The challenges of managing traffic during construction for the one-way system Maarof-Semantan interchange of western Kuala Lumpur traffic dispersal scheme project.

The Western Traffic Dispersal Scheme (WTDS) project is an important road system, which provides the necessary dispersion of traffic in the western part of Kuala Lumpur. Typically the 8.5 kilometre long Jalan Damansara generates about 165,000 vehicles per day. As such careful planning and coordination was required to achieve minimum disturbance to the road user whilst maintaining the same level of service. As a counter measure to mitigate this arising issue, an alternative proposal was made to convert the current two-way traffic flow into a one-way traffic system forming one big single roundabout. The realisation of this new one-way traffic system involved 4 stages of traffic management during construction that will follow through until construction works completed which will be described in this paper. This new one-way traffic system provides more construction space that eases construction complexity with better managed traffic system that increases capacity of the road system by two fold once completed and will be able to cater for future development of DCC. (Author/publisher) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E208431.