Date: Tuesday, 23 April 2024
Location: Online, 1:00 – 2:00pm AEST
Organiser: Austroads
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For decades, Austroads Guide to Road Design (AGRD) has served as a critical resource for practitioners involved in road planning, design and engineering. Austroads recently completed a strategic review of road design guidance, identifying strategies to sustainably maintain the AGRD as the pre-eminent road design guide in Australia and New Zealand.
Through an online survey and face-to-face interviews, the project team identified opinions and possible strategic actions from users of the AGRD, stakeholders in road design practice and international experts. This webinar aims to describe what the review learned, and the nature of actions proposed to realise identified opportunities.
Webinar presenters will report on the findings of the engagement with the AGRD’s users and non-users. Provided feedback identified that road design must be context-sensitive and Austroads’ road design guidance needs to cover the range of contexts and the application of judgement is a critical part of context-sensitive designs and solutions.
The presenters will also explore how changes to structure and content might allow the AGRD to:
- better cover urban environments
- integrate guidance for planning and design
- more effectively promote context-sensitive design practices
- establish clearer links to supporting evidence.
There will be question and answer opportunities during the session.
The webinar will be presented by Andrew Somers and Dr Rod Troutbeck and moderated by Michael Nieuwesteeg, Austroads’ Road Safety and Design Program Manager.
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.
Andrew Somers is a specialist consultant in harnessing smart technology and operations to make a difference in transport. He is the Director of Transoptim and draws upon 20 years of experience working in the public sector and advising clients. Across nine years of advising on Automated Vehicles, he has tried to look beyond visions of utopia or doom and stay focussed on helping clients get to and prepare for the technology to make a real and positive difference.
No charge but registration is essential. Can’t make the live session? Register and we’ll send you a link to the recording.