The team liased with the Road Authority, OVGA, Council and Statutory Planning Authority regarding vehicle access and transport strategy, to ensure appropriate access from multiple road interfaces.

Traffix Group provided design services, traffic impact assessment, traffic analysis, parking analysis and assistance with public realm planning including reconfiguration of two local streets.

Our relationships with Council and overall technical ability improved the access arrangements for not only this site, bus was of benefit to the wider area.

The considerations included passenger movement and amenity, vehicle access, parking for private cars, taxis and hire cars, vehicle circulation including freeway access, public transport and cycle access, commercial and freight transport access.

Specific consideration was given to staged ground transport upgrade requirements for the airport and its precinct developments into the future.

Challenges with this project included balancing competing long term and short term demands for parking, consolidation of former parking strategies into a single cohesive document including targeted analysis to justify recommendations, establishing appropriate boundaries for the parking overlays to apply, preparation of draft Planning Scheme Amendment documentation necessary to seek Ministerial Authorisation and responding to submissions in relation to exhibited documentation.

The Planning Scheme Amendment was adopted, and the reduced car parking rates and cash-in-lieu mechanism is now included at Clause 45.09 of the Latrobe Planning Scheme.

Our initial review of traffic and car parking conditions in and around the school resulted in a ‘moving queue’ drop-off and pick-up facility within the school.

We then provided traffic engineering input into the master plan for the school’s planned expansion.

Challenges with this project included responding to existing site constraints and opportunities, establishing a hierarchy of streets, pedestrian and cycle paths, managing the traffic impacts in the context of the adjacent arterial road network including changed traffic distributions across the broader network due to the imminent construction of a second Echuca-Moama bridge crossing and provision for future public transport routes.

The Master Plan envisages an unprecedented transformation of structures and built form within the Senior Campus associated with relocating Year 7 & 8 students to the Campus. The project includes creation of new car parking facilities underneath the Chapel Oval and modifications to vehicle access to/from the site and surrounding road network.

Traffix Group assisted the project team in the preparation of a transport impact assessment to accompany the Master Plan application and continue to provide ongoing transport design and engineering services, including construction traffic management advice.