Our capabilities
Improving the safety and management of road and transport assets are issues faced by many developed and developing countries. ARRB Group has extensive international experience to solve a road and transport problem.
ARRB's expert staff together with our broad network of associations are able to provide consulting expertise in the following areas.
Road safety and traffic engineering
Our safety team have experience in the following areas:
- development of tailored best practice guides and manuals
- development of ‘expert’ road safety systems (e.g. setting speed limits – XLIMITS, road safety toolkit, etc)
- provide advice and evaluation for road safety strategies and programs
- provide road safety training and capacity building
- analysis of crash and traffic data
- Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS).
Heavy vehicle management
The services provided by ARRB in heavy vehicle assessment and advice have benefits in providing rapid return on investment with credibility. The services are:
- wide performance testing
- development of Performance Based System (PBS) assessment
- development of an innovative active trailer steering system
- conduct extensive heavy vehicle test programs resulting in performance information on acceleration, braking and yaw/ roll dynamics
- Evaluation of the safety of haul roads and haulage vehicles for mining companies.
Capacity building
ARRB is the premier supplier of high level workshops and seminars in the transport field. Our workshops cover a wide range of topics including:
- Basic Geometric Road Design
- HDM-4 seminars and training
- Local Skid Resistance Strategies
- Road Safety Audit training course.
Infrastructure management
Road data collection
- network and project level structural assessment
- network and project level automated pavement surface assessments
- network wide safety risk assessment of physical characteristics
- road geometry and mapping surveys
- digital imaging, inventory and assessment
- road construction quality testing.
Asset management
- provide design and construction advice
- strategic analysis and information management
- implementation and development of pavement management systems (PMS)
- equipped with the Accelarated Loading Facility (ALF) in Melbourne
- development, dissemination and implementation of HDM-4 based solutions
- providing local road solutions.
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ARRB's Dubai office
In response to a significant amount of interest being shown in our services within the Gulf States, ARRB established a permanent office in Dubai, 2007.
Previously, ARRB provided equipment technology and services in the Middle East. The RTA uses a Network Survey Vehicle that was developed by ARRB. ARRB has also provided advice in Qatar in relation to traffic management systems, a weigh-in-motion network, and has developed guidelines for the design of parking facilities.
Recent project -Safety audits of Dubai roads
During the year ARRB Group completed a large-scale safety audit project for the Dubai RTA in the United Arab Emirates. The audit covered 1,906 centreline kilometres or 6,518 lane kilometres of the Dubai road network including freeways, expressways, arterial, collector and commercial roads. It was the first major audit program undertaken in the Emirates, and was one of the largest of its type in the world.
ARRB’s team consisted of up to five auditors with two or three doing the field inspections while the others processed the findings in the ARRB Dubai office. The location of each finding was recorded using a global positioning system enabled digital camera which allowed each road safety issue to be accurately located, recorded and illustrated in the audit report. For each road audited, a comprehensive report was produced providing the findings and treatment recommendations.
The results of this project will help the Dubai RTA to identify potential safety risks and their location on the whole of the road network and consequently implement the recommended treatments to reduce risk. The project is considered one of the most important in the field of road safety in Dubai. It has opened up considerable work opportunities for ARRB as a pioneering firm in this field in the region.
For further information regarding the Dubai Office please visit the website www.arrb-me.com or contact:
John Hughes
Regional Manager - Middle East
ARRB Middle East
Unit 101, Al Safa Tower
Sheikh Zayed Road
PO Box 333790
Dubai
P: +971 4332 8532
F: +971 4332 8584
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