Traffic Management Report for 3 Abbott Road
Traffic Management Report for 3 Abbott Road
Prepared by
Nermein Loka
Director
Table of Contents
1. Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 3
2. Existing Conditions ................................................................................................................ 4
2.1. Existing Development..................................................................................................... 4
2.2. Public Transportations.................................................................................................... 4
2.3. Existing Road Conditions ............................................................................................... 6
3. Proposed Development ......................................................................................................... 7
4. Off Street Car Parking Provision ............................................................................................ 7
4.1. Car parking .................................................................................................................... 7
4.2. Bicycle Parking............................................................................................................... 8
5. Car Park and Driveway Layout .............................................................................................. 8
5.1. Driveway and Ramp Design ........................................................................................... 8
5.2. Dimensions of Parking Spaces ....................................................................................... 9
6. Traffic Flows and Volumes .................................................................................................. 11
6.1. Daily Traffic Data .......................................................................................................... 11
6.2. Traffic Survey ............................................................................................................... 12
6.3. Existing Road Service Level ......................................................................................... 13
6.4. Intersection Assessment .............................................................................................. 15
7. Traffic Generation................................................................................................................ 16
8. Swept Path Analysis ............................................................................................................ 20
9. Conclusion .......................................................................................................................... 20
Appendix A Architectural Plan ………………………………………………………………………….21
Appendix B Sidra Intersection Analysis…………………………………………………………………23
Appendix C Swept Path Analysis …………………...…………………………………………………27
1. Introduction
Loka Consulting Engineers Pty Ltd has been engaged by Kennedy Associates Architects to provide
a Traffic Management Plan for the site at 3 Abbott Road, Artarmon, NSW (refer to Figure 1-1 and
Figure 1-2) within Willoughby City Council for D.A. stage.
A Traffic Management Plan and Report is required for the proposed development to identify the
impacts of the proposal on the local street network and mitigation measures required to ameliorate
any impacts. This includes:
2. Existing Conditions
[Link] Development
The current site is approximately 1538.7 m2 and it has one existing vacant childcare centre with
two driveways entry and exit from Abbott Road.
[Link] Transportations
The area is connected to public transport, with bus and train stations located in close proximity to
the site.
1. It takes 3 minutes walking (220m) from the site to Hampden Rd at Jersey Rd bus stop (refer
to Figure 2-1).
2. It takes 4 minutes walking (350m) from the site to Artarmon Station train stop (refer to Figure
2-2).
Table 2-1 shows the bus and train line names; routes and the time between two successive trips.
Refer to Transport NSW for accurate details.
Stop Line Route Weekday Weekday Weekend Weekend
No. Name hours interval hours interval
N90 City Town Hall to Hornsby 01:54- 60 min 01:54- 60 min
1 via Chatswood 04:54 04:54
N91 Bondi Junction to 01:23- 50 min 01:23- 50 min
Macquarie Park via City 05:13 05:13
Town Hall (Night Service)
T1 Berowra to City via 04:30- 10 min 04:30- 10 min
2 Gordon 00:53 00:38
T9 Hornsby to North Shore 05:17- 15 min 05:24- 15 min
via City 01:27 01:37
Table 2-1 Bus and train line, route, and time
Figure 2-1 Site to Hampden Rd at Jersey Rd bus stop (Source Google maps)
Figure 2-2 Site to Artarmon Station train stop (Source Google maps)
There is one proposed vehicular crossing to the site from Abbott Road
Abbott Road
Abbott Road is a local road and not classified by Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW).
Abbott Road is approximately 9 metres wide with kerbs and gutters on both sides. it provides
linkage from McMillan Road to Jersey Road. It has an undivided travel lane in one direction with
kerbside parking on both sides.
Jersey Road
Jersey Road is a local road and not classified by TfNSW.
Jersey Road is approximately 12 metres wide with kerbs and gutters on both sides. It has a divided
travel lane in for both directions with total 4 lanes and kerbside parking on both sides.
McMillan Road
McMillan Road is a local road and not classified by TfNSW.
McMillan Road is approximately 9 metres wide with kerbs and gutters on both sides. It has an
undivided travel lane in one direction with kerbside parking on both sides.
3. Proposed Development
The proposed development will facilitate the construction of a residential flat building development
consisting of one basement level primarily for car parking with entry from Abbott Road, ground floor
level and 2 upper levels with a total of 12 units.
The subject development is proposed to be under Affordable Rental Housing SEPP 2021. Since
the development is proposed by a social housing provider, the car parking requirement and
summary are shown in Table 4-1 to 4-3.
