The total freight task in Australia is expected to increase significantly over the next 15 years, in urban areas and inter-urban corroders. This substantial growth in truck traffic, together with increasing congestion in large urban centres, could necessitate more night time and week-end truck operations. Increased night time truck movements invariably increase adverse environmental and amenity impacts including, noise, vibration, dust, air quality as well as potential spillage from dangerous goods. This paper reviews measures that are suitable for managing the access of trucks and their environmental impacts. These measures include: appropriate land use regulation, access management through the implementation of different classes of road or routes for trucks, employment of signal coordination and other intelligent transport systems (ITS), parking and loading control, and truck bans. This paper also proposes an impact management framework to match traffic and access management measures to different road classes and vehicle types, and for different time periods of a day. The benefits of such a framework include the availability of a harmonised and consistent set of guidelines/rules across all roads in a State (national, state and local government roads). (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E214938.
Samenvatting