In 2014 Austroads commissioned Sustainable Transport Consultants Pty Ltd to undertake a project to provide guidance to practitioners on the design of bicycle wayfinding schemes. This project seeks to improve the guidance necessary to achieve a consistent approach to bicycle wayfinding schemes in Australia. This guidance would be considered in future updates to relevant Austroads Guides including the Guide to Traffic Management. The project required the consultants to investigate all aspects of signposting, road marking and other wayfinding aids which could be used in a range of situations including: * Urban cycling networks; * Tourism routes and trails; and, * Other relevant cycling environments. A key aim of the project is to provide guidance to facilitate improved bicycling directional signs thus enabling bicycle riders to better navigate cycle networks. Improvement of bicycle wayfinding is considered important for practitioners as it will assist them to deliver environmentally sustainable transport objectives. The project is documented in two separate project reports: 1. Literature review of current guidance internationally and for Australia and New Zealand (ANZ); and this, 2. Research Report which applies the key findings and recommendations of the literature review and recommends changes to the current standards and guidelines for cycling directional signs. The literature review produced extensive evidence of a wide range of different approaches to cycling directional signs. These are reviewed in Section 2 of this report. In Section 3, these issues and other relevant findings of the literature review are evaluated against current practice with recommendations for inclusion of new and revised sign standards and guidance in AS1742.9, AS1743 and Austroads Guide to Traffic Management Part 10: Traffic Control and Communication Devices. These recommendations are provides as Appendices A to C of this report. For the literature review, see https://www.onlinepublications.austroads.com.au/items/AP-R493-15 (Author/publisher)
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