Required minimum parking spaces for the proposed development is shown in Table 3-3.
It’s provided 8 residential parking spaces including 3 accessible parking spaces and 3 LHA gold
parking spaces.
The design complies with the requirement from SEPP (2021).
The architectural plan of the proposed development has been prepared Kennedy Associates
Architects and is attached in Appendix A.
The design of the driveway, internal roadways & ramps, and car parking spaces must comply with
Australian Standards; details are shown in the ground floor architectural plan. Table 5-1 and Table
5-2 assess the compliance of the site to Australian Standard.
Ramp grade Longer than 20m – 1:5 Flat grade @ 2.5m The design is
maximum. 5% @ 7.1m complied with AS
Up to 20m long – 1:4 Flat grade @ 5.4m 2890.1
maximum.
Transition grade no
more than 1:8.
Changes of grade no
more than 1:8.
Note: 300mm
clearance on both side
when there is a high
kerb or barrier on both
sides.
Headroom 2.2m min between the Head clearance with slab The design is
floor and an overhead thickness & mechanical complied with AS
obstruction. services is shown 4.12m 2890.1
The design of the car parking spaces should be in compliance with AS 2890.1.
As required in AS 2890.1:2004, a triangular area with 2.5m (face to driveway) by 2.0m (face to
street) will be kept clear of obstructions to visibility (Refer to Figure 4-1).
Figure 5-1 AS 2890.1:2004 requirement
In accordance with AS 2890.1:2004, sight triangle is hatched in red and shown in the following
Figure 5-2.
Road and Maritime Service (RMS) collect traffic volume information from roadside traffic collection
devices across the NSW network.
From RMS’s average daily traffic volume map the nearest traffic counting station is station ID 33023
at 70m South of Sunnyside Crescent, Castlecrag 2068 located approximately 3.6 km East North of
the subject site.
Subject Site
From the counts undertaken at Station ID 33023 in 2022 average daily traffic account of 14,886
vehicles Northbound and 13,764 vehicles southbound were counted on average per day passing
across Eastern Valley Way.
[Link] Survey
Traffic Counts were undertaken during the morning and afternoon peak periods to gauge the
performance of the current road system.
Traffic Survey is performed by Trans Traffic Survey PTY LTD on Wednesday 7th of December,
2022 in the morning between 7:00am to 9:00am and in the afternoon between 4:00pm to 6:00pm
at two (2) locations:
• Connection at Abbott Rd. & McMillan Rd.
• T-junction at Abbott Rd. & Jersey Rd.
The full result of the traffic analysis is summarised in Figure 6-3 to 6-6 below.
Figure 6-3 Traffic Survey at Abbott Rd. - McMillan Rd. Wednesday
The capacity of the urban road is generally determined by the capacity of intersections. Table 4.3
and 4.4 of the RMS’s ‘Guide to Traffic Generating Developments’ provide guidance on mid-block
capacities for urban roads and likely levels of service. The tables are reproduced below.
A 200 900
B 380 1400
C 600 1800
D 900 2200
E 1400 2800
Abbott Road
Based on the traffic analysis and roadside environment (occasional parked cars), it is considered
that Abbott Road operates within the mid-block capacity for an urban road with interrupted flow.
Abbott Road is currently functioning at a level of service B in peak hour conditions (at maximum
240 vehicles in one lane at peak hour).
The RMS guide states a service level B, ‘This level is in the zone of stable flow and drivers still
have reasonable freedom to select their desired speed and to manoeuvre within the traffic
stream, although the general level of comfort and convenience is little less than that of the level of
Service A.’
McMillan Road
Based on the traffic analysis and roadside environment (occasional parked cars), it is considered
that McMillan Road operates within the mid-block capacity for an urban road with interrupted flow.
McMillan Road is currently functioning at a level of service B in peak hour conditions (at maximum
244 vehicles in one lane at peak hour).
The RMS guide states a service level B, ‘This level is in the zone of stable flow and drivers still
have reasonable freedom to select their desired speed and to manoeuvre within the traffic
stream, although the general level of comfort and convenience is little less than that of the level of
Service A.’
Jersey Road
Based on the traffic analysis and roadside environment (occasional parked cars), it is considered
that Jersey Road operates within the mid-block capacity for an urban road with interrupted flow.
Jersey Road is currently functioning at a level of service A in peak hour conditions (at maximum
221 vehicles in two lane at peak hour).
The RMS guide states a service level A, ‘This, the top level is a condition of free flow in which
individual drivers are virtually unaffected by the presence of others in the traffic stream. Freedom
to select desired speeds and to manoeuvre within the traffic stream is extremely high, and the
general level of comfort and convenience provided is excellent.’
