Operation Moving Traffic

OPERATION MOVING TRAFFIC

Andrew ExcellPhilip BlakeClaudelle Martin

AITPM Presentation – 22 October 2015

Purpose

Improving travel times, safety and service delivery for people and goods travelling on Adelaide’s road transport network through positive and on-going communityand stakeholder engagement

A new way of doing business to manage traffic across Adelaide

AITPM – 22 October 2015

Operation Moving Traffic

Objectives• Effective and meaningful Community and stakeholder

engagement and system improvements consider multiple road user types in an integrated way.

• System improvements are low cost and innovative, through better use of existing infrastructure, information provision and technology.

• Fixes address short term issues and cognisant of ITLUP, the 30 year Plan for Greater Adelaide and the Functional Road Hierarchy.

• Road safety remains the first priority.



Six Priority Areas – Themes

• Improvements to travel time

• Improvement to safety and security

• Better use of road space

• Improvements to Public Transport

• Efficient movement of freight

• Event and incident management



Strategy

• Introduction of a process of community and stakeholder engagement

• Analysis of feedback, development of scenarios for improvement

• Delivery of quick wins

• Establishment of a process for on-going community engagement over the longer-term with the introduction of Moving Traffic Plans



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Communications Process



• Minister’s Announcement set the scene with a quick win –real time travel time signs

• Engage through seeking to discover the issues from the Community perspective

• Success hangs on true engagement with community – silent majority

Community Feedback - Themes• Bus lanes – support for having more bus lanes around the city and on main roads

• Traffic Signals – suggestions around synchronisation and the banning of right turns

• Clearways – extended times and more of these on arterial roads (Goodwood Rd, Unley Rd)

• Bike Lanes – more lanes and better facilities for cyclists

• Bus Stops – provide for indented bus bays

• Lane filtering – support for allowing motorcycles to lane filter

The feedback received to date has been mainly positive. The generator of most of the negative feedback was traffic signals, with respondents perception being that they are not synchronised/sequenced correctly.



Public Transport was rated as somewhat complex by 35.2% of respondents and issues that cause unreliable transport were rated as follows



Community Feedback - Survey

The respondents ranked the main causes of congestion evenly over a number of issues.



CommunityFeedback - Survey

Stakeholder Engagement



15 submissions received from Councils and various Stakeholder Groups (such as Walking SA & Bus SA).

All submissions received were generally supportive.

Key findings: Inner councils – had a more holistic view of mode shift and active travel, raised concerns with impacts on local traffic and business due to arterial road issues. Outer councils – Focussed on road infrastructure, due to growth Other Stakeholders – focus on mode shift to public transport and active modes but mainly had specific issues or interests Limited discussion on rail based public transport

Communications Process – Next Steps



A report, based on feedback & issues, is being finalised and will soon be released.

The next engagement phase will seek more detailed information & views to help analyse issues & develop scenarios for improvement

The next engagement phase will involve: Workshops with councils and other key stakeholders Public displays in shopping centres Utilising Your Say & Social media

Implementation - Moving Traffic Plans



• Focus on one or several arterial roads forming a corridor.

• Intended to address road space conflicts and be the basis for on-going stakeholder and community input –common framework.

• Prepared in consultation with stakeholders and community. Councils to be closely involved.

• Considers arterial and major local roads.

• Uses maps. Changes with time of day.

Moving Traffic Plans



• Example diagrams (Victoria).

Operating Gaps Network strategies

Moving Traffic Plans



• Initial focus: City – Airport corridor / inner western suburbs• Outputs can include:

• Changes to signal operations• Changes to bus operations and routes• More real-time information• Better use of road space across the day (e.g. in retail precincts) • Better control of roadworks• Minor short term infrastructure improvements

• Operation Moving Traffic



www.dpti.sa.gov.au/movingtraffic

Questions?

http://www.dpti.sa.gov.au/movingtraffic

Education

Operation Moving Traffic