Infrastructure changes to support automated vehicles on rural and metropolitan highways and freeways: road audit (module 2)

This project undertook an extensive field audit of Australian and New Zealand freeways and highways to inform the assessment of their readiness for active safety systems and automated driving. The road audit included more than 8 million individual line segments and 8 000 signs, on a 25 000 km sample of the road network which, although extensive, still represents less than 2% of the total network. The audit found that most freeways and highways of Australia and New Zealand can for the most part currently support safety assistance system (ADAS) operation and connected and automated vehicle (CAV) lane positioning, with good quality lines and cellular availability. The presence of left and right lane line markings is critical for lane positioning and there are significant proportions of the road network without edge lines. Increasing the use of edge lines and dividing lines (lane lines and centre lines) will provide a clear immediate benefit for both automated driving and human drivers.

• Record URL:
  https://austroads.com.au/publications/connected-and-automated-vehicles/ap-t348-19
• Availability:
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Austroads Project FSP6088
• Corporate Authors:

  Austroads

  Suite 2, Level 9, 287 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, New South Wales 2000, Australia
  Sydney, New South Wales   
• Authors:
  • Germanchev, A
  • Eastwood, B
  • Hore-Lacy, W
• Publication Date: 2019-10

Media Info

• Pagination: 81p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Auditing; Automated vehicle control; Center lines; Edge lines; Road markings; Traffic signs; Types of roads by network; Vehicle to infrastructure communications
• Geographic Terms: Australia; New Zealand
• ATRI Terms: Audit; Autonomous vehicle; Centre line; Edge marking; Pavement marking; Road network; Traffic sign; Vehicle to roadside communications
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01721105
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB Group Limited
• ISBN: 9781925854428
• Report/Paper Numbers: AP-T348-19
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Oct 31 2019 11:34AM