[Link] Assessment
The existing intersection operating performance of the surveyed intersection for the weekday
morning and afternoon peak hours were assessed using the SIDRA software package (version 7.0)
to determine the Degree of Saturation (DS), Average Delay (AVD in seconds) and Level of Service
(LoS).
The Average Vehicle Delay (AVD) provides a measure of the operational performance of an
intersection as indicated below, which relates AVD to LOS. The AVD’s should be taken as a guide
only as longer delays could be tolerated in some locations (i.e., inner city conditions) and on some
roads (i.e. minor side street intersecting with a major arterial route). For traffic signals, the average
delay over all movements should be taken. For roundabouts and priority control intersections (sign
control) the critical movement for level of service assessment should be that movement with the
highest average delay.
The degree of saturation (DS) is another measure of the operational performance of individual
intersections. For intersections controlled by traffic signals, both queue length and delay increase
rapidly as DS approaches 1. It is usual to attempt to keep DS to less than 0.9. Degrees of Saturation
in the order of 0.7 generally represent satisfactory intersection operation. When DS exceed 0.9
queues can be anticipated.
The full SIDRA outputs are presented in the Appendix B for the existing conditions as well as
proposed conditions.
7. Traffic Generation
RMS guidelines are based on an extensive survey of a wide range of land uses.
The existing site is a vacant childcare centre.
The subject site is residential (12 units in total)
Identified as medium density residential flat building.
Rates.
Smaller units and flats (up to two bedrooms):
Daily vehicle trips = 4-5 per dwelling
Weekday peak hour vehicle trips = 0.4-0.5 per dwelling.
Larger units and town houses (three or more bedrooms):
Daily vehicle trips = 5.0-6.5 per dwelling
Weekday peak hour vehicle trips = 0.5-0.65 per dwelling.
For the proposed development there are 12 small units in total. Therefore, there is a traffic
generation potential of approximately 6 vehicles per hour during peak periods.
The future vehicle trips should be discounted by the existing trips to evaluate the net increase in
traffic generation due to the proposed development. This is shown in Table 5-1.
Vacant 1 existing
Existing - 0
Childcare
Net +6.0
Table 7-1 Traffic generation for future and existing development net Increase in peak hour
According to the Table above, it is likely that the proposed development will result in a change in
the traffic generation by approximately 6 additional vehicle trips/hr during weekday peak hour
from Monday to Friday.
+5 +1
+1
+3
+2
Figure 7-1 traffic generated by the proposed development at evening peak hour
(Assuming 80% of the residential traffic generation will exit the development at morning peak hour)
+1 +5
+5
+1
Figure 7-2 traffic generated by the proposed development at evening peak hour
(Assuming 80% of the residential traffic generation will enter the development at evening peak hour)
Figure 7- 3: level of service pre and post development at Abbott Road – McMillan Road in morning peak hours
Figure 7- 4: level of service pre and post development at Abbott Road – McMillan Road in evening peak hours
Figure 7- 5: level of service pre and post development at Abbott Road – McMillan Road in morning peak hours
Figure 7- 6: level of service pre and post development at Abbott Road – McMillan Road in morning peak hours
8. Swept Path Analysis
To ensure all vehicles enter and exit the site in a forward direction, swept path analysis has been
conducted in the Appendix C.
It is our opinion that the proposed car parking and driveway comply with Australia Standard.
9. Conclusion
This traffic impact assessment has been prepared in accordance with the requirement of the
RMS ‘Guide to Traffic Generating Developments’.
Traffic Generation by the development does not affect the level of service at all intersections.
The site is located within public bus and train transportation. This would minimize the need for
staff and visitors of the proposed development to drive their own vehicles to and from their
various activities.
The Traffic Management Report concludes that the proposed residential development is suitable
in relation to internal traffic according to AS2890 and is suitable for the subject location in relation
to the impact of traffic.
APPENDIX A
Architectural Plan
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KENNEDY ASSOCIATES ARCHITECTS 3 ABBOTT ROAD, ARTARMON LEVEL -01 BASEMENT 2205 - DA-06 - P17
level 3 / 1 booth street annandale 2038
nominated architect - anthony nolan - 6773 date:
p + 61 2 9557 6466
16/12/22 PRELIMINARY
APPENDIX B
Sidra Intersection Analysis
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room
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electrical
motorcycle
850 clear
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crossfall max 1:40 RL / 85795
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room
fire pump room
electrical
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850 clear
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850 clear
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rise 245
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1
crossfall max 1:40 RL / 85795
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