Road agencies on behalf of governments in Australia and New Zealand are increasingly supporting the use of Large Freight Vehicles (LFVs) to deliver the growing freight task more productively, sustainably and safely.

The Austroads project Design for Large Freight Vehicles (NEF6394) aims to develop harmonised, best-practice road design requirements for modern and emerging LFVs for all new road and road upgrade projects along heavy vehicle routes.

This webinar discusses the first component required for this project: helping develop support for updating the guidelines and providing recommendations on where the Austroads Guidelines may need updating. It also details the potential next steps required in this process.

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About the Speakers

1765149866-80ff30aae48a2a53 Sam Potts

Sam Potts is a Principal Economic Consultant with over 15 years’ experience in transportation infrastructure needs assessments, freight strategy and policy, regional development and business cases. He was recently the Program Manager and Assistant Director for the TfNSW Consolidated Freight Studies, has worked on several large road and rail business cases and has developed strategic freight planning documents for state governments.

1765149840-19ec53522067718d Steve McKenna

Steven is a Technical Executive (Civil Engineer) with 24 years’ experience in highway design and project management of civil engineering projects. He has been the highway design team leader on numerous Pacific Highway Upgrade projects and civil design team leader on a major rail project.

1765149814-a957308bf35d9a5a Ryan Miller

Ryan is a qualified traffic, transport, and civil engineer. He has over 21 years of experience as a consultant in managing and delivering numerous transport projects, including complex Freight and Heavy Vehicle access studies.