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Transport reform
Transport reform
- NTC projects
  Our work aims to achieve our strategic objectives of improved safety, productivity, regulatory efficiency and environmental outcomes across land transport.
- Automated vehicle program
  Our goal is end-to-end regulation to support the safe commercial deployment and operation of automated vehicles at all levels of automation in Australia.
- Towards a new Heavy Vehicle National Law
  We're working on behalf of transport ministers to deliver an updated Heavy Vehicle National Law in Australia. The goal is to simplify the law to enhance safety while delivering industry productivity and flexibility. Consultation is now open.
- Light vehicle emissions intensity in Australia
  Our ‘Light Vehicle Emissions Intensity in Australia: Trends Over Time,’ report provides the most detailed analysis of vehicle emissions trends ever published in Australia.
- National Rail Action Plan
  The National Rail Action Plan and current work program support a national vision for a modernised, seamless and safe rail system.
- Progress on reforms
  Each year, we share a progress report with infrastructure and transport ministers on the status of national land transport reforms.
- National Transport Reforms Evaluation Framework
  The Evaluation Framework will be used to understand the outcomes of national land transport reform, while enabling us to provide evidence-based advice to the Transport Ministers.
Codes and guidelines
Codes and guidelines
- Load restraint guides for light vehicles
  Read the relevant load restraint guide to ensure you meet load restraint standards for light and heavy vehicles in Australia.
- Australian Dangerous Goods Code
- Assessing Fitness to Drive
  Assessing Fitness to Drive contains the nationally-agreed medical standards for granting a driver's licence.
- National Standard for Health Assessment of Rail Safety Workers
  The National Standard for Health Assessment of Rail Safety Workers (the Standard) provides a structured, evidence-based method for assessing and managing medical conditions that may impact a rail safety worker’s ability to perform their duties safely.
- Automated vehicle trial guidelines
  These guidelines support nationally-consistent trial conditions at all levels of automation.
- National voluntary guidelines for landside stevedore charges
  The national voluntary guidelines for landside stevedore charges establish clear protocols for notification and communication on increases to existing, or the introduction of new, charges levied on transport operators.
Laws and regulations
Laws and regulations
- Heavy Vehicle National Law
  The Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL) regulates heavy vehicles over 4.5 tonnes gross vehicle mass in participating states and territories.
- Rail Safety National Law
  The Rail Safety National Law aims for a seamless and coordinated national approach to rail safety regulation in Australia.
- Australian Road Rules
- Australian Light Vehicle Standards Rules
  The Australian Light Vehicle Standards Rules are model rules that regulate in-service vehicle standards for light vehicles. They form the basis for each state and territory to implement in their own vehicle standards rules.
- Australian Defence Force Road Transport Exemption Framework
  The Framework provides nationally-uniform exemptions for the use of ADF military vehicles and equipment on public roads.
- Heavy Vehicle Charges Model Law
  The Heavy Vehicle Charges Model Law sets registration charges for heavy vehicles and defines the methodology for calculating annual adjustments.
- Registration charges for heavy vehicles
  Heavy vehicle charges aim to recover heavy vehicle related expenditure on roads from heavy vehicle operators.
- Road user charges
  The Road User Charge (RUC) applies to each litre of diesel used by heavy vehicles such as buses, coaches and trucks on public roads.
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