MANAGING ROAD SPACE IN MELBOURNE - THE FAIRWAY SYSTEM

Recent policies for the management of conflicting demands on road space between different modes, parking of vehicles, property access and non-motorised road users have emphasised the need to consider person and freight movements rather than vehicle movements. This paper discusses the components and the initial results of a recently launched program being applied throughout Melbourne's tram network incorporating amendments to road traffic regulations, new pavement markings and signs, selective detection of signals and road geometry improvements. Melbourne has one of the world's most extensive tramway (streetcar) systems covering some 250 kilometres of arterial roads in the inner metropolitan area. Over the past two decades the system has experienced a steady decline in the service it can provide and a drop in patronage which to some extent is a result of delays to its vehicles due to increasing usage of the areterial road system by private motor vehicles. The number of the covering abstract for the conference is TRIS No. 393385. (Author/TRRL)

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was presented during the 12th Australian Road Research Board Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, 27-31 August 1984.
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  Melbourne, Victoria  Australia 
• Authors:
  • Howie, D J
  • Daley, K F
• Publication Date: 1984

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 42-48
• Serial:
  • Australian Road Research
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: ARRB
  • ISSN: 0005-0164

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Before and after studies; Bus priority; Conferences; Motor vehicles; Networks; Pedestrian safety; Public transit; Publicity; Road markings; Roads; Traffic delays; Traffic flow; Traffic regulations; Traffic signal preemption; Traffic signs; Travel time; Trip length; Trolley cars; Urban areas; Urban highways
• Uncontrolled Terms: Road networks; Traffic laws; Traffic segregation; Transportation networks
• Geographic Terms: Australia
• Old TRIS Terms: Traffic marking
• ITRD Terms: 8006: Australia; 9148: Before and after study; 562: Carriageway marking; 8525: Conference; 697: Journey time; 1054: Network (traffic); 648: Priority (traffic); 744: Public transport; 8573: Publicity; 350: Segregation (traffic, pedestrians); 671: Traffic flow; 1544: Traffic regulations; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Highways; Law; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00393443
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Jun 30 1985 12:00AM