Junction design - a view from the sharp end

The author gives his opinion as a consultant with the Halcrow Group on junction design. He highlights the problems with implementing schemes originating from feasibility studies in transportation planning departments. The challenges to adding traffic signals to roundabouts are outlined. Factors that are often not considered include installing traffic signal poles, vehicular access, and pedestrian access on footways. The author describes his experiences with installing pedestrian crossings on junctions as part of the Safe Routes to School schemes. He emphasises the need to be specific in Employer's Requirements documents. He discusses challenges to signallers in competitive tender processes, drawing content, problems for crossing users when the signal sequence is changed, adding traffic signals in the vicinity of other traffic signals, signal control on a length of road, and remote monitoring of traffic signals.

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• Authors:
  • SHOOBRIDGE, P
• Publication Date: 2005-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 189-92
• Serial:
  • Traffic Engineering & Control
  • Volume: 46
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: Hemming Group, Limited
  • ISSN: 0041-0683
  • Serial URL: http://www.tecmagazine.com/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crosswalks; Intersections; Planning; Roundabouts; Safety; School trips; Traffic control; Traffic signal cycle; Traffic signals
• Uncontrolled Terms: Change
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• ITRD Terms: 576: Cycle (traffic signals); 622: Journey to school; 455: Junction; 9048: Modification; 1659: Pedestrian crossing; 143: Planning; 438: Roundabout; 1665: Safety; 654: Traffic control; 565: Traffic signal; 8119: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01014180
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Dec 22 2005 2:02PM