ENVIRONMENTAL SENSITIVITY OF ARTERIAL ROADS

The development and application of arterial road management procedures utilises the full range of skills employed by the modern traffic engineer. For many years now, practitioners have attempted to include environmental issues in the decision matrix employed in this process. The environmental capacity concept was seen at one time as providing the basis for the logical selection of management procedures; more recently, the Victorian road/amenity classification procedure has gained favour with some parties because of its simplicity of application. This paper describes some recent work in the development of the concept of environmental sensitivity measures and their application to road classification and arterial road management and monitoring tasks in NSW, Western Australia and Victoria. A simple methodology is outlined which combines ease of application with a quantitative basis; the procedure has been recently applied in Leichhardt, NSW and the concept is illustrated by a description of this application. For the covering abstract of the conference see TRIS 452099. (Author/TRRL)

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of the 10th Australian Transport Research Forum, Melbourne, 13-15 May 1985. Volumes 1 and 2.
• Corporate Authors:

  ARRB

  Melbourne, Victoria  Australia 
• Authors:
  • SINGLETON, D J
  • Twiney, P J
• Publication Date: 1985

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 165-182
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Australian Road Research Board
  • Publisher: ARRB
  • ISSN: 1445-4467

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Arterial highways; Classification; Conferences; Environment; Environmental impacts; Highway capacity; Highway traffic control; Inventory; Land use; Management; Methodology; Monitoring; Networks; Planning; Roads; Sensitivity; Traffic engineering
• Uncontrolled Terms: Road networks
• Geographic Terms: Australia
• ITRD Terms: 8006: Australia; 643: Capacity (road, footway); 8513: Classification; 8525: Conference; 2455: Environment; 9035: Inventory; 356: Land use; 2748: Main road; 9102: Method; 143: Planning; 1053: Road network; 5928: Sensitivity; 655: Traffic engineering
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Design; Environment; Freight Transportation; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00452118
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 0-86910-175-7
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: May 31 1986 12:00AM