Integrated transportation and urban design master planning: a case study for the village of Binbrook ON [Ontario]
The Village of Binbrook, located in the southwest portion of the newly amalgamated City of Hamilton in southwestern Ontario, is a standalone community of under 1,000 people separated from the Hamilton urban area by 6 km of rural countryside. The City of Hamilton commissioned a Transportation Master Plan and consultant staff involved in the project determined very early on that a completely integrated approach should be adopted to realize a number of benefits, including integration of public involvement events and contacts and efficient iterations of successive transportation and urban design alternatives. Challenges met by the study approach included: effectively dealing with the competing interests of heavy truck traffic through the core of the village versus the desire for a historical and pedestrian-oriented design of the four corners in the village core; balancing the desire for on-street and off-street parking and centre median treatments with the need for left-turn storage lanes at the four corners traffic signal; and, establishing suitable roadway cross-sections to accommodate pedestrians, cyclists, vehicles, and urban design features throughout the community. The integrated study approach was unique, and resulted in a plan that recognized and resolved competing transportation and urban design issues in the Village of Binbrook.
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Authors:
- Gill, E M
- Zimmer, D
- Conference:
- Publication Date: 2003
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 19p
- Monograph Title: The transportation factor: Annual Conference and Exhibition of the Transportation Association of Canada, September 21-24, St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: City planning; Design; Highway design; Parking; Public participation; Rural areas; Traffic calming; Transportation planning
- Geographic Terms: Ontario, Canada
- ATRI Terms: Design; Local area traffic management; Parking; Public participation; Road design; Rural area; Town planning; Transport planning
- Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Society;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01390387
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: ARRB
- Files: ATRI
- Created Date: Aug 23 2012 4:48AM