Date: Tuesday, 22 September 2020
Location: Online, 1:00 – 2:00pm AEST
Organiser: Austroads
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Minimising the risk of roadside crashes is important in reducing the number of fatalities and serious injuries on our roads. The recently updated Part 6 of the Austroads Guide to Road Design includes a new method to determine the risk associated with roadside crashes and to identify where risk mitigation treatments are required on urban and rural road networks. The approach establishes a Network Roadside Risk Threshold (NRRIT) which consistently directs the locations for treatments within projects.
There will be two sessions with the first one focused on user guidance, including the practical application of the new method. The webinar will describe the new procedure for evaluating a rural road network, how policies will influence decisions and how the NRRIT can consistently delineate road sections where treatments are required.
The webinar will also provide the basis of the procedure by using a simpler example so that participants can appreciate its broader application. The example will demonstrate how risk graphs, based on contemporary knowledge, can be used to expedite the assessment procedure.
The second webinar will describe the procedure’s background in more detail explaining the concepts and research behind it.
Presented by Peter Ellis and Rod Troutbeck.
There will be question and answer opportunities during the session.
Peter Ellis is currently the Director Road Design – Transport for NSW. He has over 40 years’ experience in all aspects of road design, ranging from major rural and urban motorway design to minor road / intersection and drainage designs. He has a specialist knowledge of road design and associated policy and standards, also in road safety and design auditing. He has represented Austroads as a corresponding member on the Permanent International Association of Road Congresses Task Force “Road Design and Infrastructure for Innovative Transport Solutions” and has been actively representing Roads and Maritime Services, now integrated with Transport for New South Wales, on the Austroads Task Force since 2001.
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.
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Updated Roadside Design Guidance – Crash Risk Evaluation Procedure Background Tuesday 6 October 2020, 1-2 pm AEST