TMR/SNO Road Operations ITS and Electrical – Asset Classification Hierarchy
There was a requirement to harmonise the asset and site names within the Intelligent Transport System and Electrical portfolio within Statewide Network Operations. This was because asset and site naming were inconsistent across the Districts within TMR. The improvement process was developed as part of Engineering and Technology, Traffic Engineering & Transport Systems (TETS) asset […]
Innovative pavement maintenance strategy and treatments for the Gore Hwy
The Gore Highway which forms part of the National Land Transport Network and is a major freight route servicing southern QLD and northern NSW. The section between Pittsworth to Millmerran traverses the Condamine River floodplain which incorporates very complex hydrology and extremely reactive (or expansive) soils. The flooding events of 2010 and 2011 resulted in […]
Informing Road Transport Sector Investments in the Context of Climate Change: A Bruce Highway Case Study Demonstrator.
The investment required to address current road transport sector risk is significant. Much critical infrastructure has been constructed without adequate consideration of severe hazard and the implications of disruption to transport systems. This is particularly so for flood hazard and how this might be exacerbated by changing climate. In this presentation a recently completed collaborative […]
PIARC Learning – Climate Change and Resilience of Road Networks
Climate change related extreme weather impact management is becoming a great challenge to maintain the resilience requirements of the road networks. Vulnerability assessment, adaptation treatments, and technical standards are important considerations. PIARC (World Road Association) provides a robust platform to acquire emerging knowledge in these areas. This paper presents following key takeaways from technical presentations […]
Implementation of digital techniques to optimise slope remediation design across 132 sites in South-east Queensland.
Throughout early 2022 across Southeast Queensland rainfall events caused significant damage to the region’s roads causing several landslips and rockfalls. The State Road authority identified 132 sites across the region for remediation works, presenting a unique challenge with the sites located over a 1000km2 area that required large digital data exports for geotechnical remediation solutions. […]
Stabilisation Of Black Cotton Subgrades Using Landfill Wastes
The Queensland economy is dependent on the maintenance and continued connectivity of its 226,000 km long road network. More than 70,000 km of this network is situated on expansive clay soils, in particular, black cotton soil which is found in rural areas of Queensland, including the Darling Downs, Maranoa and Central Highlands. These expansive soils […]
Queensland state of practice overview for give-way controlled pedestrian road crossings
Since give-way controlled raised pedestrian crossings were first successfully trialled in Brisbane in 2016, they have been implemented across the state. A Technical Guidance was published by TMR in 2019 documenting the ‘lessons learned’ from the trial and subsequent installations. Since that time there have been multiple installations across the state, some with varying interpretation […]
Non-intrusive vehicle detection system and incident detection system vs. traditional systems
Transport industry is striving to create a more sustainable, more efficient, and safer future by enhancing human perception through best-in-class intelligent imaging and sensing solutions. Approximately every year 1.24 million people globally die due to traffic accidents. Almost half of these deaths involve most vulnerable road users at urban and inter-urbane areas: motorcyclists, bicyclists, and […]
Introduction to AS 2312.3 – Thermal metal spray coatings
Standards Australia will soon release the draft of AS 2312 Guide to the protection of structural steel against atmospheric corrosion by the use of protective coatings Part 3: Metal spray coatings. This standard includes thermal metal spray coatings with organic topcoats and these duplex systems can be expected to provide in excess of 40 years […]
Next Generation Transport Safety: AI-based Video Analytics for Real-time Safety Assessment of Transport Infrastructure
Traditional road safety assessments require an unusually large number of crashes to accrue before transport infrastructure can be diagnosed for safety. In addition, police-reported crash data faces significant shortcomings, such as under-reporting, low sample means, limited behavioural information, and omitted variable bias. As such, traditional road safety models do not provide a complete picture of […]
