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Austroads is calling for Expressions of Interest (EOI) to bring together a panel of safe systems infrastructure experts to run road agency workshops that explore safe system interventions on mixed use arterials in Australia and New Zealand.
Urban arterials and intersections account for a large proportion of high severity crashes, particularly involving active (vulnerable) road users. Safety improvements and gains appear to be slower in this environment than in other areas.
While there is considerable research and knowledge of individual elements such as midblock pedestrian facilities, there are few examples outlining or demonstrating how to apply a coordinated Safe System approach to an entire corridor or sub-network.
An additional challenge to implementing a Safe Systems approach at this level is to improve safety outcomes while recognising and maintaining mobility demand.
This project will:
• Identify up to four arterials across Australia and NZ that could be developed as case studies
• Assemble a team of skilled Safe System infrastructure researchers and experts to lead a series of workshops to identify the issues and challenges, and develop potential initiatives to address these. Participants would include road controlling authorities (RCA), traffic management personnel, transport planners, etc.
• Develop indicative solutions and model the effects both in terms of safety and traffic outcomes. This could include before and after (design level) ANRAM assessments and traffic modelling in an appropriate software package (particularly if the RCA’s have an existing transport model)
• Undertake a second round of workshops to discuss the potential solutions and outcomes
• Report on the outcomes
The closing date for submissions is Monday 26 October 2015 at 5pm (AEST)