Development of guide content on managed motorways.

This report formulates content for the Austroads Guides on managed motorways. The majority of the content has been adopted from the VicRoads Managed Freeways: Freeway Ramp Signals Handbook (2010 and updated version 2013) and the VicRoads Managed Freeway Guidelines (2012). Additional content has come from supplementary guides provided by Queensland Transport and Main Roads and Main Roads Western Australia and other literature on managed motorways. Ramp metering is the main focus of this report as ramp metering plays a significant role in controlling the operational characteristics of a managed motorway. Detailed content on other aspects of managed motorways is expected to be compiled in future Austroads projects. The inclusion of guidance on managed motorways in the Austroads Guides should provide a definitive source of standardised information for managed motorways that will be accessible to all jurisdictions in Australia and New Zealand. Updating the Austroads Guides was outside the scope of this project but the report suggests how the content can be linked to the Austroads Guides and provides a strategy for further development of managed motorways information in future Austroads projects. (Author/publisher)