New subscription packages
for 2010/2011

Road and Transport Research journal

Road and Transport Research is a quarterly peer reviewed journal of interest to those involved in the road and transport fields, both local and international. It includes refereed and invited papers, news and local government items, new publications, reviews, and forthcoming events and conferences.

Subscription includes:

• Road and Transport Research journal – quarterly
• includes online access to papers and articles

Cost: $220 (including GST), A$240 (for overseas customers)*

*Overseas based customers are exempt from Goods and Services Tax (GST) except when an Australian based agent manages the subscription on your behalf.

Local Roads Information Package

This Package is designed for local government staff, engineers, consultants and contractors involved with design, traffic management, road safety, construction and maintenance of local roads.

It is available for Australian and New Zealand local government representatives.

This subscription package includes:

• Road and Transport Research Journal –quarterly hard copy (and online access)
• Knowledge Transfer training attendance discount – if 4 delegates from an organisation register for a workshop within the subscription period, the 4th delegate is free of charge. This will only be available for Local government subscribers and for one workshop per subscription year.
• opportunity to participate in four online webinars led by experts in the industry (one per quarter). Suggested topics in 2010/2011 include: Unsealed roads, Community road safety, Planning for transport, Maintaining your pavements.

PLUS –receive the free Local Roads newsletter and Briefing newsletter automatically.

Costs: For a twelve month subscription

• $545 (including GST) for Councils with population < 30,000 (A$530 for overseas based customers)
• $825 (including GST) for Councils with population > 30,000 (A$760 for overseas based customers).

Transport and Road Updates (TARU)

A monthly e-newsletter is currently distributed to those who have subscribed to the TARU. This service will eventually be freely accessible from the ARRB website as a series of RSS feeds. Customers will be able to select which latest road and transport publication details they want to be alerted to.

Costs: This is a free service. Please contact info@arrb.com.au to sign up for these updates.

Free ARRB publications

The following publications will be made freely available on the ARRB website (with RSS feeds to be set up also on the Latest news page). Customer may also wish to enrol to receive these publications directly:

• Briefing newsletter
• Other newsletters:
  o Local roads news
  o ARRB media releases
  o Road safety risk reporter newsletter
  o Micro-simulation newsletter
  o Mining newsletter.

Costs: This is a free service. Please visit www.arrb.com.au/Contact-us/Newsletter-subscription.aspx to sign up or www.arrb.com.au/Information-services/Publications.aspx for access to ARRB publications.

ARRB research reports

The majority of these reports are freely available to download in a PDF format from the ARRB website. Hard copies can also be purchased directly through book sales in the library.

Costs: Online electronic reports are free of charge. Hard copies can be purchased through the library for a cost, please contact booksales@arrb.com.au to purchase a copy.

Knowledge transfer workshop updates

All Knowledge Transfer information will be available on the website, customers can also receive direct emails on Knowledge Transfer workshops by subscribing to workshop updates.

Costs: This is a free service. Please contact training@arrb.com.au to sign up for this service or visit www.arrb.com.au/workshops.

Webinar and podcast subscriptions

This will be a new service introduced in late 2010 as a support service to the Knowledge Transfer events. Four webinars a year (quarterly) will be offered as part of the Local Government package only.

ARRB will expand its webinar and podcast capabilities in 2010/2011. If you wish to register your interest in becoming a webinar subscriber please contact info@arrb.com.au.

On-line forum subscriptions

This will be another new service to be introduced in 2011, with the purpose of acting as additional support to the Knowledge Transfer workshops and also provide avenues for discussion and information sharing in the industry.

Cost are yet to be determined. Please contact info@arrb.com.au to express your interest in participating in on-line forums.

Additional tools provided on the ARRB website

ARRB subscription packages will evolve and expand in response to industry needs with additional tools being developed and made accessible to our members and subscribers as they are developed.

ARRB will also provide additional tools to Local Roads subscribers and Austroads tools for all clients at no additional cost. Please visit www.arrb.com.au for latest updates on useful tools and documents, or if you wish to suggest or recommend information we can provide on our website.