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Austroads 26 May 2026

Infrastructure Risk Rating Tool

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The Infrastructure Risk Rating Tool (IRRT) produces network-level infrastructure risk ratings for road sections, using coded attributes such as cross-section, alignment, intersection density, speed environment, and roadside hazard. The output is a comparable risk rating that lets road agencies prioritise investment across long networks without waiting for crashes to accumulate. IRRT complements crash-based analysis by surfacing high-risk roads that have not yet generated visible crash history.

In practice, IRRT guides you through a structured, repeatable assessment so options can be compared and prioritised consistently.

  • Screens and ranks options using an evidence-based method.
  • Links each option to indicative cost and expected crash-reduction benefit.
  • Produces defensible outputs for funding submissions and prioritisation.
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Provides evidence-based scoring and ranking to support treatment selection, investment prioritisation, and network-wide decision-making.

Use IRRT when you need to:

Use IRRT when you need to baseline the safety performance of a large road network, target your Network Safety Plan effort, support a funding submission with proactive risk evidence, or monitor change in network risk over time. It is particularly valuable on rural and outer-suburban networks where crash frequencies are low but crash severities are high.

The tool is delivered as a web application. Typical workflow:

Upload your network data (geometry, cross-section, coded attributes) into the IRRT model, run the rating calculation, and export the per-section rating outputs as both spreadsheet and map layers. The map outputs are designed for use in capital-program planning workshops; the spreadsheet outputs feed downstream into treatment-selection and Network Safety Plan workflows.

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