Neighbourhood road safety and amenity : a look at barriers to the Implementation of Local Area Traffic Management Schemes and Strategies to overcome these.

Two aims were established for the project: 1) to provide an information base on attitudes and other barriers to the implementation of speed control and LATM (local area traffic model) schemes in Western Sydney which the Office of Road Safety and other authorities can use in promoting such schemes; 2) to disseminate information on relevant research relating to speed control and LATM Schemes to elected local representatives within Western Sydney and to technical staff. Three specific objectives were established: 1) to identify the present experience of councils in Western Sydney with speed control devices and LATM Schemes; 2) to identify political, technical, attitudinal and resource problems councils are faced with in implementing speed control and LATM Schemes; and 3) to develop strategies targeted at overcoming these particular problems of implementation.