Route Assessments and Strategic Planning

We provide route assessments and strategic planning that incorporates road safety, heavy vehicle accessibility, traffic management and pavement conditions. We can ensure your money is being well spent on the right projects through informed cost/benefit analysis.

All organisations that are responsible for road infrastructure transport systems are challenged by how to best manage and enhance these systems to maximise safety benefits for the community. 

A way of working through this complexity is to undertake network and corridor assessment to identify existing and anticipated safety issues, determine relative priorities and develop appropriate strategies to address these over the longer term.

Why undertake route assessments and strategic planning? Well, funding for road works is never sufficient to meet the demands from all of the community. Route assessments and strategic planning ensure that required works are appropriately prioritised and inform broader planning initiatives. They also support submissions for Government sponsored programs that are designed to provide optimum safety benefits of private and commercial travel. 

Route Assessments and Strategics Planning has four distinct levels:

  1. NETWORK - All roads that provide interconnected routes between locations

  2. CORRIDOR - Parallel, possibly competing, routes (and modes of transport) between locations

  3. ROUTE - A single physical route (road) between two locations

  4. PROJECT - An individual discrete length of the route (road)

To undertake the Route Assessment and to develop a Strategic Plan a number of key items are included:

  • Seek collaboration with other agencies/authorities that can compliment infrastructure works (safe systems approach)

  • Definition of the network including the points of origin and points of destination

  • Establishing objectives assessment criteria that support road user safety

  • Assess the safety performance of defined corridors and route

  • Identify key locations where existing issues are present

  • Identify future land use and likely growth impacts on current performance

  • Develop list of priorities (projects) based on assessment criteria, intervention levels and future investment strategies

Once initiatives have been implemented, performance should be monitored and assessed to review their impact. Safety strategies may require updating to reflect consequent changes to performance.

Jodi English