Foreword

I am very proud that the re-birth of the ARRB Journal comes at the time that ARRB celebrates its 60th anniversary. The ARRB Journal had been for many years the principal source of road and infrastructure information for practitioners across the length and breadth of Australia. To ensure that remains the case we have made some significant changes while still pursuing the goal of knowledge sharing amongst planners, designers, builders, operators, and academics.

We have moved the Journal away from a purely academic focus towards being a source of research and implementation-based new knowledge of interest to all practitioners. The articles are designed to give a quick understanding of new opportunities, leaving the reader to choose whether to pursue details on specific aspects. To enable this further enquiry, the traditional paper based journal has been replaced with a new on-line version accompanied by a portal for video insights into the stories and opportunities for readers to ask questions and seek further information on the topics presented. The topics discussed and articles written will, over the regular publications of the journal, cast light on the issues that ARRB and the transport infrastructure community more generally have been working on.

This new journal format will call on practitioners and researchers from the broader transport and infrastructure community to participate in the flow of new knowledge across Australia and New Zealand and provide insights to those seeking innovative solutions to real world problems.

The ARRB journal will, over the years ahead, become the “go to” source of information and ideas generation across a range of topics that will usher in a new golden age of infrastructure development in Australia and New Zealand, and the associated transport outcomes which it enables. The journal has had a long and proud history that, now re-awakened, will serve our infrastructure community well.