Dear Stephen
I have to confess that I rarely look at Manual for Streets. However I recently organised a masterplanning seminar for colleagues within the planning authorities in Leicestershire who are currently planning Sustainable Urban Extensions to various towns within the county. The seminar started with a review of existing SUEs undertaken during the 20th Century, which identified extremes of road hierarchy as a major problem. Following this review we embarked upon workshop sessions that explored masterplanning solutions to a SUE proposed within the Charnwood district. It became clear that all good masterplans begin and end with a well connected highway network . If you and others reading this email want to come up to Leicester, I'd be more than happy to re-run the seminar and slide presentations etc if you think that might be useful.
Regards
>>> Stephen Marshall <[log in to unmask]> 04/06/2009 11:46 >>>
Dear all
Following Manual for Streets and other local streets-oriented design
guidance, where does this leave road hierarchy?
By road hierarchy I mean the conventional set of road types such as
Primary Distributor, District Distributor, Local Distributor, Access Road.
I am asking this list because it can be difficult to track how this
is actually used, through published documents, since a document may
not mention hierarchy explicitly, but it may still be applied in some
way. Or, even if mentioned in a document, it is not always clear how
practitioners actually use it, when designing a road network.
I am interested in hearing of any cases where:
(i) Road hierarchy is still used - even if not expressed explicitly
in documents - if so, how is it applied?
(ii) Road hierarchy has 'evolved' where there may be new road types
added over and above the basic set - if so, what are they?
(iii) There is more than one set of guidance coexisting (e.g.
conventional engineering guidance + urban design guidance) - if so,
is the relationship between the two clear and consistent, and how are
they actually applied in practice?
(iv) Urban design style street types are used, but are expected
(implicitly or explicitly) to correspond to levels in the
conventional hierarchy (e.g. a Boulevard may be equate with a
District Distributor; a Mews may be an Access Road) - if so, how
does this work?
(v) Road hierarchy is applied to the "higher levels" (e.g. trunk
roads, county roads) while the lower level use a range of labels
(e.g. access street, high street, etc.) - if so, how is the high/low
level split decided?
(vi) Road hierarchy is no longer used - if so, what if anything has
replaced it?
I would be interested in hearing of any examples of these instances,
and how they work, especially in the UK (e.g. local authority
practice), but also non-UK examples where the equivalent of road
hierarchy applies.
I will let the list know of any interesting results coming out of
this. This is part of an investigation into better integration /
articulation of road / street hierarchy / layout principles. This
research is part of the EPSRC funded project SOLUTIONS
(Sustainability Of Land Use and Transport in Outer NEighbourhoodS).
best wishes
Stephen
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