ENVIRONMENTAL CAPACITY: A RESEARCH STUDY TO DEVELOP A METHODOLOGY FOR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT BASED ON ENVIRONMENTAL CRITERIA
This report is for Transport Planning and Research Project VMUN 79/8, and was prepared for the Collingwood City Council, Melbourne, Victoria. Refinement of the environmental capacity technique overseas has progressed considerably during recent years, particularly in the United Kingdom, to the point where two criteria by which EC can accurately be measured have become generally accepted. These are traffic noise and effect on the pedestrian environment. These two primary criteria have been adopted for use in this study and, with the secondary criteria of air quality and visual intrusion, have been adapted in order to relate more closely to conditions prevailing in inner urban situations in Australian cities. To do this, the behaviour of vehicles and pedestrians in a selected pilot study area were surveyed and analysed. The methodology developed and presented in this report as a process which can be applied to any location enables the ec link, street or network of streets to be calculated. From the ec figure, and with the existing conditions of traffic flow being known, the environmental deficiency index can be calculated. The ec methodology as described is a valuable tool in providing an understanding of levels of traffic impact but it does not provide explicit solutions to traffic management problems. The standards adopted in this study as the measures by which traffic impact can be assessed are by no means fixed or final. They will require updating as community preferences change and as the further research necessary is carried out. (Author/TRRL)
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Corporate Authors:
Ove Arup Transportation Planning
Planning Collaborative, 406 Collins Street
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Publication Date: 1980-6
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 163 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Aesthetics; Air pollution; Environment; Highway capacity; Highway traffic control; Impact studies; Methodology; Networks; Pedestrian safety; Pedestrians; Roads; Sound; Traffic; Traffic flow; Traffic noise; Traffic surveys; Transportation operations; Urban areas
- Uncontrolled Terms: Criteria; Road networks; Traffic studies; Visual intrusions
- Geographic Terms: Australia
- ITRD Terms: 8006: Australia; 643: Capacity (road, footway); 1394: Catalytic converter; 2455: Environment; 9112: Impact study; 9102: Method; 1144: Operations (transp network); 1733: Pedestrian; 6748: Sound; 755: Traffic; 671: Traffic flow; 313: Urban area; 2481: Visual intrusion
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00361626
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: ARRB
- Report/Paper Numbers: Monograph
- Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
- Created Date: Jul 30 1982 12:00AM