Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify existing and potential pedestrian movements
- New and planned developments are designed to provide for future pedestrian movements.
- Complaints, requests, comments and observations are analysed to identify problems, risks and concerns.
- Records and statistics are monitored to identify trends.
- Research is undertaken to collect evidence on the movement of pedestrians.
- Identify current ability of infrastructure to facilitate safe pedestrian movement
- Current infrastructure is investigated to clearly establish conditions that affect the safe movement of pedestrians.
- Identified problems and concerns are compared and assessed against legislative requirements, constraints, codes of practice, relevant Australian standards and community expectations.
- Clear priorities based on a ranking of safety factors are established.
- Assess and evaluate the options for the safe movement of pedestrians
- Prepare initial plan or report of the preferred option
- A submission to council is made in accordance with requirements to gain in principle support.
- Opportunities are provided for community consultation to maximise acceptance of preferred options.
- Statutory and other relevant authority approvals are obtained in required time frames with minimal modification to the preferred option.
- Clear, concise documentation is prepared that provides full preliminary cost details.
- Prepare a detailed design
- Regular and clear communication with design personnel is undertaken to ensure preferred option objectives are met.
- Design personnel are advised of implementation time frames to ensure detail design is completed as required.
- Design development is monitored to completion.
- A safety design audit is undertaken.
- Final detailed cost estimates are accurately prepared.
- Monitor the design for safe movement of pedestrians
- Design is recommended to the construction program.
- Affected parties are advised to minimise disruption and inform of changes.
- Education and awareness programs are conducted in accordance with specific group needs.
- Implementation of program is monitored over agreed time frame.
- Records and statistics are monitored to measure the effectiveness of the program.