Standards: Difference between revisions

From West Cambridge Active Travel (WCAT)
Jump to navigationJump to search
(Re-order and add filtered permeability guide.)
Line 9: Line 9:
This is good, particularly for its definition of the cycle design vehicle and its ruling out of the use of chicanes etc.
This is good, particularly for its definition of the cycle design vehicle and its ruling out of the use of chicanes etc.


== [https://cityinfinity.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/filtered-permeability-guidance-v2.pdf Making Streets Better:
== [https://cityinfinity.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/filtered-permeability-guidance-v2.pdf Making Streets Better: A Guide To Filtered Permeability by City Infinity] ==
A Guide To Filtered Permeability by City Infinity] ==


== Other notes on good design ==
== Other notes on good design ==

Revision as of 10:30, 11 April 2018

To help develop University Transport Strategy we need to determine what standards and guidance on active transport infrastructure are good. Some standards are substantially deficient and others have good bits and bad bits, blindly following them can result in some poor designs.

Good standards

Making Space for Cycling

This is good.

IAN 195/16 Cycle traffic and the strategic road network

This is good, particularly for its definition of the cycle design vehicle and its ruling out of the use of chicanes etc.

Making Streets Better: A Guide To Filtered Permeability by City Infinity

Other notes on good design

  • Never use chicanes, only bollards, and those only where necessary. Bollards should be flexible, visible, and placed only on straight sections and not within one design vehicle length (2.8m) of junctions or corners or 1.5m of any other fixed object.

Bad standards

Design Portfolio B.08 Access and Speed Controls

This is old and deficient mostly consisting of bad practice and while the text says "don't do these things" people do those things.

Local Transport Note 2/08: Cycle Infrastructure Design

This is old and while it has good bits it also has examples of bad design, such as Figures 8.6, 8.7 and 8.8.