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    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.

    • Heavy Vehicle National Law review

      We are going back to basics to review the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL).

    • Light vehicle emissions

      We report on the carbon dioxide emissions intensity of new cars and light commercial vehicle sales each year to provide a transparent benchmark for how Australia’s new car emission footprint is tracking.

    • Progress on reforms

      Each year, we provide a progress report to the Transport and Infrastructure Council on the implementation status of nationally approved transport reforms.

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    Codes and guidelines

    • Load Restraint Guide

      The Load Restraint Guide provides truck drivers, operators, and everyone in the transport chain of responsibility with basic safety principles for the safe carriage of loads on road vehicles.

    • Australian Dangerous Goods Code

      The Australian Code for the Transport of Dangerous Goods by Road & Rail sets out the requirements for transporting dangerous goods by road or rail.

    • Assessing Fitness to Drive

      Assessing Fitness to Drive is a joint NTC and Austroads publication containing the nationally agreed medical standards for granting a driver's licence.

    • National Standard for Health Assessment of Rail Safety Workers

      All health assessments of rail safety workers in Australia are conducted in line with the current edition of the National Standard for Health Assessment of Rail Safety Workers

    • Automated vehicle trial guidelines

      The guidelines have been developed by NTC and Austroads to support nationally-consistent conditions for automated vehicle trials in Australia

    • Automated vehicle national enforcement guidelines

      These guidelines clarify who is in control of, and therefore legally responsible for, an automated vehicle

  • 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

      The model Australian Road Rules form the basis of road rules of each Australian state and territory.

    • 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 Australian Defence Force (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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At the NTC we lead national land transport reform to advance social and economic outcomes for all Australians through an efficient, integrated and consistent transport system.

Discover the work we are doing across the transport sector from the heavy vehicle national law review to the introduction of automated vehicles on Australian roads.

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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.

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Heavy Vehicles
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Heavy Vehicle National Law review

We are going back to basics to review the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL). 

Projects

Our work aims to achieve our strategic objectives of improved safety, productivity, regulatory efficiency and environmental outcomes across the land transport sector.

Light vehicle emissions

Tracking the carbon dioxide emissions intensity performance of new passenger and light commercial vehicles sold in Australia.

Progress on reforms

We produce this report each year to monitor the implementation of national transport reforms.

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