Traffic Engineering

Richard Isted, SMEC - A Shout Out to Traffic Engineering Fundamentals

Richard Isted

SMEC 

Richard does lots of things, but ultimately he seeks to better inform decision makers through robust but practical methods. Most recently Richard has been a casual lecturer in traffic engineering at UWA, and wishes to bring some thoughts on traffic engineering to the OTCS from that experience.

A Shout Out to Traffic Engineering Fundamentals

Traffic engineering is a somewhat muted but highly important topic within the context of planning and managing transport infrastructure. Over the past few years, AITPM conferences have had diminishing content labelled as traffic engineering, with preferences towards transport planning and modelling, as well as the highly complementary area of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). This presentation seeks to reconfirm what traffic engineering is, and to present a fresh perspective on a number of the key concepts in a way that is directly relevant and applicable to modern transport planning and management.

Deborah Donald

O'Brien Traffic

Parking Provision and Parking Design for Developments - A Victorian Traffic Engineer's View

There is a view that the experience and knowledge of Traffic Engineers is being ignored by Town Planners and others with an overly optimistic view of the situation in relation to the provision of parking for developments. Examples include recent changes to the Planning Scheme, introduced seemingly without reference to Traffic Engineers, which have removed visitor parking from developments within the Principal Public Transport Network Area, which has caused operational issues. The current proposed changes to the Australian Standard parking space dimensions has also progressed with seemingly no reference to practicing Traffic Engineers.

Adam Wilmot
GHD

Adam is a highly experienced transport professional involved in the planning, design, and delivery of some of WA's major road and rail infrastructure in recent years. Adam has been in a leadership role on major infrastructure projects often involving the early and cooperative involvement of designers and constructors in integrated team environments. Adam brings the benefit of his wide experience combined with a collaborative and people-focused approach to delivering the best project outcomes.

Co-Author(s)

Nithin Venkat

Nithin is a proven and qualified data scientist, specialising in business intelligence, data transformations and advanced data processing techniques.

Nithin works closely with clients across various industry sectors to understand their workflow and help leverage Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and business intelligence solutions to solve their most critical problems.

Proficient in translating business requirements into Interactive Reports and helping to make business decisions based on curated analysis.

Farn Khung

Farn has had 7 years’ experience working in both traffic engineering and transport design. He has a range of experience working on projects varying from traffic impact assessments, car park design, concept and functional layout plans, traffic signal plans, construction traffic management plans and event management plans.

Road Safety Insights using Compass IoT - Regional STiLS Evaluation

As a collaboration and innovation piece, GHD has been working with Department of Transport and Planning Victoria (DTP) to utilise the emerging vehicle telemetric data from Compass IoT. This data provides vehicle performance information at points on the road network from vehicles constructed after 2019. Insights from this data has been used to evaluate whether a program to install traffic calming devices in numerous regional communities around Victoria has delivered 'safe travel'.

This new data source has allowed GHD to look at road safety from a different perspective, obtaining different metrics and insights that are valuable tools which can be used to influence decision makers, planner and designers to improve road safety outcomes across Victoria.