4 Key Elements of Construction Traffic Management and Planning

Construction traffic management and planning is a vital aspect of all development projects. By managing the movement of construction related trucks and pedestrians in the vicinity of the project site, traffic management services ensure that there are no mishaps at the site, and the least disturbance to the immediate human populace. During large scale development projects, vehicles such as articulated vehicles, powered mobile plants, forklifts, and cement mixers frequent the worksite, making it important to ensure uncongested movement. Planning and executing construction traffic management plans is an intricate process requiring expertise. To help you get a better understanding of the process, let us take a deeper look at four key elements of construction traffic management.

1. Separating Pedestrians from Vehicles

Essentially, pedestrian traffic must be separated from vehicles frequenting the project site, to ensure that there are no mishaps or injuries. Professional traffic management solutions comprise several control measures to achieve this segregation. The control measures include:

• Provisioning demarcated traffic routes and pedestrian exclusion zones, especially where powered mobile plant is operating.

• Creating vehicle exclusion zones for areas frequented by pedestrians, such as pedestrian entrances, amenities, and dining halls.

• Securing areas where heavy duty vehicles and powered mobile plants operate with pedestrian barriers, chains, tape, traffic control barricades, or bollards.

2. Minimising vehicle movement

Traffic management services create plans to minimise the movement of heavy construction vehicles around the project site. In addition, they limit the total number of vehicles that frequent the site, by creating designated storage areas. The storage areas act as the loading and unloading points for delivery vehicles. Subsequently, such vehicles don’t have to enter the actual construction site. Traffic management services also employ physical obstructions such as boom gates, and schedule work hours to regulate the number of construction related vehicles operating in the work site.

3. Keeping a tab on reversing vehicles

One key area of concern for road and traffic management services during large-scale construction projects, is the number of heavy vehicles undertaking reversing manoeuvres into and out of the construction site. Whilst trucks generally contain reversing warning systems, mirrors and cameras to assist drivers, traffic management control is typically required to ensure motorists and pedestrians are safely stopped whilst the reversing manoeuvres are undertaken (where permitted).

Traffic management personnel are also equipped with a safety vest and a stop-go baton to increase their visibility to all motorists and pedestrians.

4. Traffic Access and Parking Management for small vehicles

Traffic management services take care of small vehicles, construction vehicles and machinery around construction sites. They minimise vehicle activity around intensive pedestrian areas, by creating dedicated parking spaces for visitors’ and workers’ vehicles, outside the boundaries of the project site. They also conduct and demonstrate swept-path analysis for trucks so that they can negotiate the intersections whilst travelling to and from the project site and at the entry/exit points to the construction site. Management services also prepare strategies to ensure that no excavated soil and unloaded construction  material lie on the roads, blocking pedestrian traffic.

Wrapping Up

Professional traffic management services analyse and prepare effective solutions to monitor, manage, and minimise the activity of heavy construction machinery and pedestrians around the construction site. They also ensure that all workers are aware of the construction traffic management plan and abide by the instructions. EB Traffic Solutions is a reputable traffic management services provider in Melbourne and Sydney. We understand the criticality of your project and work with you to chart the best construction traffic management and planning. To learn more about our construction traffic management services or discuss your requirement, fill out our contact form and we’ll take it from there. You can also call us at 0408 395 729.