Traffic Management
Traffic Management | Car Park & Pedestrian Safety
Car Parks are usually low speed environments and may not immediately register as being a high-risk hazard area. However, many off road car parks, such as those provided by councils, private companies or service stations, often lack clear, visible signage and/or the necessary traffic calming measures.
When pedestrians and cars share zones, many motorists are blissfully unaware of how fast they are going.
Children, the disabled and the elderly are especially vulnerable sectors of the community liable to serious injury or even fatality.
To help in the control of traffic and ensure the safety of pedestrians, good safety provisions are needed and thankfully there are some really simple measures you can put in place to reduce the risk of accidents.
Install signage to indicate the safe direction and access to your premises while using calming devices such as speed humps to help everyone adhere to your sites posted speed limits.
Listed below are the Top 5 signs that your car park could be missing:
Stop & Give Way Signs
Stop and Give Way Signs are required where an access driveway meets a frontage roadway where there is no traffic signals or within a carpark at any intersecting roadway at which hazards could arise if traffic ‘right of way’ is not assigned.
Speed Limit Signs
Speed Limit Signs may be used to indicate the desired speed limit within a car park. The limit should approximate the average speed of drivers using the car park while also not being set unrealistically slow. To control excessive speeds Traffic Management devices such as Speed Humps should be used.
Pedestrian Crossing Sign
The Pedestrian Crossing Sign shall be used at or in the immediate vicinity of a Pedestrian Crossing (Zebra Crossing). Signs are to be erected on both sides of the roadway facing the approaching vehicles.
Shared Zone Signs
Shared Zones Signs are used specifically in areas where these is competing demands of pedestrians and vehicles which require a form of control which allows mobility whiles at the same time enhancing pedestrian safety. A shared zone speed limit of 10 km/h is usually considered appropriate.
Speed Hump Signs
This sign is used at a speed hump to indicate the upcoming hazard. They are also used if there is some doubt as to whether the hump will be visible in time for a driver to adequately slow down to negotiate it.