Presented by Andy Excell and Claudelle Martin at the AITPM SA Branch – Back to Basics Seminar on October 22, 2015

1. OPERATION MOVING
TRAFFIC
Andrew Excell
Philip Blake
Claudelle Martin
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2. Purpose
Improving travel times, safety and
service delivery for people and
goods travelling on Adelaide’s
road transport network through
positive and on-going community
and stakeholder engagement
A new way of doing business to
manage traffic across Adelaide
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3. Objectives
• Effective and meaningful Community and stakeholder
engagement and system improvements consider multiple
road user types in an integrated way.
• System improvements are low cost and innovative, through
better use of existing infrastructure, information provision and
technology.
• Fixes address short term issues and cognisant of ITLUP, the 30
year Plan for Greater Adelaide and the Functional Road
Hierarchy.
• Road safety remains the first priority.
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4. Six Priority Areas – Themes
• Improvements to travel time
• Improvement to safety and security
• Better use of road space
• Improvements to Public Transport
• Efficient movement of freight
• Event and incident management
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5. Strategy
• Introduction of a process of community and stakeholder
engagement
• Analysis of feedback, development of scenarios for
improvement
• Delivery of quick wins
• Establishment of a process for on-going community
engagement over the longer-term with the introduction
of Moving Traffic Plans
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7. Communications Process
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• Minister’s Announcement set
the scene with a quick win –
real time travel time signs
• Engage through seeking to
discover the issues from the
Community perspective
• Success hangs on true
engagement with
community – silent majority

8. Community Feedback - Themes
• Bus lanes – support for having more bus lanes around the city and on main roads
• Traffic Signals – suggestions around synchronisation and the banning of right turns
• Clearways – extended times and more of these on arterial roads (Goodwood Rd, Unley Rd)
• Bike Lanes – more lanes and better facilities for cyclists
• Bus Stops – provide for indented bus bays
• Lane filtering – support for allowing motorcycles to lane filter
The feedback received to date has been mainly positive. The generator of most of the negative
feedback was traffic signals, with respondents perception being that they are not
synchronised/sequenced correctly.
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9. Public Transport was rated as
somewhat complex by 35.2%
of respondents and issues
that cause unreliable
transport were rated as
follows
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Community Feedback - Survey

10. The respondents ranked the
main causes of congestion
evenly over a number of
issues.
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Community
Feedback - Survey

11. Stakeholder Engagement
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15 submissions received from Councils and various
Stakeholder Groups (such as Walking SA & Bus SA).
All submissions received were generally supportive.
Key findings:
 Inner councils – had a more holistic view of mode shift and active travel,
raised concerns with impacts on local traffic and business due to arterial road
issues.
 Outer councils – Focussed on road infrastructure, due to growth
 Other Stakeholders – focus on mode shift to public transport and active
modes but mainly had specific issues or interests
 Limited discussion on rail based public transport

12. Communications Process – Next Steps
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A report, based on feedback &
issues, is being finalised and will
soon be released.
The next engagement phase will
seek more detailed information &
views to help analyse issues &
develop scenarios for improvement
The next engagement phase will
involve:
 Workshops with councils and
other key stakeholders
Public displays in shopping centres
Utilising Your Say & Social media

13. Implementation - Moving Traffic Plans
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• Focus on one or several arterial roads forming a
corridor.
• Intended to address road space conflicts and be the
basis for on-going stakeholder and community input –
common framework.
• Prepared in consultation with stakeholders and
community. Councils to be closely involved.
• Considers arterial and major local roads.
• Uses maps. Changes with time of day.

14. Moving Traffic Plans
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• Example diagrams (Victoria).
Operating Gaps Network strategies

15. Moving Traffic Plans
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• Initial focus: City – Airport corridor / inner western suburbs
• Outputs can include:
• Changes to signal operations
• Changes to bus operations and routes
• More real-time information
• Better use of road space across the day (e.g. in retail precincts)
• Better control of roadworks
• Minor short term infrastructure improvements
• Operation Moving Traffic

16. AITPM – 22 October 2015
Operation Moving Traffic
www.dpti.sa.gov.au/movingtraffic
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