RFI - E - Traffic Impact Statement

                                                                                singular driveway and the associated vehicle
                                                                                movements can be found in Attachment 3.
O11 - Access and egress points do      S11.1 Vehicle manoeuvring areas are      Complies with Specific Outcome
not impact on the safety and           provided in accordance with Australian   The generation as a result of the development
operations of the road system.         Standards for Off-street Carparking so   would be equivalent to 0.85 standard vehicle
                                       vehicles enter and leave the site in a   trips per dwelling within the weekday peak hours,
                                       forward gear.                            as per the RTA Guide to Traffic Generating
                                                                                Developments. As the proposed site allows for 2
                                                                                dwellings, this would equate to approximately ~2
                                                                                vehicles generated by the site during peak
                                                                                periods, spread across the two driveways. This
                                                                                would not impact the road network and would
                                                                                approximate as 1 vehicle movement per
                                                                                driveway in the peak, which is negligible in terms
                                                                                of impact on the network.

                                                                                These swept paths indicate the safety of these
                                                                                movements with the appropriate clearance to
                                                                                any obstructions as shown in TTM Drawing
                                                                                20BRT0181-01. Given this is the typical nature of
                                                                                driveway movements throughout Australia, the
                                                                                safety of road users is not impacted by the
                                                                                development.



   iii.      Transport, Roads and Drainage Code:

Specific Outcomes                      Probable Solutions                       TTM Response/Justification
O4 Development access does not         No solution provided.                    Complies with Specific Outcome
compromise the functions of                                                     Given Margit Crescent’s classification as a local
particular roads as indicated in the                                            road in an urban environment, the standard of
road hierarchy, and does not                                                    service for the road would be that of under 1000
adversely impact on the safety,                                                 vehicles per day. Given there is no propensity for
capacity and operations of the                                                  vehicles to ‘rat-run’ past the site given the need
road system.                                                                    to effectively give-way at intersections at the
                                                                                entrance and exit as opposed to Ventura Street
                                                                                which is continuous in the vicinity, the existing
                                                                                users of the road would be that of the residents
                                                                                of Margit Crescent itself.
                                                                                Given there are approximately 50 dwellings
                                                                                serviced by Margit Crescent, even If a
                                                                                conservative rate of 1vph per dwelling is
                                                                                assumed for the peak hour traffic generation on-
                                                                                street, the 95th percentile probability of this
                                                                                being of any impact to other vehicles by a
                                                                                resident using this assumed 20 second reversing
                                                                                manoeuvre from the driveway is less than 1
                                                                                vehicle. This indicates that in more than 95% of
                                                                                scenarios whereby a vehicle is performing this
                                                                                manoeuvre, it will have no bearing on other
                                                                                vehicles using Margit Crescent. It can be assumed
                                                                                that this would be even lower given the
                                                                                distribution of vehicles to either end of Margit
                                                                                Crescent. As such, the existing road and the
                                                                                safety of users would not be compromised by
                                                                                this development.