Best Practice Guides
NTRO's Best Practice Guides are essential resources designed to enhance the management and maintenance of road and bridge assets. Building upon our extensive research over 60+ years when NTRO was known as ARRB – the Australian Road Research Board - these guides offer practical advice to local government authorities, state and territory road agencies, and industry practitioners, promoting consistent and effective practices across Australia.
NTRO's Best Practice Guides are essential resources designed to enhance the management and maintenance of road and bridge assets. Building upon our extensive research over 60+ years when NTRO was known as ARRB – the Australian Road Research Board - these guides offer practical advice to local government authorities, state and territory road agencies, and industry practitioners, promoting consistent and effective practices across Australia.
Why NTRO's Best Practice Guides Matter
These guides serve as invaluable tools for improving the quality and longevity of Australia's road infrastructure. By adhering to the best practices outlined, practitioners can ensure safer, more durable, and cost-effective road networks, ultimately benefiting the communities they serve.
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Guides to enhance quality and longevity of Australia's road infrastructure
Materials Guide
The Best Practice Guide for Road Materials provides local government authorities, state and territory road agencies and other agencies responsible for the management of sealed and unsealed roads with guidelines on ways to manage their road materials, and to achieve both a sustainable and cost-effective outcome.
The Guide provides a strong focus on the understanding and management of road materials and addresses the main topics of materials in relation to pavement design, construction, management and operation.
Unsealed Guide
The Best Practice Guide for Unsealed Roads provides local roads practitioners with a practical guide for the better basic understanding and management of unsealed roads. This is achieved by consolidating in one document best practice knowledge of the latest methods in asset management, pavement design procedures, construction and network operations for unsealed roads in Australia.
Sealed Guide
The Best Practice Guide for Sealed Roads provides local roads practitioners with a practical resource for the better basic understanding and management of sealed local road pavements. This is achieved by consolidating in one document background knowledge of the latest methods in pavement design procedures, developments in road surfacing technology and road building practices for sealed local roads in urban, rural and remote areas around Australia.
The Guide provides a strong focus on pavement management requirements relating to sealed local roads, and addresses the main topics of design, construction, maintenance and rehabilitation.
Bridge Management Guide
The Best Practice Guide for Bridge Management provides an overview of the basics of Bridge Management including; management, decision making, governance, risk frameworks and legal considerations; operations and maintenance; procurement of relevant services related to bridge management and asset disposal, re-purposing or replacement
This guide provides references that assist with the various processes associated with managing assets and templates and proformas for the more common tasks such as procurement of specific services.
Purchasing Hard Copies
For those who prefer physical copies, NTRO offers the option to purchase professionally printed versions of the Best Practice Guides.
