This unit combines two very important topics for civil engineers: asset management and road transportation engineering. Asset management addresses the important emerging field of infrastructure, and in this unit the key principles of asset management will be taught alongside principles of transportation engineering by focusing on road assets. The course will cover the requirements as outlined in International Standard ISO55001 "Asset Management" and Austroads "Guide to Asset Management" and will align with the local government focussed "International Infrastructure Management Manual" (IIMM). The road transportation engineering component includes aspects of the following topics: transport modes and planning; economics of transport; traffic and highway engineering including vehicle characteristics, collection of traffic data, parametric and non-parametric tests applied to traffic engineering problems, headway distributions, gap and delay models, speed and flow relationships, roadway capacity - uninterrupted and interrupted flow, isolated traffic signals, coordinated traffic signals, traffic accidents; environmental problems associated with roads. The aim of this component of the unit is to allow students to develop an understanding of the role of the traffic engineer in traffic planning and operations, designing components of the traffic infrastructure.