Okay, so we will be the first to admit that we have been too busy these last few years cranking out good work to post much news. We have been doing some really great things and we would love to tell everyone about it. Maybe 2024 is the year for posting more news? We have some really positive announcements coming up soon so please watch this space for more updates.
In the meantime, we have taken the time to share some candid shots of the L5D team over the last few years. Enjoy! We were very pleased to be able to present to delegates at the Institute of Public Works Engineering WA (IPWEA) Conference last week on our successes with promoting and facilitating the use of sustainable recycled materials in rail projects in Western Australia. IPWEA provides an excellent forum to share information among industry and it was great to see such a large turnout at this session. Lots of great questions also...
If you would like to find out more about what we have been doing, then please contact us. A copy of the presentation slides that we presented on the day can be accessed by clicking on the image below. State Conference 2024. Collaborate, Innovate, Celebrate.
We’re proud to support the IPWEA Conference next week! 7th-8th March, 2024 @ The Esplanade, Fremantle. Click here for the full program. Our team at Level5Design were pleased to support Austroads again last year in the development of an Extended Austroads Vehicle Classification Scheme for Australia and New Zealand. Safe, efficient, and sustainable transport relies on the accurate classification and identification of vehicles operating on our road and pathway networks. More information on the scheme is contained in the recently published report ‘Background to the Extended Austroads Vehicle Classification Scheme for Traffic and Transport Surveys.’ The report details the research undertaken for the extended Austroads vehicle classification scheme to improve understanding and monitoring of the evolving vehicle mix on roads in Australia and New Zealand. The report proposes an extended scheme that provides greater granularity in the existing 12 classes. It also provides a new class for active transport to address the need to count people walking and using mobility devices, wheelchairs, and scooters.
The extended vehicle classification scheme will enable the Austroads member agencies to:
The changes to the vehicle classification scheme include:
We are pleased to announce that we will be working to support Austroads over the next year to deliver best practice guidance on heavy vehicle rest area (HVRA) facilities by updating the Austroads guidelines for Australia and NZ and improving the availability of data on rest area utilisation. We will be:
- Reviewing and incorporating best practice learnings to enhance both the strategic direction and the planning and design concepts of the guidelines. - Confirming the Strategic principles underpinning the Guidelines are reflective of Austroads members’ current and emerging priorities for heavy vehicle networks. - Ensuring the currency of references made in the Guidelines, such as AS1742.6:2014 Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices: Tourist and Services Signs. - Ensuring the strategic direction of the Guidelines is consistent with evolving fatigue management legislation and regulations. - Developing options to support and inform providers, other than road managers, around opportunities to provide heavy vehicle rest areas (such as in towns and at commercial facilities), including recommendations that Planning regulations set minimum standards for new HVRAs. - Incorporating case studies to support (1) users to develop complementary state and or local strategic policy documents, (2) planning and design concepts and (3) support communication and engagement with interested parties. - Ensuring the Guidelines provide recommendations which consider the needs of a diverse workforce when accessing heavy vehicle rest areas. This could increase the available driver pool, and potentially alleviate driver shortages. - Ensuring that the design specifications for heavy vehicle rest areas are reflective of the evolving fleet, including newly designed vehicles, low and zero emission vehicles, dangerous goods vehicles and oversize and overmass vehicles. - Summarising information sources available for road managers (including telematics and other technologies) on the location and attributes of rest areas and utilisation of heavy vehicle parking spaces in real-time. - Devising options to provide a data source for road managers and the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator to share with the heavy vehicle industry. - Determining the requirements of a service to provide road managers with insights into the use of rest areas to inform planning and investment decisions using data collected from vehicles in the National Telematics Framework and other sources. We are very pleased to be supporting Austroads in developing a new national vehicle classification scheme. As part of this process, we are pleased to support Austroads in the delivery of 3 upcoming Webinars on the Austroads Classification Scheme elements. More details are given below. The link to all three Webinars can be found in the detailed descriptions. Our very own Drew Gaynor will be leading the sessions. Upcoming Webinar: Austroads Vehicle Classification Scheme – Heavy Vehicles - 25 October 2023
Austroads has developed an extended vehicle classification scheme (EVCS) to enable improved understanding and monitoring of the evolving vehicle mix on Australian and New Zealand roads in traffic and transport surveys. This webinar is the first session in a three-webinar series. This builds upon the existing 1994 vehicle classification scheme. The EVCS provides greater granularity for each of the existing 12 classes of vehicles and adds a new class for active transport to address the need to count a variety of active transport users such as pedestrians, skateboards and e-scooters. The EVCS will allow transport agencies to better manage transport demand within and between modes, survey active transport and understand how demands integrate with other modes. This webinar will focus on the heavy vehicle section and discuss:
Upcoming Webinar: Austroads Vehicle Classification Scheme – Light Vehicles - 2 November 2023 Austroads has developed an extended vehicle classification scheme (EVCS) to enable improved understanding and monitoring of the evolving vehicle mix on Australian and New Zealand roads in traffic and transport surveys. This webinar is the second session in a three-webinar series. This builds upon the existing 1994 vehicle classification scheme. The EVCS provides greater granularity for each of the existing 12 classes of vehicles and adds a new class for active transport to address the need to count a variety of active transport users such as pedestrians, skateboards and e-scooters. The EVCS will allow transport agencies to better manage transport demand within and between modes, survey active transport and understand how demands integrate with other modes. This webinar will focus on the changes to light vehicles and discuss:
Upcoming Webinar: Austroads Vehicle Classification Scheme – Measuring Active Transport - 9 November 2023 Austroads has developed an extended vehicle classification scheme (EVCS) to enable improved understanding and monitoring of the evolving vehicle mix on Australian and New Zealand roads in traffic and transport surveys. This webinar is the third session in a three-webinar series. This builds upon the existing 1994 vehicle classification scheme. The EVCS provides greater granularity for each of the existing 12 classes of vehicles and adds a new class for active transport to address the need to count a variety of active transport users such as pedestrians, skateboards and e-scooters. The EVCS will allow transport agencies to better manage transport demand within and between modes, survey active transport and understand how demands integrate with other modes. This webinar will focus on measuring active transport and discuss:
We had our 5-year anniversary on 13 March 2023. Thanks to everyone that has contributed to our success along the way! We got busy quickly doing some great things and it has been full steam ahead ever since...
L5D is one of the leading advisers on parking in Australia. Over the past few years, we have increasing been requested to help local government with specialist advice. This includes undertaking parking technology reviews, developing parking precinct plans, preparing parking cash-in-lieu policies and parking strategies, and undertaking parking feasibility studies. Some of the local governments that we have been working with recently include:
- City of Stirling - City of Vincent - City of Armadale - Gold Coast City - City of Rockingham - City of South Perth - The Rural City of Horsham - The City of Swan - The City of Canning We have also provided Masterclass training in parking operations, design and planning to staff from a large number of local governments throughout Australia. Level5Design are proud sponsors of IPWEA (WA) and were pleased to take a prominent role at the state conference this month. One of the more interesting presentations was by the Commissioner for Fire and Emergency Services, Darren Klemm AFSM.
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AuthorPeter Damen is the Principal and Managing Director of Level 5 Design, a specialist advisory and design consultancy dedicated to achieving valuable innovative outcomes for its customers in the rapidly evolving transport technology and infrastructure planning and design spaces. Archives
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