Queensland state of practice overview for give-way controlled pedestrian road crossings

Author: Michael Langdon

Since give-way controlled raised pedestrian crossings were first successfully trialled in Brisbane in 2016, they have been implemented across the state. A Technical Guidance was published by TMR in 2019 documenting the ‘lessons learned’ from the trial and subsequent installations. Since that time there have been multiple installations across the state, some with varying interpretation of the guidelines. Practitioners have implemented the guidelines to suit their local needs, however, regularly request advice on which attributes are ‘essential’ and which are ‘desirable’ and what are the consequences of non-compliance. Currently some practitioners are concerned about implementing raised crossings on projects and are unaware that this treatment is being widely implemented across the state. Whilst there is some uniformity in the application of the TMR Technical Guidance, there are also some site-specific usage of the guidelines to suit their local needs.  

The aim of this project was to capture road design and road/path traffic operation attributes from existing raised crossings (state-wide) to run an analysis on the real-world operation as a function of the attributes to determine the impact on performance and the original design intent. The compendium of attributes and information that this project delivered will be used to demonstrate current practice in Queensland and provide practitioners with information on active installations in comparable locations to provide project assurance. 

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