ABSTRACT
Many traffic and transport issues are location-specific and therefore have a localised impact, but collectively they all add up and amount to a metropolitan-wide problem. Local area transport planning aims to supplement those planning activities at the wider, urban scale. Local area planning is characterised by either proposals for entirely new developments or solutions for the existing urban fabric which are restricted in their areal extent—from individual sites up to residential neighbourhoods. Parking is also local area problem and planning for parking in city centres and residential areas is considered. The chapter explains the traffic effects of proposed developments. It describes the planning and design concepts for streets and cycle paths in residential areas. Pedestrian traffic is far more fluid and adaptive than vehicular traffic, and for this reason pedestrian facilities have been designed intuitively or have resulted more or less as byproducts from the formal architectural layouts of buildings.
