems and design advice for other road safety devices.
This webinar will cover the new structure of AGRD Part 6 and new information included as part of the current guide update focusing on the following sections:
- Section 4: Treatment Options, including options for consideration for a number of relatively common hazards
- Section 5: Fundamentals of Safety Barrier Systems, including information to assist users to make informed decisions when selecting a barrier system for a particular site
- Section 6: Road Safety Barriers, including design process.
The webinar will also provide details and the research background to a number of new concepts and processes that have been included in AGRD Part 6. These include barrier flexibility as a measure of their performance, the use of working width rather than deflection, the need to choose an appropriate containment level, the use of a new concept of the departure points of redirection, the placement of barriers behind kerbs, a revised method to calculate the length of need, the need to install barriers in appropriate soils and the orientation of barriers on superelevated roadways.
The webinar will be presented by Dr Rod Troutbeck and Richard Fanning.
There will be question and answer opportunities during the session.
Dr Rod Troutbeck is a principal of Troutbeck & Associates. Dr Troutbeck has been a researcher at the Australian Road Research Board and a Professor of Civil Engineering at Queensland University of Technology before consulting. In 2000, Rod received an Australian Sports Medal for services to Motor Sport. He has also been awarded the Institution of Engineers Australia Transport Medal in 2008, the US Transportation Research Board Kenneth A. Stonex Roadside Safety Award in 2013, Emeritus Member status of the US Transportation Research Board committee for Roadside Safety Design in 2014 after being a member for over 20 years and co-chairman of the International Research sub-committee for 12 years. Rod has a number of publications on roadside safety dating from the early 1980s.
Richard Fanning is Principal Engineer Road Design and Traffic in the Engineering Division of Department of Transport, Victoria. Richard has extensive experience in the delivery of major projects and leadership roles across design teams during his 36-year career with the Department. He has represented the Department on the Austroads Road Design Task Force for over 10 years and has been involved in numerous Austroads projects and updates to the Guide to Road Design.
No charge but registration is essential. Can’t make the live session? Register and we’ll send you a link to the recording.
Related webinar: Using the New Edition of the Guide to Road Design Part 6