ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the meaning of short-term transport planning and describes various measures that can be implemented. The measures are wide-ranging, but three Canberra case studies are included to illustrate this type of planning. They are the planning of an area traffic control scheme, bus priority measures and the Canberra Short Term Transport Planning Study, which is an example of the application of behavioural travel-demand models in transport policy analysis. The ultimate aim is exclusive pedestrian streets or malls, but, in practice, delivery vehicles and emergency vehicles are given access, and in some schemes a further compromise is made to introduce buses and taxis. Area traffic control is essentially the method by which vehicular and pedestrian conflicts at road intersections are reduced to as low a level as possible. Planning for a traffic control scheme in a study area involves determining the number and location of signalised intersections to be co-ordinated and best way of linking and setting signals.
