Date: Thursday, 5 October 2023
Location: Online, 1:00 – 2:00pm AEDT
Organiser: Austroads
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Supplements have provided important additional guidance to the Austroads Guide to Road Design (Guide). But there are questions about their use. Are these supplements needed? What should they contain? Should the information in the agency supplements be included in the Guide? These questions were addressed in a recently completed Austroads project that undertook a detailed review of jurisdictional supplements to the Guide.
This webinar will describe the classification of material in the jurisdictional supplements to establish guidance that could be moved into the Guide.
Webinar attendees will also hear about a cross-jurisdictional platform for managing supplements within a jurisdiction and moving information from supplements to the Guide. The platform was developed with the input from the Project Control Group and the Road Design Task Force represented by Australian and New Zealand road agencies, and the Australian Local Government Association.
The platform uses a ‘push-pull” approach where Austroads looks to ‘pull’ information from the supplements, and the road agencies look for a means to ‘push’ information into the Guide. This approach aims to assist in minimising supplement content and harmonising material in the Guide.
The webinar will be presented by Dr Rod Troutbeck and Dr Hafez Alavi.
There will be opportunities for questions and answers at the end of 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.
Dr Hafez Alavi has over 20 years of experience in the fields of road safety, injury prevention research, transport planning and sustainable mobility in the public/private sectors and the academia. He was a key contributor in strategising, planning, developing, delivering, and evaluating the Victorian Government’s ambitious Towards Zero Strategy and Action Plan. Previously the Director of the Safe System Road Infrastructure Program (SSRIP) – an investment of $1.7 Billion in road safety infrastructure – for the Transport Accident Commission in Victoria, Australia, Hafez has made significant contributions to transform Victoria’s transport system and infrastructure. Hafez completed his PhD at the Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC), where he researched into road safety and injury prevention with a focus on pedestrian safety in concentrated urban environment.
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