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Australian Road Research BoardApril 29, 20221 min read

South Australia's road network becomes more 'green'

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Australian Road Research BoardApril 27, 20221 min read

Recycled plastic builds noise walls in Victoria

In February 2020, the Victorian Government implemented the Recycling Victoria action plan ...
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Australian Road Research BoardApril 26, 20221 min read

Using recycled materials to make our roads safer

ARRB is currently working on a project researching the use of recycled glass in high ...
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Australian Road Research BoardApril 26, 20221 min read

Exploring recycled materials in the freight rail sector

With the climate crisis becoming even more important to address worldwide, the demand for ...
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Guy HandApril 22, 20222 min read

Roads Minister visits ARRB headquarters, labs and iPAVe

Victoria's Roads and Roads Safety Minister Ben Carroll got to know his Department's ...
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Australian Road Research BoardMarch 30, 20223 min read

Keep your transportation asset projects on track

A well-designed, task-specific asset assurance system is a must to keep things on track. ...
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Sam AfkarMarch 30, 20224 min read

Intelligent Compaction: the big piece of future road construction

Intelligent Compaction is a solution to the rapidly growing need in the road construction ...
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Australian Road Research BoardMarch 1, 20221 min read

ARRB's new iPAVe boasts world-first technology

The new iPAVe (Intelligent Pavement Assessment Vehicle) – featuring world-first ...
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Australian Road Research BoardMarch 1, 2022< 1 min read

Queensland tops nation's 2021 road toll

Queensland had the highest road toll in the nation in a COVID lockdown-affected 2021.
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Laura Nicol, ARRB Road SurveyorFebruary 28, 20221 min read

Safety with Simplicity: Thoughts from the field

Take a look at this photo of ARRB's reflectivity measuring vehicle and the truck.
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Australian Road Research BoardJanuary 24, 2022< 1 min read

Road reflectivity in the spotlight in Queensland

ARRB in conjunction with the Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR), is currently ...
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Rosy InterrigiDecember 9, 20211 min read

Smartphone data improving Australia's road network

Research is under way into smartphones to collect pavement roughness data to improve the ...
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Australian Road Research BoardDecember 1, 20212 min read

Unwanted paint priming the way in road construction

The humble can of household paint is at the heart of an Australian research mission to ...
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Rosy InterrigiNovember 10, 20211 min read

ARRB recognised at AustStab Awards of Excellence

ARRB and its staff have been honoured at the 2021 AustStab Awards of Excellence.
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Guy HandOctober 27, 20211 min read

Can recycled glass help boost skid resistance on roads?

A new trial is under way to see whether recycled glass can be used to provide safer, more ...
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Australian Road Research BoardOctober 8, 20211 min read

ARRB gives evidence to Federal Government road safety inquiry

ARRB road safety experts David McTiernan and Tia Gaffney have just given testimony to the ...
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Australian Road Research BoardSeptember 22, 20211 min read

Digital twin technology and the roads sector

Digital twin technology allows you to create a virtual representation of an asset and can ...
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Australian Road Research BoardSeptember 20, 20211 min read

How to extract value from your data

Prior to the lockdown period ARRB held a data insights forum for its customers and ...
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Australian Road Research BoardSeptember 7, 2021< 1 min read

The changing face of infrastructure measurement

ARRB has a suite of high-tech infrastructure measurement tools to help Australian ...
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Rosy InterrigiAugust 20, 20211 min read

Data and powerful supercomputer creates virtual bees

ARRB’s Research Data Scientist, Edward Dann, has combined his data science skills with ...
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